Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off From Their Publishers in Searches Due to AI Scraping
AI is destroying what is left of search, as Cloudflare plus big publishers implement the nuclear option of cutting off Google indexing.
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AI Investment Mania Has Begun to Percolate Through the Economy, and the Fed Has Begun to Fret About the Effects
AI dominated the Fed’s meeting as a driver of “persistent inflationary pressures” and demand growth.
Read more...Greenspan Ran the Fed for 18 Years and Left an Economic Time Bomb
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: take a hard look at Greenspan’s misrule at the Fed and find more not to like than you might know about
Read more...The Hypersociality Hypothesis
Can hypersociality help reconcile obvious elite stupidity with top-down conspiracy theories?
Read more...Why AI Doesn’t Think, Cannot Reason, Isn’t Intelligent and Will Never Achieve Consciousness
Rob Urie addresses common misperceptions regularly promoted by AI touts, of what AI can and cannot do.
Read more...Bank of International Settlements Warns That AI Crash Could Produce Investment Drought, Economic Contraction and Even a Crisis
The Bank of International Settlements took a look at the AI bubble. Not surprisingly, it found a lot not to like.
Read more...The Licensing Revolution: Windows Edition
Windows illustrates the growing reach of the surveillance and assertion of centralized software tools over supposedly personal devices.
Read more...How Bad is AI for the Environment?
A tally of the great planetary damage expected to result from AI growing use, thanks to its insatiable hunger for power.
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 Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills
Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
Read more...Removing AI Spyware From Your Google Account
Concrete steps on how to reduce your exposure to Google spying and unauthorized/uncompensated use of your information.
Read more...How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US
Big Tech elitists enlist AI for power grabs, from spying in our homes to profiting from militarism. Luckily, people are fighting back.
Read more...Silicon Valley’s AI Dreams Face a Blue-Collar Reality
AI energy needs are set to accelerate planetary damage, but in the meantime, they will generate a lot of blue-collar jobs.
Read more...Green Growth Claims Are Overstated – Our Study Shows Three Reasons Why
Conor here: Perhaps what the authors call “the holy grail of environmental policy” (economic growth with less emissions) needs a rethink. Sooner rather than later they’ll have no choice as global warming will do the job if conflicts don’t, and degrowth will be imposed on us one way or another. The European Central Bank, for […]
Read more...A New Epstein Island in Albania? Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s Zionist-Mafia-Linked Bunker Resort
A billionaire bunker in a notorious sex trafficking hub backed by Persian Gulf money, Zionists, Epstein pals, US spooks, and the mob. Does something smell fishy?
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