Gaza Campus Protestors: Today’s “Have You No Sense of Decency?”
Michael Hudson looks at the ideological roots and power dynamics behind the anti-Gaza-genocide protests spreading across US campuses.
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With US Workers on the March, Southern States Take Aim at Unions
Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
Read more...Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Read more...Grocery Store Consolidation: Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux
More squeezing of the poors and shrinking middle class sought, via a US grocery store merger creating combined company market share of 22%
Read more...Will the Freedom Flotilla Sail to Gaza?
The Freedom Flotialla is another example of how trying to save lives in Gaza is a high risk enterprise.
Read more...China Anti-Espionage Laws Threaten Pharma Supply Chains and Multinational Manufacture in China
New anti-espionage laws in China could make an increasingly tenuous situation for Western drug buyers even worse.
Read more...AI Chatbots Refuse to Produce ‘Controversial’ Output − Why That’s a Free Speech Problem
Quelle surprise! AI is being deployed to censor unwelcome ideas via omission.
Read more...US Firms Have Little Financial Incentive to Comply with the Minimum Wage
More on “American hates the poors”: companies face hardly any downside in cheating on disgracefully low minimum wages.
Read more...Citizenship: Concept and Consequences
On different notions of citizenship and their implications.
Read more...Starbucks Seeks Supreme Court Protection From Being Ordered to Rehire Baristas Who Say They Were Fired for Union-Promoting Activities
The conservative Supremes appear set to side with Starbucks in an upcoming case that will hurt union organizing across the country.
Read more...Nate Silver: Sotomayor Should Retire Before the Election
Why Sotomayor should, erm, take one for the team!
Read more...Combating “Hate”: The Trojan Horse for Precrime
Canada pushes ahead with a pre-hate-crime bill as US states continue with programs to collect data on all types of hate “incidents.” Can “precrime” really prevent hate or are there ulterior motives at hand?
Read more...NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law
The Microsoft-powered bot says bosses can take worker’s tips and that landlords can discriminate based on source of income.
Read more...Generative AI Could Leave Users Holding the Bag for Copyright Violations
Liability for the use of AI that in turn is meaningfully based on copyrighted material could throw a spanner in the AI bandwagon.
Read more...Texas Law Forces Pension Funds and Municipalities to Drop Use of Financial Firms that Support Net Zero
Texas is counter-sanctioning Big Finance firms over Net Zero initiatives designed to choke money flows to fossil fuel businesses.
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