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Dump Trucks, AI, and Unemployment
In the good old days, dump trucks came in one discrete unit. Nowadays, they pull trailers with as…
Rob Urie: Why Taming the Power of Capital is Needed for Environmental Resolution
Yves here. Rob Urie’s wide-ranging article takes on the long and (save at its outset) deliberate failure of…
Links 8/14/2026 | naked capitalism
A brief note on our daily programming: Yves will have a short Iran war update a little later…
The (Attempted) “Israelisation” of Latin America (Part II)
Israel has accomplished big things in very little time. But is it sustainable? A couple of years ago,…
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Humanoid Soldiers and Vanishing Valor
For most of the history of robotics, contests between robots and humans have been entertaining precisely because they…
A Failed Murder-for-Hire Plot in Bolivia Exposes the Inner Workings of the US’s Donroe Doctrine
The rise and fall of “Maga’s Man” in Latin America. Since Trump’s return to the White House in…
