~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics, anti-Trump legal cabal revealed, sudden emergence of the Molineux Rule as an issue for Bragg’s prosecution, documents unsealed by Judge Cannon with the loss of a judgeship. ~
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/25/2024
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 64 Comments »
Google AI Censorship: Google Reverses Itself Fully on Demonetization Threat After Intervention by Matt Taibbi and Our Demonstration of Pervasive Errors
Hooray! Google fully reversed itself on its AI-generated censorship and demonetization threat. But don’t assume this sort of thing is over.
Topics: Legal, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 10:20 am | 23 Comments »
Links 4/25/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 229 Comments »
The Populist Dynamic: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Countering Populism
Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
Topics: Europe, Guest Post, Income disparity, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:41 am | 17 Comments »
Grocery Store Consolidation: Manipulating Supply Chains and Manufacturing, for Corporate Influence and Profit . . . Redux
More squeezing of the poors and shrinking middle class sought, via a US grocery store merger creating combined company market share of 22%
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Regulations and regulators, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 2:41 am | 18 Comments »
‘Does the CIA Still Do That?’
A look at the CIA’s sorry history of propaganda, psyops and assassinations.
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Surveillance state
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:28 am | 55 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/24/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 80 Comments »
Making the World Safe for KFC: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover
How the World Bank’s IFC and others development banks supported KFC’s world conquest by backing its factory farms.
Topics: Africa, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, India, Middle East, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 10 Comments »
Links 4/24/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 220 Comments »
Israel Economy Deterioration Worsens as Gaza Conflict and Other Hostilities Grind On
A fresh look, admittedly based on limited information, at how Israel’s economy is holding up in what is proving to be a protracted conflict
Topics: Credit markets, Economic fundamentals, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 75 Comments »
War Is Never the Answer to a Properly Posed Question
A discussion of four books about Palestine to facilitate better understanding of the war in Gaza.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Media watch, Middle East, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:54 am | 27 Comments »
FTC Chief Says Tech Advancements Risk Health Care Price Fixing
The FTC’s Lina Khan is loaded for bear and targeting potential (as in probable) tech-facilitated price collusion in health care.
Topics: Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Health care, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:48 am | 6 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 4/23/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread ~
Topics: Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 49 Comments »
Crackdowns on Pro-Palestine Occupations on Major Campuses Bringing Gaza Conflict a Bit Closer to Home
Mild campus protests, at least by 1960s standards, against the Gaza genocide, have produced panic in the officialdom and aggressive responses.
Topics: Media watch, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 11:16 am | 105 Comments »
Links 4/23/2024
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 211 Comments »