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There was a mass murder. I know, this is America, so I have to be...
Barely a word has been spoken by his Coalition colleagues against former Prime Minister Scott Morrison's secret ministerial power grab. read now...“I didn’t think it was very smart to be wearing white to dinner with me,” the former President said. “When I eat, a lot of ketchup goes flying.”
Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
Since the 1970s, economists buying into the Chicago School of Antitrust have waved off the dangers of lax antitrust policies, professing that “the market” would sort out issues of competition and punish companies that abuse size and power. The Chicagoans’ narrow focus on direct consumer costs as the sole measure of harm didn't consider the impact of consolidation on small businesses, start-ups, workers, or, for that matter, democratic norms. Nor did it raise red flags for tech platforms that were touted as “free” for users (while monetizing our attention and personal data).
A growing number of critics argue that these basic assumptions are both wrong and outdated, as evidenced by the fact that in many industries, particularly technology, companies have been growing to gargantuan proportions and, as anybody who owns a smartphone is painfully aware, they seem free to gobble competitors, hinder innovation, and serve up crappy, overpriced products.
One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The small but energetic Democratic Socialists of America contingent within the House Democrats, and in roles within the states and communities, has not gone away. Sanders and AOC continue to be very vocal and visible in political debate and action from their socialist perspectives. The widely anticipated Republican wave not only failed to sweep away mainstream Democrats; it also failed to dislodge the socialists.
The post What is Socialism All About? appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
Last week, several news outlets reported that Qatar’s World Cup apps pose serious privacy and security risks. Visitors to Qatar are required to download two apps: Ehteraz, a COVID-19 tracking application, and Hayya, which allows fans entry into the football stadiums and access to transportation services. In particular, Ehteraz can read and write to a […]
Lake was locked in a fierce struggle with a rival identified by several onlookers as her nine-year-old niece Paisley.
Next semester, I’ll be teaching American Political Theory (POLS 3404), meeting 9:30-10:45 on Mondays and Wednesdays. We’ll focus on two topics only: slavery and neoliberalism. Registration is now officially open for the class. During the first half of the course, we’ll be addressing the relationship between slavery and capitalism through a selection of primary and second readings. Our texts will include Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death, Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery, Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism, Eugene Genovese’s The Political Economy of Slavery, Frederick Douglass’ Narrative, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, and various texts and treatises from the slaveholders, including Thomas Dew, William Harper, James Henry Hammond, Josiah Nott, and […]
This article continues the previous discussion of bank net interest margins. In it, I discussed how changes in the yield curve changed the net interest margin (NIM) for banks.
Attempts to solve social problems with draconian regulation of internet services won’t help victims. Amendments are flooding in with a raft of new proposals. [1] Controversial scanning of private messages risks WhatsApp pulling services from the UK. [2] The Online Safety Bill is set to return to Parliament next week. A flood of recent amendments […]
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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Doctor Who, James Gunn/DCU, Star Trek, Velma, 1923, Rick and Morty, Andor, MCU timeline, and lots more.
The spread of misinformation online has been recognized as a growing social problem. In responding to the issue, social media platforms have (i) promoted the services of third-party fact-checkers; (ii) removed producers of misinformation and downgraded false content; and (iii) provided contextual information for flagged content, empowering users to determine the veracity of information for themselves. In a recent staff report, we develop a flexible model of misinformation to assess the efficacy of these types of interventions. Our analysis focuses on how well these measures incentivize users to verify the information they encounter online.
Αμέσως μόλις εξαγόρασε το Twitter και αυτοανακηρύχθηκε σε Chief Twit, ο Elon Musk δήλωσε πως δεσμεύεται να προστατεύσει τη φύση της πλατφόρμας ως μια «δημόσια πλατεία» όπου συζητούνται τα πάντα. Ήταν μια έξυπνη τακτική γιατί απέσπασε επιτυχώς την προσοχή του κοινού από τις πραγματικές του προθέσεις. Ο Elon Musk είχε κάθε λόγο να νιώθει ένα κενό που […]
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An analysis of January to November 2021 data found that supply chain disruptions were an important source of PPI inflation during that period.
Blaming migration on “repressive dictatorships” allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. This article was originally published on November 23, 2022 by COHA. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1½ years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this has become a story, and government detractors argue, with little evidence, that people are fleeing political […]
The post US sanctions and economic conditions drive Nicaraguan migration, while Washington blames repression appeared first on The Grayzone.
Human rights protests at the FIFA Qatar World Cup were a weak affair as focus was placed back on the sport itself. read now...Dave Winer asked me to take a look at the document What is a document? I decided to put my hat on as co-editor of ActivityStreams 2.0 (AS2) and co-author of ActivityPub (AP) to see how well our definitions met the features of a document. Most of the “things” in AS2 are types of Object. … Continue reading Documents in ActivityPub
My laptop was stolen from me on the Vienna to Frankfurt train on Saturday. I had been working on a blog article on the train. Approaching Frankfurt I packed up ready to get off, and went to the loo. When I returned the laptop had vanished from the laptop bag. The charger was still there […]
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