March, 2023 archive
Attrition Amok 0
My old friend Noz runs the numbers.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Mike Kelly of northjersey.com goes on a road trip and finds the force that holds Trump World together.
Suffer the Children 0
It’s not just scripture. It’s Republican policy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes a child to politeness.
In the United States, there are now more guns than people.
Make no mistake: the common denominator in all these incidents is not the responsible gun owners, nor is it the victims, children or otherwise. It’s not even the stupid.
It’s the guns.
It’s All about the Algorithm Ambulances
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Yet one more indication that “social” media isn’t.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Mike Littwin is an optimist.
QOTD 0
Amy Pietz, in the voice of Annie Spadaro:
It’s the internet. No one knows who you really are. You can say what you want.
The Anti-Social Algorithm 0
Emma talks with Dr. Nicholas Kardaras about how and why “social” media isn’t.
Guns and Posers 0
The ADL runs the numbers. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the report.
Mending a Malicious Misreading 0
At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kim Jackson, Josh Noblitt, and Joshua Lesser remind us that, under the U. S. Constitution, the “Establishment Clause” not only guarantees freedom of religion, it also guarantees freedom from religion.
Foxy Shady 0
The writer of a letter to the editor at NJ.com thinks it’s time to close the cable TV loophole.
Methinks the writer has a point.
The regulation of radio and, later, television was based on their using a public resource, that is, the airwaves. In its very early days, cable was exempted from regulation on the theory that it did not use the airwaves and therefore should be exempt. (Mind you, this was back when the “fairness doctrine” still applied to broadcast media.) Cable has grown to dominate, even in areas where broadcast is freely available.
And it, like the internet, has become a disinformation superhighway (primarily for “news” organizations that lean right, because the truth leans left).
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
It’s All about the Algorithm, the Snaring Economy Dept. 0
Emma talks with Adrian Hon about the “gamification” of the work place in this, the snaring economy.
It’s not a pretty picture.