2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Kennedy live briefing at 2:00PM ET; This week’s RCP polling averages (neck and neck); New Covid charts (no improvements); The toll of scientific lies ~
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Lina Khan’s FTC Gears Up to Go After Algorithmic Black Boxes Governing Workers’ Lives, but It Might Be Running Out of Time
A closer look at “algorithmic wage discrimination” used at gig companies (and increasingly across all industries), one potential tool to stop it, and how the FTC is zeroing in on the practice.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/7/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics; irrational exuberance among the Democrats; introducing Walz; Boeing’s Starliner debacle ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/6/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; best Olympic story; Walz is Kamala’s VP choice; Climate tipping points unpredictable; Andy Warhol’s lost Amiga Art ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/1/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala’s VP search; Trish Greenhalgh on Long Covid; Covid and class ~
Read more...Links 7/28/2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/26/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; who engineered the bait and switch?; Kamala and Lina Khan; abolish your lawn ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/24/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; impeachment articles against Harris (frivolous); how Harris grabbed Biden’s war chest; only Google can search Reddit; the wheel of emotions. ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/23/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Pelosi and the Twenty Fifth Amendment; Kamala’s rollout; establishment voices at the Atlantic; Boeing cluster continues ~
Read more...A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It
An initiative in the Southwestern US demonstrates that health care for the homeless can be financially viable.
Read more...Biden: Strategic Projections of Confidence
The effort to shore up Biden’s flagging Presidential candidacy is a case study of the role of confidence and commitment in campaigns.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/10/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Trump VP picks; Biden’s wall of Black support; Pelosi: “Not so fast!” ~
Read more...It Is Now Labour’s Turn to Expand the Piecemeal Privatisation of the UK’s National Health Service
To treat the NHS’s ills, Keir Starmer’s government is talking about bringing back Tony Blair’s health secretary, Alan Milburn, who is now in the pay of corporations with interests in the UK’s healthcare sector.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/27/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; The Debates, pre-game analysis; Murthy v. Missouri; Digital ID exposure debacle; CDK auto dealer outage and consumer spending ~
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/11/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Hunter Biden — dear Hunter! — convicted on gun charges; Luntz focus group on Trump conviction; Library card catalogs ~
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