Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Read more...Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Read more...Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.
Read more...Venture capital and private equity are playing a larger role in the military-industrial complex leading to even more corruption, lack of accountability and the swallowing up of young minds by the Silicon Valley money pit.
Read more...Jill Stein explains why she is running for US president on an anti-war, pro-worker platform, challenging the Democrat/Republican duopoly.
Read more...More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...On different notions of citizenship and their implications.
Read more...Some observations about why modern Israel backs genocide, and why the US and Europe supported its creation.
Read more...Sahra Wagenknecht shook up the German political establishment with the January launch of her new left-populist political party. She’s now looking to do the same in the European Parliament.
Read more...The AI targeting system, Lavender, tries to provide a tech gloss of legitimacy to hit lists, here one designed to kill bystanders.
Read more...What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: “The aim all along has been to kill them.”
Read more...Fining, arresting, and jailing people for a lack of housing is never the solution—and compounds existing housing inequities.
Read more...As the rich become both richer and better bunkered, the young are finally realizing that wealth disparity is a big part of what ails them.
Read more...A recent conference in Colombia assessed the extent of land grabs and how to organize against them.
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