While all indications are that the US, regardless of who the next president is, will continue to support Israel’s rampage through the Middle East, as well as more confrontation with China, less sure is the direction that Russia policy will...
While we encourage well-informed, well-argued, and sometimes energetic discussions, rancor is another matter. Yesterday, a long thread on Lambert’s post on the RFK, Jr. speech where RFK, Jr. excoriated the contemporary Democratic party and endorsed Trump too often descended into...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Everybody knows what chokepoints are — think a robber baron stretching a chain across the Rhine to collect tolls — but nobody seems to have noticed how ubiquitous the checkpoint concept is, or in how...
Lambert here: I don’t play electronic games, but I’m sure we have readers who do. Have any of you seen this “badvertising”? Can it be blocked? By Andrew Simms, co-director of the New Weather Institute, co-founder of the Badvertising campaign,...
About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the...
That is from Elad Gil. The post The falling cost of tokens appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Source link...
All show gains since January 2023, save the CPS based. Figure 1: Cumulative change in NFP employment according to CES (bold black), implied preliminary benchmark (blue), early benchmark (tan), Goldman Sachs estimate (light blue square), CPS adjusted to NFP concept...
Yves here. Documentary producer Lynn Fries edited some interviews with John Bellamy Foster on the importance and comparative neglect in the Anglosphere of Beyond Leviathan by István Mészáros. From the extract below, Beyond Leviathan’s take on the unacknowledged problem of...
By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. Her most recent book is...
The best neighbor imaginable. Awww, how nice. pic.twitter.com/9bQwSVkEL1 — Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 21, 2024 Researchers capture video of possible wolf-dog hybrid in northern Minnesota MPRNews (Chuck L) Looks like Audrey at the start: The Queen of Night blooms only...
