Saturday, October 12, 2024

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/11/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics; Friday’s charts: RCP averages (good week for Trump); Covid (XEC has entered the chat); What, again, was Kamala thinking?! Boeing files unfair labor practice charge with NLRB against machinists (wowsers) ~

Economic Models Ignoring “Look Out the Window” Climate Change Effects

Supposed forecasting mavens are simply ignoring the real economy effects, like poor harvests, of climate change.

Links 10/11/2024

Norway, One of World’s Most Cashless Economies, Just Made It A Lot Easier to Pay With Cash

Recent trends and developments in Northern Europe suggest the shift away from cash and toward purely digital payment systems may have reached its upper limits — at least for now.

Mapping the Solidarity Economy

A worker-owned collective helps Chicagoans find mutual aid-based organizations, in the face of a weakening economy and social safety nets.

“So You Don’t Like Trump or Harris – Here’s Why It’s Still Best to Vote for One of Them”

An academic contends that protest and third party votes are counterproductive.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/10/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler; Harris leads in the burbs (poll); 2024 state round-up; Boeing negotiations stalled; and another QA debacle; “The illusion of information adequacy” ~

The Fight to Hold Executives and Boards Accountable Continues in Barclays and Bayer Appeals

An update on two cases, one against Barclays, the other Bayer executives and directors, which seek accountability in New York courts.

Links 10/10/2024

Satyajit Das: US Presidential Politics – The More They Bicker, the More They Stay the Same

US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol

Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily

A new paper in Nature finds that exceeding a 1.5°C increase in global temperature is more deadly and durable than previously thought.

11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live By

Seeking reader reactions to recommendations on how to engage in “media activism”.

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/9/2024

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics, Pandemics; fun with maps: Helene and Milton could make Pennsylvania the key; Kamala has a beer with Stephen Colbert; on hurricanes; Response to Helene in NC; Boeing talks break down as management walks away from the table. ~

Netanyahu Goes Even More Rogue, Announces Intent to Turn Lebanon into Gaza, Refuses to Inform US of Iran Strike Plans [Update]

Netanyahu, drunk on his power and his love of destruction, keeps upping the ante.

Links 10/9/2024