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Plastic Recycling Is Mostly Fictional. Trump’s EPA Approves.
Jacobin • Sep 6, 2025

Plastic Recycling Is Mostly Fictional. Trump’s EPA Approves.

The Trump administration recently removed a major roadblock for chemical recycling, an unproven set of technologies that the oil and plastic industries are pitching as a panacea to the world’s plastic pollution crisis. Now, amid an unprecedented lobbying push and with corporate allies ensconced in key regulatory agencies, the industries are clamoring for a nationwide […]

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Won’t Be the End
Jacobin • Sep 6, 2025

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Won’t Be the End

A report from MIT says that the overwhelming majority of generative artificial intelligence implementations are failing — 95 percent of them, in fact. That’s a lot of failure. For a series of technologies touted as the answer to every question ever asked, literally and figuratively, the incapacity of companies to effectively integrate AI into their […]

France Won’t Take Emmanuel Macron’s Austerity Agenda
Jacobin • Sep 6, 2025

France Won’t Take Emmanuel Macron’s Austerity Agenda

“When we return from the summer break, there’ll be a clash between reality and ideology.” Thus insisted French prime minister François Bayrou at yet another press conference to defend his austerity budget, which promises an extra €44 billion in spending cuts. Bayrou here echoed the usual neoliberal refrain: public debt is an absolute evil, and […]

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