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I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.

I’m sick of the AI hype and scaremongering. The idea that AI could take over the world is laughable.

Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis.

247 Ureports US Diesel Shortage Deepens as Stations Report Running Dry, Prices Hit Record Highs

Efficiency isn't a tool for conserving energy --- it's a catalyst for technological sprawl.

A Florida Republican from Donald Trump's home district could potentially face the death penalty under a law he had championed as a state legislator.Mike Caruso, the Palm Beach County clerk of courts a...

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

The Impact of AI on Global Energy, Emissions, Water Use, and More

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.

The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...

The US military is the most expensive armed force on the planet. But what exactly does this spending buy?

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

Abstract In the tradition of Classical Political Economy, empirical studies of labor values and prices ask whether labor-value vectors are close to observed market-price vectors. This paper examines t...

Diagnostic interviews seen as ‘gold standard’ vary in reliability from condition to condition, study says