Category Archives: Technology and innovation

What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View, or How to Look at the World from the Philosophical High Ground

A critical look at William MacAskill’s new book on how human civilization can make it through the next few hundred years.

The U.S. Needs To Double The Size Of Its Energy Grid

Will the state of the US grid constrain the conversion to electric vehicles and other green devices?

The Collapse in Operational Capabilities in the West and Some Knock-On Effects

Why does the West seem increasingly unable to get out of its own underwear?

It’s Bad Enough EHRs Cause Clinician Burnout. It’s Even Worse They Are Being Used by Hospitals and Defense Lawyers To Bury Mistakes Through Discovery Fraud and Information Blocking

How hospital systems are using electronic health records (EHRs) to hide patient records during discovery in malpractice and other lawsuits.

Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Alzheimer’s

Alert reader Adam1 gets an AI to fake a citation!

Why You Should Never Use an AI for Advice about Your Health, Especially Covid

Lambert chats with two AIs about Covid’s airborne transmission.

Banning TikTok Could Weaken Personal Cybersecurity

Banning TikTok would be a messy business….and probably not technologically enforceable.

Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy

One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.

Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices

How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.

Using Tik-Tok as a Trojan Horse, the RESTRICT Act Would Create an Internet Censorship Star Chamber

The RESTRICT Act has run into a buzz saw of well-warranted criticism. But will that be enough to stop it?

Artificial Intelligence in Medicare Advantage Plans Impedes Access to Care

Another reputable body reports more examples of Medicare Advantage plans using AI to engage in insurance fraud.

Medicare Advantage Uses Algorithms to Block Care for Seniors

How AI is institutionalizing Medicare Adantage fraud, to the degree that appeals of denials often outrun the patient’s life.