Saturday, August 16, 2025
CBO Confirms Trump Budget Law Will Trigger Over $500 Billion in Automatic Medicare Cuts
Tax breaks for billionaires are set to force over half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
How Much Energy Does ChatGPT’s Newest Model Consume?
ChatGPT’s environmental destructiveness is increasing by leaps and bounds.
Coffee Break: AI Deskills Healthcare, mRNA on the Block, Three Hominins Living Together, the Workweek, and a College Essay Worth Reading
Part the First: AI and Deskilling in Healthcare. Yes, it does happen as described in the news article As AI spreads through health care, is the technology degrading providers’ skills? (New study suggests that, after having a specialized tool taken away, clinicians were less proficient at colonoscopies): The AI colonoscopy tool rolled out across four […]
‘Alternative Facts’ Aren’t a Reason To Skip Vaccines
Just because RFK, Jr. is wrong on vaccines does not make vaccine orthodoxy correct.
Peak Neoliberalism: Wall Street Journal Pearl-Clutches Over Lack of Mobility Due to High Housing Costs, Insufficient Pay
The Journal laments how mobility has fallien while averting its eyes from how neoliberalsm and rentierism are the drivers.
Netanyahu’s Argentine Dilemma Reinforces Just How Isolated He Has Become On the Global Stage
Javier Milei is desperate to declare Netanyahu an “honorary resident” of Argentina. But if the Israeli prime minister visits the South American country, he could face arrest.
Exactly What Is in the Ivy League Deals with the Trump Administration – and How They Compare
Details on some of the Trump agreements with top universities, such as the gap between the antisemitism bludgeon and what Trump got.
In Latin America, the US Is Showing What the Future World-Order Might Look Like
The rules-based order is giving way to one of ‘sphere of influence,’ and in Latin America the U.S. is showing what could look like one
Cancer Super-Survivors May Hold Keys to New Treatments
Researchers typically ask why people get cancer. What if they studied why some survive — or never develop the disease?
Sanders Bill Would Fight Trump Effort to ‘Dismantle Social Security’
A Sanders effort to preserve Social Security shows some of the Trump vectors of attack.
James Galbraith: From the Fossil-Fuel Civilization Into …? Economics Gets a Biophysical Reality Check
James Galbraith argues that economics can’t keep ignoring that energy and resources for production are no longer abundant and easy to access
Thomas Neuburger: Our Lawless Elites
Tracing the increased concentration of power in our elites, and how Trump is in the process of consolidating it in his person.
