Sunday, November 27, 2022

"Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out"

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Apple's CEO is friendly with the Chinese leadership. And while not wanting to impute motives regarding the headline story, the way MacDa...

"The housing theory of everything"

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 From Works in Progress: Try listing every problem the Western world has at the moment. Along with Covid, you might include slow growth, cl...

N.N. Taleb "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"

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Via his Medium site, August 14, 2016: (Chapter from Skin in the Game ) How Europe will eat Halal — Why you don’t have to smoke in the smoki...

New York and New Yorkers

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From Australia's Quadrant Magazine, November 25: Down on Canal Street S ay what you will about the Mafia,” a Greenwich Village neighbour...

"Ousted Disney CEO Bob Chapek Reportedly Cooked The Books To Hide Disney Plus Financial Losses" (DIS)

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From Bounding Into Comics, November 25: According to a new report, recently ousted Disney CEO Bob Chapek is alleged to have engaged in a se...

"This Foreign Company Wants To Mine Massive Amounts of Lithium in Nevada. First, It Must Overcome Its China Problem"

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The first thing that has to be understood is that the Chinese government/Communist Party claims universal jurisdiction for its laws, i.e. be...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

Minsky, Inflation, And The Deflationary Bloc

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From Phenomenal World: “An effective way to write the history of the last thirty years of the twentieth centur...

Cass Sunstein and the Nudge People

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From Tablet Magazine, September 13: Neoliberal Twee Cass Sunstein’s latest TED Talk of a book offers the kind of technocratic whimsy that le...

Australia Backs-Off Of Covid Boosters For 30-and-Younger Population

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From the Sydney Morning Herald, November 12: Why you won’t get another COVID shot this year, despite rising cases One of the nation’s top ad...

De-Dollarization: "Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars"

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As the strong dollar wreaks havoc on emerging market currencies they will say no to the dollar. Today's story follows on March 23's ...

"Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century"

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As the old-timers used to say, "Pay attention or pay the offer." From The Guardian: Thu 27 Oct 2022 01.00 EDT Last modified on Wed...

"China may have 'passed the point of no return' as Covid infections soar"

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First up, CNBC's Sam Vadas: China may have 'passed the point of no return' as Covid infections soar https://t.co/huWN9SUIQY — S...

Hold All Tickets!! We Have A Stewards Enquiry On The Question Of The World's Fastest (accelerating) Electric Car

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Following up on November 23's " The five cars that stole the show at the Los Angeles Auto Show ". From New Atlas Pininfarina B...

"Whisky pros reveal how to avoid investment scams"

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From Spears' Magazine, November 21: Since whisky has emerged as a profitable asset class, the inevitable has happened, with unscrupulou...

Media: BuzzFeed's Drooping Market Cap (BZFD)

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What they need is another Steele Dossier , that got people clicking.  Or more money from cornerstone investors NBC Universal and Andreessen ...
Friday, November 25, 2022

"Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation" (with a shout-out to Izabella Kaminska)

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From American Affairs Journal, Winter 2022, Volume VI, Number 4 S o far, the year 2022 has certainly looked like a deflating technology bubb...

"November 26, 1922, marks what is arguably the most famous discovery in the history of archaeology"

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From the MIT Press Reader: The Archaeology of Inequality Ancient skeletons, funerary practices, and DNA reveal layers of inequality in past ...