The Global Food Crisis
A hard look at the possible severity of the coming global food crisis and how it demands new approaches to analysis and decisions.
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Latest Chapter in Long-Running Kentucky Retirement Systems Case: Attorney General, Acting on Behalf of Private Equity Kingpins, Throws Legal Mud at Wall to See if Enough Will Stick to Confuse Judge Wingate
An update on the latest twists and turns in the astonishingly long-running Kentucky Retirement Systems case.
Read more...Good Riddance, Alan Greenspan
Cataloguing some of the less-well recognized ways that Alan Greenspan did tremendous harm to the financial system and citizens at large.
Read more...How Polling Failures, Gambling Legalization and Political Gridlock Paved the Way for the Explosive Rise of Prediction Markets
In the opinion of this humble blogger, prediction markets epitomize what is wrong with modern society. l
Read more...The Epistemic Break of the Iran War
The Iran War is shattering the U.S. illusion of power, breaking truths that are being replaced by AI models and creating an epistemic collapse
Read more...The Epstein Files as a Weapon in the Conflict Over Currency and the “Central Domain”
What the Epstein scandal reveals about the conflict for digital sovereignty, currency and the shift between Carl Schmitt’s ‘central domains’
Read more...New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System
The NYC transit authority considers how AI with its existing cameras might detect weapons, monitor unattended items or even foresee stampedes.
Read more...‘Emotional Loading’: Decoding the Media Coverage of the Bondi Beach Shooting
‘Emotional loading’ is a technique used in the coverage of Bondi Beach to shape the narrative and sideline critical analysis
Read more...Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis
Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind.
Read more...Could an AI Have Suggested that the Earth Is Not at the Centre of the Universe?
Deviant thinking is on the decline as AI mirrors consensus instead of challenging it, making us more homogeneous and complacent toward power.
Read more...Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis
Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.
Read more...If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be?
The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?
Read more...Stablecoins Could Crash Our Economy
Finance loves to dress old risks in new language and call them innovation.
Read more...Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.
Read more...Is Price Fixing Protected by the First Amendment?
RealPage continues ugly post-Citizens United trend, and provides more evidence that the Democrat Abundance enthusiasts are full of hot air.
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