“The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine”
On the rotten state of evidence-baded medicine, and whether there is any way out.
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International Labor Organization Reports on Gig Worker Protest
Platform workers are well networked, with strengthening sinews of solidarity that transcend individual companies. It is also important to note that platform labour protest tends to emerge from the bottom up, particularly in the global South, where such protests are overwhelmingly led by informal groups of workers.
Read more...The Incredibly Cool James Webb Space Telescope
An exquisitely sensitive infrared astronomical observatory….
Read more...Leverage & Interconnectedness Are Blowing Up Crypto & DeFi
What’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
Read more...FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate
Internet access may be boosting the desire to emigrate while reducing the costs of finding information on opportunities abroad
Read more...Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why Big Tech practices are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in.
Read more...Small Players Get Hammered in the Supply Chain Crunch: The Rotary Dumbphone Case Study
The tortous development/production process for Justine Haupt’s rotary dumbphone illusrates the obstacles to innovation in America.
Read more...How Many Bots Are on Twitter? The Question Is Difficult to Answer and Misses the Point
A disingenuous defense of Twitter bots.
Read more...Brief Comments on the TerraUSD and Tether Stablecoin Breakdowns
Why the two big stablecoin breakdowns of last week, TerraUSD and Tether, look like frauds.
Read more...Mothers, Lock Up Your Sons So They Don’t Practice “Yield Farming” in Crypto
“You’re just like, well, I’m in the Ponzi business and it’s pretty good.”
Read more...#ProfessorsofTikTok: Influencer Culture Is Everywhere — Even in Academia
Accounts furnished by aspiring YouTubers and Instagram influencers resonated deeply with my experiences as a then-junior academic.
Read more...Biden Makes America’s Militarized Southern Border Wall Even Bigger Business
How the Biden Administration is investing heavily in border militariization, with more of a tech flavor than than the Trump scheme.
Read more...‘Elon, There Are Rules’: EU Says Twitter Must Comply With New Digital Services Act
One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world’s richest man a “reality check” about how they will respond if he loosens the platform’s content moderation policies.
Read more...Why ‘Bad’ Ads Appear on ‘Good’ Websites – A Computer Scientist Explains
Explaining the sometimes perverse operation of online ads.
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