Satyajit Das: Much Ado About Nothing – Why President Trump’s ‘Big Deals” Are No Big Deals
A clinical look at Trump’s deal hucksterism versus his typical modest-at-best results.
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Is Trump Building a Massive Data Center Beneath the East Wing? If So, Why?
Is the East Wing redo intended to include a massive data center/command installation? If so, what is the main object of concern?
Read more...Deaths by Liposuction Still Fail to Stop Ads Promising ‘Dream Body’ With Minimal Risk
Liposuction deaths at a private-equity-backed spa chain, after other liposuction deaths, fail to elicit responses like curbs on advertising.
Read more...Behind the USDA’s Regenerative Rhetoric Lurks Business as Usual
More on a part of the MAHA con, that of regenerative farming, which is simply a rebrand of factory farming.
Read more...Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans
Unpacking why the US military is so expensive and even if it were less pork-driven, would still be unduly costly for society at large.
Read more...Some Perhaps Not Fully Anticipated Effects of Increased AI Use: Evidence Doubts, Fraud and Fraud Containment
Some important second-order effects of greater AI use, such as greater ease of perpetrating fraud and what might responses might be
Read more...Satyajit Das: AI – Artificial Intelligence or Absolute Insanity?
AI is following the same trajectory as the dot-com bubble.
Read more...Obamacare Enhanced Subsidies/Health “Care” Fixes, Expressed as Pentagon Units
Time for some perspective on enhanced Obamacare subsidies costs and stakes.
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
Read more...Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
A look at Trump’s non-solution to the looming problem of the expiration of Covid-era ACA subsidies.
Read more...The Housing Crisis Is Forcing Americans to Choose Between Affordability and Safety
The magic of the market: a system where your income determines your exposure to climate disasters.
Read more...Investigation Reveals How Amazon Is Fleecing Public Schools With ‘Algorithm-Driven Pricing’
$74 for 36 markers.
Read more...Under Kennedy, America’s Health Department Is in the Business of Promoting Kennedy
More detail on Health and Human Services chief serving his own financial interests and pet causes as opposed to those of the public.
Read more...Blockbuster San Francisco Lawsuit Targets Food Industry Giants Over Ultraprocessed Foods, with Extensive Documentation of Health Damage and Success in Producing Addiction
A case by the San Francisco attorney documents Big Food’s use of ultraprocessed food to create addicts in a repeat of the tobacco playbook.
Read more...Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a ‘Toxic Lie’ Pushed by Plastics Industry
More confirmation that recycling is no solution to relentlessly rising plastics use and health damage.
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