These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to. And in the past, you would have to go on a journey. You can lay down trail markers that other people could follow, and you could make maps. AI tools are like taking a helicopter to drop you off at the site. You miss […]
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We have some thoughts on the latest round of Doctor Who Christmas Special rumours: David Tennant, Billie Piper, filming schedules, and more.
Despite the pervasive uncertainties surrounding their assumptions, economic modellers frequently confine their expressions of uncertainty to those generated from within the very assumptions they have chosen to embed in their models — thereby creating a false sense of precision while ignoring deeper sources of ignorance. Econometrics offers a series of cautionary tales in which highly […]
Neoclassical economics is known for its illicit use of garbled language which hides and convolutes instead of explains … An interesting example is the chapter by Edward Prescott, titled ‘RBC Methodology and the Development of Aggregate Economic Theory’. Let’s first give the floor to him, mind that ‘leisure’ means ‘measured unemployment’: “What turned out to […]
It happened on a weekend. While representatives of the two nations were still negotiating, a fleet of aircraft carriers from one of the negotiating parties approached the territory of the other.
Acting with cold premeditation, early in the morning of that fateful day, the attacking forces did their deed causing devastating damages on the other side.
As it turned out, the negotiations were merely a cover, a deception, to fool de victims.
It was treachery.
But it worked.
The Doomsday Clock was effective Cold War theatre, but does it fail to convey the threat of today’s slowly unfolding existential crises?
The tendency to think of climate change as something in humanity’s future, as opposed to something that is unfolding now, in real time and with lethal consequences, has retreated a little in recent months.
Superficially, at least, David Rieff seems well placed to write a book about woke culture. For one thing, cultural criticism runs in the family: his parents were Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff – both intellectuals with a keen understanding of how subjectivities are shaped by social change. For another, his own work has often displayed an astute grasp of the fraught relationship between the historical, the political and the psychological.
My sense is that political cartoonists are finding it pretty difficult to encapsulate the events of the last two weeks in our sunburnt country girt by sea. Not because they are so depressing: a good cartoonist can always wring dark humour from a tragedy. But because they are so clearly self-satirising.
I thank Alessandra Panizza for taking the time to review Brave New Wild (Jan-Feb), and for her forthright defence of an alternative model of social and scientific development, but her review contains a number of claims (or implications) that misconstrue my argument.
After weeks of military threats, and despite ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the US and Israel have combined to rain bombs on cities across Iran.
The post Stop Trump and Israel’s bloody bombing of Iran first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The US and Israel claim to have killed Khameini. Iran says they missed. Either way it doesn’t matter much, the Iranian response of hitting US bases and Israel hasn’t been effected. They’ve also declared the Straits of Hormuz closed. If Khameini was killed, he is far more likely to be replaced by hawk than a […]
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts. Nothing on the new Iran war, I’ll have a post up on that soon.
Janet Fielding on returning to film a mini-episode of Doctor Who that serves as a "sequel" to her final story, "Resurrection of the Daleks."
The killing of drug cartel kingpin El Mencho has led to retaliatory violence in Mexico — much of it carried out with American-made guns.
The post Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico appeared first on The Intercept.
Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.
The post Defying repression and police violence: Lessons from the 1978 Mardi Gras first appeared on Solidarity Online.
. Det finns ju numera väldigt många ‘chefsekonomer’ på tankesmedjor och banker som valsar runt i medierna — men ingen så väl värd att lyssna på som Max Jerneck. I stället för det vanliga tyckmyckentrutade pladdret från televisionens och dagstidningarnas ekonomiredaktioner har vi här någon som faktiskt gör sig mödan att på djupet analysera saker […]
Between burnout and bore-out, there lies an optimal level of stress that can motivate you and enhance your performance
- Video by University of the Netherlands
When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers
- by James Edgar Lim
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
- by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen