Even big fare hikes and cuts to driver pay have failed to produce profits at Uber. And these pricing changes are not likely to be sustainable.
Read more...Why the Italian right looks set to go from strength to strength.
Read more...A mental health break in the way of retrospective on Nichelle Nichols, particularly for readers who saw Star Trek in its original run.
Read more...No one, and I mean no one, is hearing from the Skripals despite a public inquiry into a seemingly related, apparent nerve agent death.
Read more...The Uber Files showUber’s bad conduct was deliberate, but miss that its poor economics meant Uber engaged in a confidence trick on society.
Read more...A bizarre scene of court chaos as a lawyer supposedly representing key witnesses, the Skripals, in an infamous poising case, plays very dumb.
Read more...A high level update on Russia v. Ukraine, since the mainstream media has taken to averting its eyes.
Read more...Perhaps not surprisingly, it’s possible to get books published about Putin based on accounts by spooks not in Russia when Putin was in office.
Read more...How the war against free speech is backfiring….but the perps keep pushing even harder.
Read more...What were the causes behind Grenfell Tower’s beautiful, smooth facade?
Read more...Our warning about a big Covid outbreak at CalPERS may not have produced any changs there, but it did lead other state agencies to shape up.
Read more...Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why Big Tech practices are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in.
Read more...America is divided against itself as never before. Some thoughts as to why.
Read more...A disingenuous defense of Twitter bots.
Read more...It’s becoming hard for the West to pretend that Russia will fail at its aims in Ukraine, most importantly, destroying its abilty to wage war.
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