Apple Blinks on Right to Repair: Or Does It?
Apple makes modest concessions on the right to repair. Seems to be less here than meets the eye.
Read more...Category Archives: Ridiculously obvious scams
‘Father Is Surgeon’: How Money Talked in USC Admissions Scandal
Defense attorney releases emails documenting just how seriously USC officials weighed family donations in making admissions decisions.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: We Are Clearly Living in a Bizarro Capitalism Era—And It’s Time to Change How the World Manages Economies
Central banks don’t have the tools to address our problems. It will take well-constructed fiscal policy to set right our topsy-turvy economy.
Read more...Flood the Market
Buyouts can save Houston’s flood-soaked homeowners — if they can get one. Instead, ordinary homeowners fail to qualify, and real estate speculators make out.
Read more...A National Public School ‘Leadership’ Disaster: Private Firms Vetting Candidates for Superintendent
How search firms engaged to find and vet candidates for public school superintendent regularly endorse individuals who have fabricated credentials and skeltons in their closets.
Read more...Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!
Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why bother?
Read more...Removing Mini-Shampoos from Hotel Rooms Won’t Save the Environment
Why most corporate pro-environment measures are mere gestures.
Read more...A Brush With A Notorious Cat, My Rabies Education And The Big Bill That Followed
A rabies ripoff.
Read more...Shale Bleeds Cash Despite Best Quarter In Years
Quelle surprise! The shale industry is still a big loser.
Read more...CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: Underhanded, Dishonest Plans to Cut Investment Meetings of Poorly Performing Fund by More Than 50%, Shrink Investment Committee
The first of a two-part series describing the process and substance with which CalPERS staff is trying to engineer a de facto resignation of its board.
Read more...CalPERS Engineering Board Resignation: “Attempted Coup” via Unconstitutional, Fiduciary-Duty-Violating “Code of Conduct”
Just when you think CalPERS can’t sink any lower, it manages to outdo itself, this time, with an illegal governance monstrosity masquerading a code of conduct.
Read more...Phishing Equilibria in E-Commerce: Shopping Sites and Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn’t mean to. Shopping sites use them a lot, and the bigger the site, the more likely.
Read more...Even Larry Summers Denounces World Bank’s “PEF” Ebola Bonds That Enriched Investors at Expense of the Sick in the Congo
The World Bank wants to double down on financial gimmickry rather than develop the public health infrastructure to combat pandemics.
Read more...Phishing Equilibria in Silicon Valley: Google Maps and Fraud
Don’t trust business listings in Google Maps. They’re can be fraudulent, even dangerous.
Read more...Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup
Apple continues to crapify its products, in ways intended to thwart the ability of their owners to use third party services to repair their devices.
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