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OTTAWA, Feb. 8, 2018 /CNW/ - Today, Grey, Clark, Shih and Associates, Limited (GCS) released an updated report detailing how the American governme...

Comparing government support for Canadian versus American dairy farmers is not a simple black and white process. While Canada's dairy sector operates under a regulated supply management system, the U.S. government's support for its dairy farmers is less direct. Support, in its various forms, equaled 73 percent of U.S. dairy farmers' market returns in 2015, according to a report published by a Canadian trade consulting firm on Thursday. The 588-page study by Grey, Clark, Shih and Associates — commissioned by Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) — says the American government contributed around $22.2 billion in direct and indirect subsidies to the dairy sector in 2015. Lead author Peter Clark shared the numbers at DFC's annual policy conference in Ottawa this week. "The...

Prices are rising at the fastest pace in decades, creating a cost-of-living crisis that’s forcing people around the world to make tough choices about what to buy.

The USA horrifyingly ranks worse than Russia and China on economic inequality, and if we hope to prevent catastrophic economic collapse, we need change ASAP

404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies. Google has kicked CMG off its Partner Program in response.

(Originally published on Mastodon, where I get these kinds of comments all the time.) X: We need systemic changes to tackle the climate crisis, guilting people into turning off their air con is pointless, we need to address corporate behaviour.

Will more funding be needed to keep Intel competitive?

Gary Chartier | Defenders of freed markets have good reason to identify their position as a species of “anti-capitalism.”[1] To explain why, I distinguish three potential meanings of “capitalism” before...

It’s the end of an era.

Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.

A new peer-reviewed study claims that cryptocurrency enthusiasts are higher in "Dark Triad" traits than your average person.

A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses

When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.

Robinson has been blamed for stoking the unrest, but the tentacles of disinformation are global. Nafeez Ahmed uncovers a worrying nexus of tech platforms and far-right conspiracy – with links to Europe, Russia and the January 6 insurrection

Playing the state’s energy market has become more profitable than mining bitcoin

The privileged classes would never dream of saying one form of family life is better than another. So why are they always married?

As part of the xz discussion, some asserted that “paying maintainers doesn’t work—we tried to give people money and they wouldn’t take it.” Suffice to say, at Tidelift, we think... Read More

There’s no evidence that banishing sex buyers from Aurora and other “areas of prostitution” has had any impact, either. By…

For decades, military practitioners and academics have come up with theories, evidence, and examples that indicate that offensive cyber operations might revolutionize modern warfare. Others have made an equally impressive case that refutes that such operations would even be relevant, making it hard to reach any definite conclusions. This paper introduces a novel analytical framework to assess offensive cyber operations based on the circumstances of their use across the different phases of war, from shaping operations prior to the conflict to the actual battlefield. This framework substantially simplifies the key questions of practitioners and academics in order to pose the more direct question: Where, when, and how might offensive cyber operations affect warfare outcomes, both today and in the future?

Link: The Changing Role of the U.S. Dollar / Brookings TLDR: Whether it’s sanctions overuse, U.S. political dysfunction or crypto-led fintech innov…

Breaking down Trump's ties to Russia and his effort to extort the Ukrainian government for political gain.

Map found on reddit

at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lurking among us are anonymous heroes who quietly amplify social cohesion. Here's what we can learn from them.

Readers discuss a guest essay that argued that we should be.

boo fucking hoo, you sad losers

Here’s a hypothetical situation. You decide to build your own steam generator plant and connect it to the electric grid. No matter where you live, you’d probably have to meet a ton of r…

American history is much more about rapid and cheap transport than about extremes of population density.  Even New York, our densest major city by far, became dense relatively late in American history.  To this day, the United States is not extremely dense, not say by European or East Asian standards. But in American history, themes […]

Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

A 17-year-old student has launched a dedicated portal to exposing Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist to the public.