The UK’s Online Safety Act and other things they don’t like to talk about. Evghenia Gutul, the Leader of Gagauzi, Has Been Arrested in Moldova According to Usnews; Police in…
Yves here. Satyajit Das looks at the conundrum of the recent peppy performance of European stock markets and its currencies versus terribly longer-term prospects. He concludes the only way to…
By Deborah Fuller, Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington and Patrick Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Originally published at The Conversation.…
Yves here. Richard Murphy below works out the implications of his hypothesis, that Trump’s grand visions is rule by broligarch. The wee problem is it fails to explain big parts…
Despite roughly a decade of stories about a split between President Recep Tayyip ErdoganErdogan’s Türkiye and the US, ties appear as strong as ever. Erdogan continues to make bold statements…
Conor here: We can add another 50 IT staffers to the layoffs listed in the piece below. Fedscoop reported the following yesterday: The decision to cut the [50] IT staffers…
Yves here. While this post flags an important central finding, that the more a job is exposed to AI use, the longer its hours become, its authors seem awfully credulous…
Yves here. I remember in 2007 when I was invited to an open house at the Explorers’ Club in New York City, which featured a day of presentations of scientists…
Yves here. While much of the news is bleak, one bright spot is the rise of small, feisty worker-owned publications. Without the skim of non-employee owners (and no doubt overpaid…
It has been a bad week, borderline flu, just like everyone else in the office since the new year (with 7 of 18 having had a COVID relapse earlier). Plus,…