Hyundai fire risk warning as 91,000 vehicles recalled
The recall is the latest in a series of fire-related recalls of Hyundai and Kia models in recent years.
Links 8/4/2023 | naked capitalism
Why you want bats in your yard — and how to attract them WaPo. For the same reason you want humming birds, beneficial insects, pollinator-attracting plants, etc. “The augmentation of…
From Portugal to Portland
When Oregon was getting ready to vote on whether to decriminalize all drugs in 2020, I was covering the story for Vox. During my interviews with the leaders of the…
From Portugal to Portland
When Oregon was getting ready to vote on whether to decriminalize all drugs in 2020, I was covering the story for Vox. During my interviews with the leaders of the…
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape | naked capitalism
The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement. Retailers are also embracing the technology to monitor…
Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing
For days, the rain came down in sheets, pounding Beijing and areas around it in what the government said was the heaviest deluge China’s capital had seen since record keeping…
Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle | naked capitalism
Yves here. While the word “fascism” or “fascist” is deployed way too casually as an epithet, sometimes labels like this are apt. Robert Urie below argues why. To add to…
Russia Is Finally Correcting False Perceptions of BRICS | naked capitalism
Yves here. We’re featuring this post on how understandable differences among BRICS members, both economically and geopolitically, means they are not as unified as some multipolarity fans would believe. An…
Inside U.S. Team, a Campaign to Avert Disaster Gets Personal
In the days since the United States team narrowly avoided an embarrassing early elimination from the Women’s World Cup, Lindsey Horan, its co-captain, has been working the room. Horan wants…
Mike Pence Has Reached His Fork in the Road
Through four years as Donald J. Trump’s vice president, or perhaps three years and 350 days, Mike Pence brandished a peerless talent: insisting that all was going smoothly amid plain…