Yves here. While this Thomas Neuburger post, and the Chris Hedges tweetstorm that inspired it, make the important point that violence begats violence, the framing bothers me. The focus on “lust for vengeance” puts the emphasis on the damage done...
Yves here. Readers regularly give updates on the crapification of medicine, mainly from the patient but sometimes the provider side. A big driver is insurance: obstacles like pre-approvals or other gatekeeping delaying or perversely restricting care, or narrow networks excluding...
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day I thought I would try some nightingales…. Common Nightingale, Sotos de Albolafia, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. * * * In Case You Might Miss… 2024 Opinion-havers opine, two weeks out. Trump...
Item 1: Source: Antoni. Item 2: Source: Antoni. Not that the data are “wrong” (I’m not a data conspiracy theorist). Just without context, it’s pretty meaningless. Here’s what a relevant graph might show (motivated by the Quantity Theory): Figure 1:...
I’ve covered the Zangezur Corridor in southern Armenia with some regularity here. It’s a short 42-kilometer strip of land link in a trade and energy route that stretches the length of Eurasia, and there’s a reason it’s so hotly contested...
What is the piebald deer, the rare animal recently spotted in Western Pennsylvania? CBS Pittsburgh Kentucky Man Declared Brain Dead Wakes Up Moments Before Organ Harvesting ZME Science How Zombies and Vampires Help Me Grapple with Disaster Atmos Climate/Environment Pollution...
Yves here. KLG, drawing on the ideas of Elinor Olstrom, argues that the thinking that got us into our current mess, particularly but not solely climate climate change and environmental degradation, is inherently ill-suited to come up with remedies. While...
Yves here. This Richard Murphy post makes an important and often overlooked point: the roles that small and large enterprises play are fundamentally different, and that has policy implications. But I have a quibble about a passing comment about small...
Yves here. We published a GPENewsdoc piece on AI synthetic biology which highlighted key risks. Sadly the post got very comments, perhaps because readers found the discussion to be too academically oriented. This piece is much more layperson accessible, although...
Ryan Cummings and Ernie Tedeschi have a very interesting article in BriefingBook today which casts new light on the disjuncture between measured sentiment and conventional macroeconomic indicators. Cummings and Tedeschi document how the move to online sampling has altered the...
