Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Gaius Publius: How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly and Persistently Track You

How police are using military technology to spy on you even better.

“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”

Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.

Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI

Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.

Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State

“Robots are coming for your job” may be more scare talk than reality, but instilling that belief helps weaken labor bargaining power.

How Taxpayers Subsidize AirBnB’s Cheap Prices

How you lose when AirBnB wins.

Former Employee Sues Google, Claims It Maintained an Internal Spy Network That Encouraged Workers to Snitch on Each Other

Google looks to have been too clever by half in how far it has gone in trying to silence employees.

Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Six: Latest Data Confirms Bleak P&L Performance While Stephen Levitt Makes Indefensible Consumer Welfare Claims

More on Uber’s questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, “Freakonomics” professor Stephen Levitt.

When a Business You Like Dies

Mourning the death of a favorite business, and what that says about the environment for entrepreneurs.

Uber’s Woes Mount: California Strips Driverless Cars’ Registration, Losses Rise, VAT Charges Loom

Uber has a bad week.

Is Technological Progress Behind Growing Income Inequality?

Do elite-serving claims that technological change is a big driver of the rise in inequality hold up to scrutiny?

Uber, Gig Economy: “The Brutality of the System Is Being Lost on Those Who Actually Use These Apps”

The Financial Times’ Izabella Kaminska argues that the gig economy is a new form of feudalism.

Developer of B.S. Detector Apologizes for Including Naked Capitalism in “Fake News” Tool, Yet Fails to Take Responsibility for Non-Transparent Process and McCarthyite Nature of Project

The developer of B.S. Detector apologized for including Naked Capitalism. Unfortunately, his note is revealing, and not in a good way.

Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Five: Addressing Reader Comments and Questions

Hubert Horan answers questions about his series on Uber.

Witch Hunt: “Fake News” Software Touted by CBS Smears Naked Capitalism, ShadowProof, TruthDig, Others; Creator Admits He Made Up Who Went on Hit List

Naked Capitalism, Consortium News, Counterpunch, Truthout, TruthDig are under another “fake news” attack, this from a browser extension.

We Demand That The Washington Post Retract Its Propaganda Story Defaming Naked Capitalism and Other Sites and Issue an Apology

Our lawyer has a few words with the Washington Post.