“In our countries, no one can walk the streets with a mask on their face,” and “yet we allow people to roam freely on the Internet without linking their profiles…
Yves here. Richard Murphy provides a useful, layperson-friendly explanation of why political bromides that treat national budgets like household ones are all wet. Please circulate widely. By Richard Murphy, part-time…
Yves here. This post is one of the few comparatively sane ones about what the left should do in light of Donald Trump’s fast and aggressive moves to implement plutocrat-friendly…
Bird Song of the Day Brown Thrasher, Finger Lakes National Forest; Dunn Road, Tompkins, New York, United States. In Case You Might Miss… Trump wants nuclear reduction talks with China,…
Yves here. This important post fills out the picture of how extensive censorship became under the Biden Administration. I hope you’ll circulate his piece widely, since it demonstrates the campaign…
Yves here. It’s always perilous to take issue with some of the theories advanced in a book second-hand, as in a review. However, one of the contentions that Tom Neuburger…
Yves here. A fashionista colleague has been telling me for some time that luxury brands have been in the crapper for some time, confirmed by occasional stories at the Financial…
Yves here. Perhaps readers will beg to differ, but there seems to be some flawed assumptions in this piece. First is that the decision on how much and how to…
Last week NATO announced that it is increasing its presence in the Baltic Sea. The pretext is damage in recent months to undersea cables allegedly caused by ships associated with…
Yves here. I found this to be a truly depressing article about AI receptivity, since it ignored, as most discussions do, serious issues about the limits of AI and how…