~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics, plus Trump posts his bond, Kennedy’s “paranoid style,” and more detail on Shanahan. ~
Friday, February 6, 2026
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
Brussels Begins to Mobilise Its Mass Censorship Regime for Upcoming EU Elections
This is the culmination of a process that began at least a decade ago.
How the Electric War Is Redrawing the Ukraine Map – In Black
Like so many things, the electric war has developed not necessarily to Ukraine’s advantage.
A Simple Desultory Analytic (Or How I Was Peter Turchin’d Into Perdition) by “I lost my harmonica albrt”
A discussion of Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration.
“Ensh*ttification”: A General Theory for the Life Cycle of the Firm?
“It is the people that distinguish one company from another.”
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/1/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Devolution and the Decline in Operational Capacity and Elite/Managerial Competence
Has devolution, as in technologies that increase output at the cost of skill, contributed to the decline in operational capability?
Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration
In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten details how global warming could displace millions of Americans.
Michael Hudson: Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War
A reminder of how Germany has committed economic suicide rather than say “no” to the US.
Combating “Hate”: The Trojan Horse for Precrime
Canada pushes ahead with a pre-hate-crime bill as US states continue with programs to collect data on all types of hate “incidents.” Can “precrime” really prevent hate or are there ulterior motives at hand?
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income.
