March, 2024 archive
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christine Louise Hohlbaum discusses David Donnelly’s documentary, The Cost of Convenience, which explores the extent to which corporate digital surveillance has been woven into our society and economy. Here’s an excerpt:
She ends the article with some suggestions as to how to fight back.
Me, I’m going to keep an eye out for the film.
Republican Family Values 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s attacks on Judge Juan Merchan’s daughter and points out that we do indeed have a two tier justice system. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Have you noticed that, when someone is actually found to have voted illegally, that someone almost always voted Republican?
“It’s Coming from Inside the House” 0
Thom talks with Sabrina Haake, who argues that Fox News ia far less trustworthy than TiKTok.
“Vote in the Real World” 0
I forget how many years I’ve been saying that over there—————-> on the sidebar, but it’s been a while.
Yesterday, I was gratified to learn that columnist Mona Charen, who almost certainly has never heard of me (and likely never will), agrees with me. She argues as much in her column:
Follow the link for her reasoning, which, I must say, is quite sound, given that she agrees with me.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society’ 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” chooses to display his politeness on the pavement.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
“The Happiest Place on Earth” 0
I don’t know where that is, but, as Gene Collier reports, it ain’t here. A snippet:
So that’s it; unhappily enough, we’re 23rd, 10 slots beneath Kuwait and nowhere near the perfectly chilled utopia that is Finland, which finished No. 1 for the seventh consecutive year. Generally, it again appears from the Top 10 that if you want to be happy, your chances spike dramatically in a smallish country that’s very cold.
Industrial Devolution 0
And, in related news:
(snip)
“Over half of littered single-use plastic bottles collected during Truckee Day, the annual Town-wide litter cleanup, were water bottles,” the town of Truckee wrote in a March 17 news release. “These plastics do not decompose but break apart into harmful microplastics that enter local waterways and are potentially consumed by wildlife or the public.”
A Pillow of the Community 0
Mike Lindell discovers that actions (sometimes) have consequences.
Afterthought:
Methinks F. T. Rea’s musing on “the believers,” though he does not mention Lindell, may cast some light on how Lindell got to this point. A snippet:
Stray Question 0
I wonder whether, if I owed a court money, I could talk the judge into cutting it by two-thirds just because I said it was too high?
