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Links 6/1/2024 | naked capitalism
Meet world”s first edible robot Bangkok Post (furzy) Scientists have discovered a 50,000-year-old herpes virus – and perhaps how modern…
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Private Equity Seeks to Foist Companies It Can’t Sell on Employees
A recent Financial Times article on private equity woes in an era of high interest rates contains many amusingly coded…
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Criminalizing the Unhoused Is Inherently Cruel
Yves here. I am not keen about the term “unhoused’ as opposed to “homeless” or better yet, the British term…
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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/10/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day American Goldfinch, Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat–Walden & Sawhill Ponds all…
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Will Human-to-Human Bird Flu (H5N1) Be the Long-Awaited “Disease X?”
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1(“Bird Flu”)[1], which is global, rapidly spreading, and “highly pathogenic,” is…
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2:00PM Water Cooler 4/4/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. House Wren, Kingston Canyon Rd., Lander, Nevada, United States. Look for the Helpers Not merely…
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“Ensh*ttification”: A General Theory for the Life Cycle of the Firm?
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Betteridge’s Law, but hear me out. “Enshittification”[1] — I won’t use the asterisk in prose,…
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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/29/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged), Sapsucker Woods, Tompkins, New York, United States.…
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2:00PM Water Cooler 3/26/2024 | naked capitalism
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Bird Song of the Day Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged), Stauffer’s Marsh, Berkeley, West Virginia, United States.…
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Matt Taibbi: “Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism”
For those of you who have not seen Matt Taibbi’s piece on Google’s threat to demonetize us over flawed, even…
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