Suffocating an Island: What the U.S. Blockade Is Doing to Cuba
Yves here. Medea Benjamin provides a vivid and distressing report of the intensifying distress in Cuba produced by the US oil blockage. It’s hit the
Reuters Finds AI-Using Surgery Devices Harmed Patients; Nature Magazine and Reuters Find Medical Chatbots Not Beating Patients’ Own Internet Sleuthing
We have been alarmed at how the profit-driven US medical system has been eagerly embracing AI despite ample evidence of uneven performance, such as too-frequent,
America’s Real Health Crisis? Inequality— and a Generation Pays
Yves here. This interview highlights a key issue that deserves far more attention than it gets: that our longevity-obsessed squillionaire class are working against their
An Effort to Ease Water Pollution With Oysters Fizzled. Why?
Conor here: I guess the oysters aren’t going to save us. By Mykal Bailey, a senior at Howard University with reporting interests in environmental justice
With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients
Conor here: Here we see the effects of ICE gaining access t nearly 80 million Medicaid patients, including patients’ banking “routing number, account type, account
Why Futuristic, Tech-Centered ‘Smart City’ Projects Are Destined To Fail
Yves here. The smart city vogue has been under way for a while. Some of this reflects a belief that new must be better. Others
Bitcoin/Crypto Crash Captures Headlines as Potentially More Serious Tech-Driven Debt Retreat Progresses
We’ll first turn to what looks like an accelerating rout in Bitcoin and other crypto currencies and then to what we see as potentially much