Mammon category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Methinks that, when you read this article from the Des Moines Register about the struggles faced by Iowa residents since the Trump maladministration slasched SNAP benefits, you will understand why I hold that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
Metastasized 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay reports on how a contractor constructing a data center for the Zuckerborg nearly poisoned a community with lethal waste water.
Emoluments 0
David follows the money.
The Crypto Con 0
But is it truly a con? At Above the Law, tax attorney Steven Chung applies the eye of a lawyer to Donald Trump’s crypto capers.
The Crypto Con Artists 0
Farron marvels at the art of the double-deal.
Emoluments, Reprise 0
Josh Gay follows the money.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of critical thought? Zeynep Tufekci argues that (emphasis added)
Large language models are not reasoning machines. They’re plausibility engines. They can only assess which answers are probable, based on the data on which the models have been trained.
Follow the link for his arguements.
And, in more news of AI . . . .
This New Gilded Age 0
Are we possibly seeing the return of the sweatshop?
Carnage Nation 0
Rebecca Watson discusses a recent report showing that the increasing size of cars and trucks, particularly the height of their front ends, in contributing to increase accidents and pedestrian deaths.
Or you can read the transcript.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses Louisiana’s decision to bring back slave labor involuntary servitude.
Facebook Frolics 0
Politico reports:
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Privatization Scam 0
PoliticalProf looks follows the money.