Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
AI is following the same trajectory as the dot-com bubble.
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Why Housing Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon
On the dynamics behind seemingly unyielding high urban housing prices.
Read more...Oklahoma’s Ban on Chinese-Owned Farmland Made an Exception for Smithfield Foods
Despite introducing legislation across the country to restrict foreign ownership of farmland, lawmakers do not appear motivated to target monopolistic firms, or to bring more of the food supply chain under domestic control.
Read more...Africa’s New Data Dependency – Technology Colonialism
Data agreements are replacing armies as tools of colonialism and the return of external governance
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Sweet Movie (1974) Run Time: 1H 38M
Sweet Movie is a film about candy, rebirth, and sexuality just for starters.
Read more...What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.
Read more...Political Power and Profitable Trades in the US Congress
A new study finds that it’s not the Congress rank and file that generates insider trading big bucks, only some of the leaders.
Read more...The Empire of Lies Is Once Again Sowing Chaos In Its Own “Back Yard”
This is unlikely to end well for all parties concerned, including the US.
Read more...Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Trump’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty.
Read more...AI’s Errors May Be Impossible to Eliminate – What That Means for Its Use in Health Care
Even with concerns about using AI in medicine, proponents contend doctors can properly oversee its use. Is that realistic?
Read more...Israel Is Acting with Impunity. Is It Overconfident in Trump’s Support?
More Americans support Palestine than Israel for the first time ever. But does that matter to Trump?
Read more...U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
Some updates on the US capture of an oil tanker that had just departed from Venezuela.
Read more...Economic Questions: James Tobin’s Transaction Tax
A Tobin tax is a no-brainer for reducing speculation and financial crisis risk. That is reason enough to keep it from being implemented.
Read more...The U.S. Is Betting the Economy on ‘Scaling’ AI: Where Is the Intelligence When One Needs It?
A detailed discussion of how AI data-center investment boom is soking a societally and financially costly bubble
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