Understanding Why the Green New Deal Won’t Really Work
A sanity check on the Green New Deal.
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Libra Unraveling: Network of “Partners” Like Visa and Mastercard Refusing Even to Give Lip Service
Quelle surprise! Facebook’s touted Libra partners are getting cold feet.
Read more...Mark Carney’s Trojan Unicorn — Are Central Banks Considering Stealth Nationalization in Sovereign Digital Currencies?
Mark Carney talks about digital soverign currencies. But is he really describing nationalization? And if so, whither the commercial banks?
Read more...The End of Super Imperialism?
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney’s proposal to invent to replace the US dollar as the key reserve currency with a “synthetic hegemonic currency.”
Read more...How Facial Recognition Technology Is Bringing Surveillance Capitalism to Our Streets
Facial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to privacy and public space.
Read more...Cory Doctorow: Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the Making of a Whistleblower
A review of Edward Snowden’s new book.
Read more...Big Tech ‘Nudges’ Our Behavior for Its Own Greed: Here’s a 4-Step Social Media Self-Defense Class
Some simple suggestions for how to keep tech from running your life.
Read more...Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Quest for Decent Work
A large scale study confirms that labour platforms, also known as crowdwork, are exploitative.
Read more...What is the Theory of Change in Naomi Klein’s “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal”?
Why is there no Green New Deal already? And what should we do to get one?
Read more...FAA Hoist on Its Own Boeing 737 Max Petard: Multiagency Panel to Issue Report Criticizing Agency Approval Process, Call for Certification Changes
Another FAA self-inflicted wound.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-One: Mike Isaac’s Book Ignores Economics and Financial Results and Gets the Uber Story Almost Entirely Wrong
Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.
Read more...48 States to Investigate Google: Anti-Trust or Politicking?
The messy politics of the 48 state Google anti-trust investigation.
Read more...A European Perspective on Boeing’s 737 MAX Debacle: An “Existential Crisis” for a National Champion
Four existential threats to Boeing: Adverse court judgments, losing insurance retroactively, new competitors, and the end of today’s regulatory regime.
Read more...Robocalls: Your Number, Please
The players change, but the game remains the same: telephone companies agree to empty agreement intended to combat robocalls.
Read more...Is the So-Called “Manufacturing Renaissance” a Mirage?
38 manufacturing industries continue to decline and nine of 10 of these industries are the critical industries that are fundamental to the manufacturing process
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