Ivan Illich – Echo Chamber 2016

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health – Illich

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

https://a.co/d/5sWUubf

NYTimes.com: Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town — Illich

Try Living in Elon Musk’s Company Town

To some, Elon Musk has given Brownsville, Texas, a reason for being, a future. To others, he’s a colonizer, flirting with white nationalists online while exploiting a predominantly brown work force.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-brownsville-texas.html?smid=em-share

**************** NYTimes.com: A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …

A Conservative Futurist and a Supply-Side Liberal Walk Into a Podcast …

Could the U. S. economy be twice as large today if it hadn’t made policy mistakes in the 1970s?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-pethokoukis.html?smid=em-share

The point they totally missed is how the concentration of wealth and its monopoly power in the economy has stifled innovative. See THE BIG AI RISK NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE SEEING

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/ai-dating-algorithms-relationships/678422/

******* “The cancer of bureaucracy: How it will destroy science, medicine, educ…” rj

Here is the link to “The cancer of bureaucracy: How it will destroy science, medicine, education; and eventually everything else”:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987709007956

*** Shouting Into the Institutional Void
“The protesters are railing against a society that isn’t cohesive enough to summon a response. They’re hammering on a hollowed-out structure, and it very well may collapse,” George Packer writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/protests-are-sign-despair/612724/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
****** History Will Judge the Complicit
What would it take for Republican leaders to admit to themselves that Trump’s loyalty cult is destroying the country they claim to love? @anneapplebaum asks. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
**** The Judges Who Serve at Trump’s Pleasure
American judges are well paid, unafraid of dismissal, and free from legal and political pressures. But that hasn’t stopped some of them from seeking to alter the law in egregiously partisan ways. @anneapplebaum on how judicial independence could end: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/judicial-independence-judge-aileen-cannon-trump/679561/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
****** NYTimes.com: Trump Dislikes Ukraine for the Most MAGA of Reasons
Trump Dislikes Ukraine for the Most MAGA of Reasons The country lies at the heart of overlapping conspiracy theories important to the former president. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/opinion/trump-debate-ukraine-russia.html?smid=em-share
The Gilded Age on PBS rj
Aired February 6, 2018 The Gilded Age on PBS The American Experience Gilded is not golden. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/gilded-age/ Film Description In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. The nation became the […]
*** NYTimes.com: MAGA vs. Science Is No Contest
MAGA vs. Science Is No Contest A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opinion/republicans-science-denial.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students
An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students It’s time for students to take back their independence. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/opinion/college-students-adulting.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students
An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students It’s time for students to take back their independence. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/opinion/college-students-adulting.html?smid=em-share
The Panopticon Is Already Here
China’s ascent to AI supremacy is a menacing prospect, @andersen writes, because the country’s political structure encourages, rather than restrains, this technology’s worst uses. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem
Facebook is giving the most abusive people on its platform too much power to shape what it is, write @MattHindman, @natelubin, and Trevor Davis. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/02/facebook-hate-speech-misinformation-superusers/621617/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social