Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Over-Planting of GM Corn Costing Farmers Billions, Study Finds

Yet another example of GM crop induced harm to farmers.

Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship

How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.

Demand for Electricity Takes Off. US Power Generation by Source in 2024: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, Petroleum

Quelle surprise! Power demand surges thanks to data centers (AI, cloud, crypto) and increasing share of EVs.

The Recent Weakness in the German Manufacturing Sector

A look at the fallen state of German manufacturing seems to understate the implications of the conditions it describes.

After We Amplified Warnings of Wildly Overvalued Unicorns, They Crash and Burn

DOGEbag Roundup: Horrid Website, This Week’s Agency Targets, Sociology of DOGE

Like Trump, DOGE is very good at sensing weakness.

The Golden Goose: The Consequences of Trump’s War on American Universities

A bug or a feature? The Trump plan to cap NIH/NSF grant indirect overheads is a gut punch to the economics of top universities.

Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen

The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?

Even US Messaging Outlet RFE/RL Having Trouble Prettying Up Trump Planning to Buy Ukraine Rare Earths Empty Bag

There is both less and more in the Trump offer to arm Ukraine in return for rare earths than meets the eye.

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign

On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Stability

On the high odds of winding up with the Peter Principle of AI implementation in financial institutions, and what to do to prevent that.

AI’s Impending Information Crisis

AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.

The Bogus Justification for AI Uptake and the Real Reason for the Scam

AI, in a significant majority of cases, reduces productivity. And there’s not much reason to expect better any time soon.

A Trump Pivot Away From Europe? Not So Fast: The Plunder Is Too Lucrative for American Plutocrats

Europe is now largely an American colony where the tech, energy, weapons, and financial industries are making a killing, so it’s no wonder Trump isn’t going to substantially shift US policy.