2023 Layoffs: Spotify Slashes 6% Of Jobs In Latest Tech Onslaught

The "Good News" Is Always The Same: The Stock Market Is Up... Until It Isn't Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Cloaking a fake "market" with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. I often refer to the dynamics of self-correction and self-liquidation. Systems that use feedback to rebalance extremes are self-correcting: rather than accelerate as they approach a cliff, they slow down and reorganize to avoid runaway self-reinforcing feedback (i.e. positive feedback), a.k.a. run to failure. Some things are self-liquidating by...

Israel continued with its attacks on Lebanon today, following by far the single deadliest day in the war on Wednesday, in which at least 254 people were killed and well over 1,100 others were wounded. Lebanon has declared a national day of mourning today, as they continue to search for survivors in the rubble. Recovering […]

US Draft Registration Becomes 'Automatic' By Year-End: A Detailed Breakdown Authored by Edward Hasbrouck via AntiWar.com, On March 30th, the Selective Service System (SSS) sent the White House its proposed regulations for "automatic" [sic] draft registration for review and approval before they are made public. This is the first visible step in the transition from trying to get young men to sign themselves up for a military draft, to trying to sign them up “automatically” by aggregating data requisitioned from other Federal agencies. This year-long process began with the enactment of the SSS proposal for “automatic” registration in December 2025....