Wednesday, October 1, 2025

”Who Says Violence Doesn’t Solve Anything?” A Review of Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow

Radicalized presents uncomfortable truths about the neoliberal vise.

How Deep Is Boeing’s Hole?

A favorite saying of famed short seller David Einhorn is, “No matter how bad it looks, it’s worse.”. This appears particularly true of Boeing these days.

China-US Trade War Heats Up: 3 Reasons It Won’t Cool Down Anytime Soon

Why the US and China are gridlocked on trade.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Bullock, de Blasio, O’Rourke, Sanders, legitimacy and the DNC, Sunrise movement, import and export prices, small business optimism. influencers, Uber, Adobe, coal ash, the Mississippi, California wildfires, Adolph Reed, Bruce Lee, “Everything’s Going According to Plan”

Working on Cloudflare’s Captcha Hell

Cloudflare doesn’t seem terribly interested in addressing a “captcha hell” that almost certainly originates with them, so please be patient while we work on seeing if we can change settings to make things more tolerable.

SEC to Relax Audit Requirements for Small Companies, Thus Facilitating Future Accounting Fraud

SEC proposes relaxing internal control attestation requirements for companies with annual revenues of less than $100 million.

Links 5/14/19

Facebook’s Finance Fantasy Island Dreams

Facebook wants to become a big payments system player. Good luck with that.

“It’s Not Just Barclays – Tackling Climate Change Means Building a New Bank System”

A discussion of using bank lending as a way to tackle climate change.

ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 3 (MMT)

More MMT for people in a hurry.

Why Everyone in the U.S. Who Counts Wants Julian Assange Dead

Keep your eye on what Assange’s real offenses are in the minds of the officialdom.

ZEN and the Art of Modern Money, Part 2 (MMT)

MMT for people in a hurry.

2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread and iOS mailer hate.

Josh Hawley (R-MO) and How the Social Media Economy Addicts Users

Lambert gingerly enters the worlds of gaming and Republican politics.

Links 5/13/19