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Phase Four: When the Algorithm Decides You Can’t Buy Bread (And the Infrastructure is Already Live)

Conspiracy Theories

[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: The following analysis synthesizes verified central bank documentation, BIS technical specifications, and commercial banking disclosures through Q2 2025. The trajectory described is extrapolated from stated policy objectives and existing infrastructure deployment. We present the data as found. The conclusions are unavoidable. — T.Z. The sterilization of commerce began not with prohibition but with friction. You noticed it first in the parking meter that no longer accepted coins, then in the café’s “card only” sign handwritten in marker, then in your own hesitation at handling bills that suddenly seemed suspect, unsanitary, archaic. Each instance felt minor. Aggregate them across…

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Unionized delivery drivers vs. deliveries

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] One would think that delivery drivers would be natural supporters of delivery services. Not if you’re the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.  Through lobbying efforts and lawsuits, the union has made itself the primary enemy of any business or industry that might ship goods or drop off packages without employing unionized drivers (or any drivers, for that matter).  The Teamsters have come out in force to support New York City’s Delivery Protection Act (DPA), which would require companies like Amazon to hire delivery drivers as full-time employees—an effective ban on the company’s current practice of hiring out deliveries to smaller…

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CN Live! — ‘The Last Empire’ – Consortium News

Independent Journalism

[ad_1] Abby Martin joins CN Live! to discuss her newest film, The Earth’s Greatest Enemy, about U.S. militarism, empire and environmental destruction.  8 p.m. Tonite! There have been about 70 major empires in world history beginning with the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon the Great in Mesopotamia 2334 BCE. The United States Empire may well be the last. A continuation of the British empire after breaking with London, the Americans conquered their own continent in genocide; built its early economy on slavery; seized remaining parts of the decrepit Spanish Empire and then dominated the non-communist parts of the world following…

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The Life and Death and Life of Repressed Memories

Truth or Scare

[ad_1] You can’t keep a bad idea down. You fight it with all weapons at hand—science, reason, research, history, and, when they fail, yelling—until you are sure it is dead as a doornail. Then, one day while you are quietly reading the latest terrifying news, you see a revenant: the corpse reawakens. For us, that was last year’s blockbuster, Amy Griffin’s The Tell, which told readers that although she had no evidence supporting her MDMA-triggered “recovered” memory of being sexually abused in middle school, she knows it happened. No corroboration from teachers or classmates about it, no supporting evidence from…

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The Cascade of Dysfunction That Helped Doom Jason Arday

Politics & Policy

[ad_1] Instead, thanks to a cascade of institutional dysfunction that will go down in history as uniquely bizarre and condescending—even by the considerable standards of higher ed misadministration—Jason Arday found himself in an environment where no one would say no to him, where no one would ask follow-up questions (at least out loud), and where people covered for him rather than holding him accountable. As a result, he did significant harm—to the scholars he plagiarized, the peers he wrongly beat out for a prestigious position, and (everyone keeps forgetting this) to the parents of nonverbal kids with autism, who are…

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