CNN+, the streaming service that the news organization hyped as the most significant initiative in the network's history since it went on air in 1980, will shut down April 30, just over one month after it launched.

Relevant to my previous post about a dreaming, captive octopus...

As the US government is reconsidering what a monopoly means (and potentially breaking tech companies), Facebook is trying to change its behavior before the government forces it to change. For example they are backing off from potential _...Read More_

Bizarrely, emissions from global trade do not appear in any nation’s carbon accounting.…in 2007, Britain imported 15,000 tons of chocolate-covered waffles, while exporting 14,000 tons. In 2017, the US both imported and exported nearly 1.5 _...Read More_

The Space Silk Road stretches out the concept that those who will develop the infrastructure for establishing material trade can also disseminate open cultural norms across the network by way of soft power.

Reality kicking back in the trade war comedy going on

“With more than 360,000 Chinese students enrolled in U.S. institutions, Chinese visitors account for one-third of the foreign undergraduates and graduate students studying in the United States. To put that into scale: That number is about _...Read More_

Get ready for USA to kick Ass all alone no allies!

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she favors a U.S.-Russian summit, seeking to push global diplomacy forward after a tumultuous meeting of Group of Seven leaders."

Even before modern times the Afro-Eurasian world was already well connected. This map depicts the main trading arteries of the high middle ages, just after the decline of the Vikings and before the rise of the Mongols, the Hansa and well _...Read More_