Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Fraud, So Much Fraud
September 27th, 2024Hmm, I wonder what other aspects of medical research are subject to, “Multiple, widespread, blatant instances of fraud”… Get your boosters, though. *snort* Via: Science: It’s about Eliezer Masliah, who since 2016 has been the head of the Division of Neuroscience in the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and whose scientific publication record over at […]
Biden: Another $8 Billion for Ukraine
September 26th, 2024Via: The Hill: President Biden on Thursday announced an estimated $8 billion in aid for Ukraine, drawing down billions of dollars in military stockpiles from the Pentagon that were at risk of expiring Sept. 30, providing an additional Patriot air defense battery and expanding training for F-16 pilots. Related: Israel Says It Has Secured $8.7 […]
Degrees of Deception: How America’s Universities Became Debt Factories
September 25th, 2024Via: Anand Sanwal: …there’s a reason this broken system persists. It’s not just inertia or incompetence. It’s because there are powerful, entrenched interests that profit handsomely from the status quo. They cloak themselves in the noble rhetoric of education, but their actions tell a different story: skyrocketing tuition, subpar outcomes, and a generation drowning in […]
California Fast Food Chains Replacing Employees with Robots
September 23rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Chipotle has introduced two robots that can take over tasks normally done by its workers. The ‘autocado’ can peel, stone and cut an avocado for guacamole in 26 seconds. Meanwhile, a ‘digital makeline’ portions up salads and bowls based on orders on the app. The machines are part of an automation drive […]
Interrogation of Trump Doral Shooter Jonathan Oddi: “Do You Know Sean Combs?” “Puff Daddy?” “Yeah.”
September 20th, 2024[???] Is Jonathan Oddi alive? I have not been able to figure that out. Jonathan Oddi remains in jail and his trial is ongoing. He has not yet been sentenced. This has been going since 2018!? Case Information Court Case No.: F18010338 State Case No.: 132018CF0103380001XX In other news, Diddy placed on suicide watch. Via: […]
Microsoft Electricity Purchase Agreement Will Restart Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant for AI Data Centers
September 20th, 2024Via: The Verge: Microsoft just signed a deal to revive the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. If approved by regulators, the software maker would have exclusive rights to 100 percent of the output for its AI data center needs. Constellation, the owner of the Three Mile Island plant, announced a power purchase agreement […]
Australia’s Biggest Medical Imaging Lab Is Training AI on Its Scan Data Without Patient Consent
September 19th, 2024Via: Crikey: Australia’s biggest radiology company has handed over the private medical scans of potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, without their knowledge, to a start-up company that will use the scans to train artificial intelligence, in what privacy experts say is a practice that the law should protect against.
Fed Slashes Rates By 50bps
September 18th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: The economy is so great, it needs an crisis-level rate cut 2 months before the election.
How Did You Know To Question Their Health Advice?
September 17th, 2024pic.twitter.com/RTIiBoeghz — cryptogon (@cryptogon) September 17, 2024
Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure Good Behavior, Says Larry Ellison
September 17th, 2024In 2017, I wrote about where I thought mass surveillance was headed in the U.S.: I think the reality is that a dossier on every “citizen” is being automatically maintained. The dossier contains everything from purchases to Internet activity, audio from phone calls, to full contents of emails. Income. Library records. Travel records. etc. Additionally, […]
