Progress toward Ending US Government Funding for NPR and PBS
On November 9, a few days after Donald Trump won election to return to the White House, I wrote an article titled “Defunding NPR.” In the article, I presented reasons why “a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for [Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk] and the incoming Donald Trump administration to […]
Economy
Ultra-Processed Life
Consuming more of this Ultra-Processed World is not a path to “the good life,” it’s a path to the destruction and derangement of an Ultra-Processed Life. The digital realm, finance, and junk food have something in common: they’re all ultra-processed, synthetic versions of Nature that have been designed to be compellingly addictive, to the detriment of our health and […]
Empire
The History of the Welfare State is the History of the State’s Savage War of Aggrandizement and Seizure of Authority Against Civil Society
The history of the welfare state is the history of the state’s savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society. Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the “voluntary sector” of civil society and those intermediary […]
Activism
The Post-Lockdown Disorientation in the Arts
Snow White, the live-action version cobbled together by Disney, opened over the weekend with devastating reviews and empty theaters coast to coast. In my community, there were no sellout crowds on opening day and the thinning turned to zero tickets in the final afternoon and evening of the weekend. No showings are scheduled past Wednesday. […]
Health
Bill Gates says AI will replace doctors, teachers within 10 years — and claims humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’
Guest Post by Ariel Zilber Bill Gates predicted that advancements in artificial intelligence will significantly reduce humanity’s role in many traditional tasks such as medicine and education — and the seismic shift could happen in less than 10 years. During a recent interview with comedian Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” the Microsoft co-founder described […]
Tech
Bill Gates: Within 10 Years, Humans Won’t Be Needed ‘For Most Things’
Humans are endowed with intelligence. Machines are not. This is the great fakery. Here is the ignorant fallacy: Microsoft CEO says that “will unlock enormous amounts of economic growth, but they are fundamentally labor replacing.” first, human work is the source of all economic activity; second, if “wages crash,” as Marc Andreessen thinks, it will […]
Crypto
GameStop Raising $1.3B Via Convertible Debt to Buy Bitcoin
The offering comes 24 hours after the company announced its intention to begin adding bitcoin to its balance sheet. What to know: Just 24 hours after adding its name to the roster of companies pursuing a bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategy, GameStop (GME) — led by its CEO Ryan Cohen — is also adding its name […]
Podcasts
Solutions
Progress toward Ending US Government Funding for NPR and PBS
On November 9, a few days after Donald Trump won election to return to the White House, I wrote an article titled “Defunding NPR.” In the article, I presented reasons why “a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for [Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk] and the incoming Donald Trump administration to […]