Satyajit Das: The Modern ‘Share the Scraps’ Economy
A clinical look at the extractive behavior that all that share, erm, sharing economy talk obscures.
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Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
Less capital, more risk. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.
Read more...Manure-to-Energy Project Touted as Climate Fix Emits Thousands of Tons of Methane
Manure digesters for cattle are yet another rentier-enriching climate con.
Read more...Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Read more...Autonomous AI Agents Have an Ethics Problem
AI digital assistants not only do complex tasks on their own, but also lie and scheme. Who takes responsibility when they cause harm?
Read more...Even Patients Are Shocked by the Prices Their Insurers Will Pay — And It Costs All of Us
The bad incentives that lead health insurers not to balk overmuch at outrageous hospital charges.
Read more...Is That New Procedure Proven? MedTech Billing Codes and Evidence-Based Medicine
How Category III CPT codes for new procedures became entangled in a politically driven, zero-sum reimbursement game, to patient detriment.
Read more...Do You Trust Epstein Elite With Nuclear Weapons?
No arms limitation treaties, few diplomatic channels, AI integration into nuclear command systems, and an elite with Epstein social values. What could go wrong?
Read more...AI Chatbots Attacks May End the Internet as We Know It
Recently, openDemocracy’s website was brought down by an army of bots, just like Naked Capitalism and other publishers.
Read more...Private Equity Is Coming for Your 401(k)
Private equity has its greedy eyes on a huge pot of money: 401(k) funds and their big ecosystem of service providers.
Read more...Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
How the porky US military machine is also stretched thin, and what that implies for an Iran conflict.
Read more...Big Tech Accused of AI ‘Greenwashing’
A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow”.
Read more...One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...Trump’s DHS Is Pushing the Boundaries of Probable Cause and Due Process to Fuel a Farm Labor Crisis
Agricultural employers are scrambling to find replacements and the administration is turning to guest workers.
Read more...Reuters Finds AI-Using Surgery Devices Harmed Patients; Nature Magazine and Reuters Find Medical Chatbots Not Beating Patients’ Own Internet Sleuthing
More reasons to be concerned about the aggressive implementation of AI in medicine.
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