Saturday, December 13, 2025

Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Four: Uber Loses Another $6.8 Billion

Even as Uber throws more business ballast over the side to try lighten the ship, it still continues to sink.

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Stands in the Way of Direct Aid

How non-profit organizations are too often about the career advancement of their staff, and what marginalized communities can do about that.

Waste Watch: News from the U.S. and the Maldives

The Maldives and the U.S. are each grappling with managing their packaging waste; beware those who tout the EPR panacea.

Links 2/15/2021

How to Make COVID Vaccines More Effective: Give People Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Supplementing vitamin and mineral levels of the elderly before they get vaccinated could boost the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.

Black Lives Matter Inland Empire Announces Break With BLM Global Network: Calls Out Lack of Transparency, Democratic Party Control

A Black Lives Matter group calls out the organization’s embrace of capitalism, self-promotion, and the Democratic Party.

‘Fire DeJoy Before He Burns Down USPS’: Postmaster General Pushes Plan for Slower Mail, Higher Prices

The planned demolition of the USPS continues. Can it be stopped?

Valentine’s Day Food Security Special: Hold the Pink Kraft Dinner, Serve Up Comfort Food

Kraft serves up a pink-hued, candy-flavored Valentine’s Day version of its boxed mac ‘n cheese. What’s on your comfort food menu?

Links 2/14/2021

‘Beyond Outrageous’: Big Pharma Using Loophole to Get Taxpayers to Fund Billions in Fines for Fueling Opioid Crisis

Big Pharma firms may try and take a tax deduction for some of the $26 billion opioid settlement, thus reducing its payout.

Links 2/13/2021

Working From Home: Too Much of a Good Thing

Why and how much the working from home trend is likely to be unwound post Covid (assuming a post Covid).

Yanis Varoufakis: Trumpism after Trump – NEWSWEEK Magazine, Interviewed by Basit Mahmood

Varoufakis believes Biden Administration fecklessness and love of austerity will strengthen the Trump faction.

2:00PM Water Cooler 2/12/2021

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The Bank of England Should Stop Broadcasting the Views of a Comfortable Financial Elite

A “put foot in mouth and chew” episode from Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane.