‘Internet of Things’ Could Be an Unseen Threat to Elections
How more IoT = more messed up elections
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Right to Repair: Will the European Commission Have the Guts to Stand Up to Apple et al? Details on Wednesday…
European Commission to decide Wednesday whether to adopt a right to repair for smartphones as part of its Circular Economy Action Plan, to match what already exists for household appliances.
Read more...The Catherine Principle for Negotiating With the Turks – Let Arms Do the Talking
Why Catherine the Great’s lessons for dealing with Turks are still operative.
Read more...Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
Read more...Chief Justice John Roberts Denounces Chuck Schumer’s ‘Threatening’ Remarks About Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
Chuck Schumer channeled his inner Trump. The results were not pretty.
Read more...New MH17 Leak – Dutch Prosecutors Have Received No US Satellite Evidence of the Shoot-Down by a Buk Missile
Yves here. Helmer is still keeping tabs on MH17 developments. By John Helmer, Moscow. Twitter: @bears_with. Originally published at Dances With Bears A new document, leaked from the files of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in The Netherlands, reveals that Dutch prosecutors told the Australian, Belgian and Ukrainian representatives on the team, that the US […]
Read more...Banks and Landlords Have To Pick Up the Costs of the Pandemic To Come to Forestall a Depression
Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
Read more...Brexit: Pawing and Snorting
In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Read more...Super Tuesday Open Thread
Check in and opine as Super Tuesday results come in!
Read more...Tim Cook and Apple Bet the Farm on China, But Then Coronavirus Hit
WSJ examines the consequences of the decision by Apple to become so dependent on China – what looks to be a catastrophic mistake in the age of coronavirus.
Read more...Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...US Successfully Planned for the ‘Endless Frontier’ of Science Research in 1945 – Now It’s Time to Plan the Next 75 Years
Influence of Vannevar Bush and the Endless Frontier in Postwar science planning – US science for the next 75 years.
Read more...How the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Could Help Pay for #COVID-19 Treatment (and Lead to #MedicareForAll)
Some refreshingly lateral thinking….
Read more...Porkfest! Tallying How Much the Pentagon Really Costs
Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
Read more...Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
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