Category Archives: Technology and innovation

Western Wind Turbine Manufacturers Struggle to Compete with Chinese Pricing

The US, UK and Europe fall behind China in a supposed priority area, wind turbines.

A Weak Spot in Carbon Sequestration: Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells

Carbon stored underground could leak through old wells. How regulators plan to handle that is under scrutiny.

Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car

The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models

Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”

Matt Taibbii took a good look at Google’s AI censorship of this site and deemed it “an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression.”

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.

“The Censorship Trap”

Rajiv Sethi joins the pushback against censorship, using Google’s bogus attack on one of his posts on this site as a point of departure.

Google Censorship: AI Run Amok Threatens Demonetization Over a Navigation Page with No Ads, An Article on a Foreign Policy Best-Seller Deemed Anti-Vaxx, and More Flagrant Errors

Google tries to censor this site based on a systematically flawed AI review. How many others will be victims of bad algos?

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.

“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”

Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.

New Storyline in Wall Street Journal: “Russia Is Running Out of Missiles” Shifts to “Russia Can’t Keep Up Production Forever”

A careful reading of a sighting in what may be a new campaign to shore up Western hopes in the light of Russia’s military outproduction.

Apple’s Exclusionary App Store Scheme: Will the EU Tolerate Gaming of the Digital Markets Act?

Will the EU see through and act against Apple’s self-serving, Digital-Markets-Act-evading new app store scheme?

Book Review: Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World”

The Silicon Valley citadel of capitalism is built on eugenics, bombs, and hatred of the working class, and it’s destroying the world.

How Facebook Contributes to the Demise of Endangered Species

With little enforcement or legal culpability, social media sites like Facebook help wildlife trafficking thrive in plain sight.

U.S. Seeks Semiconductor Supremacy with New Funding Initiatives

Is a “CHIPS Act 2.0” coming soon?

A Transparent, Open-Source Vision for U.S. Elections

Voting technology in the U.S. is secretive and often expensive. Would an open-source alternative be a better approach?