The Problem with AI
Why AI is likely to have more limited use than boosters anticipate, particularly in replacing professionals like teachers and accountants.
Read more...Why AI is likely to have more limited use than boosters anticipate, particularly in replacing professionals like teachers and accountants.
Read more...This is one generational trend I wasn’t expecting.
Read more...The US continues to talk at, rather than with, China about its close ties to Russia.
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Kamala’s stint at McDonalds: Fact or fiction?; Kennedyon healthy food, and on the environment.; Section 230 decision: “The business model of Big Tech is over.”;
Read more...An unvarnished assessment of what a Kamala Harris presidency would amount to.
Read more...Protesters are pushing Citigroup to divest from fossil fuels and companies that are sending arms to Israel.
Read more...A full-throated critique of the claim that capitalism benefits the poors.
Read more...Oxfam gives an update on the ever-widening gap between our money overlords and the poor, and how their enrichment is increasing poverty.
Read more...Why peer review is not what you might think it is, and what can be done to remedy that.
Read more...A well-targeted rant about the offensive shallowness and neglect of concrete material needs of voters that the Democratic Party now embodies.
Read more...Why many community members don’t leave in the face of localized collapse, and how they adapt.
Read more...Mexico’s President AMLO responds by refusing to discuss the matter with US Ambassador Ken Salazar while giving the Mexican people a brief history lesson on US interference in Latin America.
Read more...A new Team Democrat messaging strategy boils down to “War is love.”
Read more...Michael Hudson reprises a favorite theme of how the salutary practice of debt forgiveness came to an end under Greco-Roman oligarchs
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