I write "Being There" on Substack and a column for The Guardian. Veteran of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Washington Post. Author of "The Price of Everything" and "American Poison." https://substack.com/@eduardoelreportero
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Who cares if AI obliterates human labor when it offers the opportunity to transcend our body and conquer the galaxy? The overlords of AI are not building tools to help humans expand their capabilities. They are investing in a superhuman future. eduardoelreportero.substack.com/p/the-future...
It’s refreshing, in a perverse sort of way, to see Donald Trump reveal MAGA America’s true corruption. open.substack.com/pub/eduardoe...
Mexico and South Africa kick off the World Cup today at the Azteca, and protesters from the teachers’ union have spread across Mexico City to disrupt the festivities. There have been demonstrations, marches... pipe bombs! The reason? Mainly retirement security.
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For all the random violence Trump has inflicted on the world, however misguided his economic policies, his belligerent approach to trade originates in a legitimate concern, one which a growing number of other countries are coming to share: China is a problem.
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The world is careening toward a financial upheaval that could well dwarf the damage caused by the Great Financial Crisis. What is terrifying about this is not the specific nature of the crisis, but the incompetence with which it will be handled.
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From Rabbi Byron L. Sherwin, in “Golems Among Us.” Wisdom “is knowing what to do with what we know and with what we can do… Wisdom is also knowing when, whether and why to do what we can do.” So why are we doing this?
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Here’s a way to look at the outrageous prices FIFA is charging to go to World Cup games. Almost half of Mexican workers earn the minimum wage of $315 pesos a day. A ticket to the opener between Mexico and South Africa will cost them 341 days of work.
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this is going to go on all summer, isn't it
Reduced trust among Ds and Is without restoring it among Rs
#CorruptAF
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🆕 Yikes, I know the Great Barrington Declaration/MAHA/MAGA dudes who run the US federal health & health research systems promised to boost trust in public health, but, surprise (!), a new study shows such trust has FALLEN DRAMATICALLY in the first year of Trump 2.0
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In the months after “Liberation Day” last year, when President Trump let loose a volley of tariffs against imports from everywhere, countries rushed to build new relationships in the hope of maybe cir...
After Amazon gave $1M to Trump's inauguration, Trump installed Amazon's former lawyer to head the NLRB.
Now the agency has ended a major case investigating Amazon's mistreatment of its contract drivers with a slap-on-the-wrist settlement.
This is what a quid pro quo looks like.
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
