Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Google Censorship: AI Run Amok Threatens Demonetization Over a Navigation Page with No Ads, An Article on a Foreign Policy Best-Seller Deemed Anti-Vaxx, and More Flagrant Errors

Google tries to censor this site based on a systematically flawed AI review. How many others will be victims of bad algos?

Wealth of US Billionaires Hits $5.5 Trillion—Up 88% Since Pandemic Hit

Even though the rich are predictably getting richer even in the Covid era, the picture is worse when you look at billionaires.

Introduction to Swing States in the Presidential Election of 2024 (General Survey)

It’s swing voters from the swingiest states, like Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, who will really matter.

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/18/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemic news, Boeing, Keith Richards (and Trump’s surety bond). ~

Links 3/18/2024

Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!

Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation

Minneapolis Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Uber and Lyft Minimum Rates

“Essential” workers are cross-sectoral organizing across Minnesota and scoring victories.

“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”

Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.

Links 3/17/2024

Collapse on the EU Home Front 

Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash. 

Why Are Their Lordships So Frightened of Modern Monetary Theory?

Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.

Links 3/16/2024

What Is China’s Future? Economic Decline, or the Next Industrial Revolution?

China has become economically wobbly of late. What does that portend?

New Evidence the German Taurus Attack Plan Was Leaked by the US Air Force

Yves here. It’s quite a big claim that members of the US military would leak a recording of German generals scheming to strike Russia with Taurus missiles to Russia. But then again, given that the US blew up the NordStream pipeline, it’s not as if the US regards Germany as anything other that a state […]

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/15/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, Boeing, Berlin techno, media assault on Long Covid ~