Mammon category archive
Emoluments 0
It appears that Donald Trump may be presidenting for profit.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the Trump maladministration seems to thinks that global warming is really cool.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent therapist? At the Psychology Today website, Marty Klein explains why, as a machine, it isn’t and can’t be. Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis added):
On the other hand, a more complex position is “AI is a consumer product designed by private businesses to make money. It isn’t objective (not to mention that it makes mistakes). It doesn’t know or care about me personally, although it “talks” to me as if it does (that’s the product).” As AI gets increasingly sophisticated, it becomes harder to remember this, which means it becomes increasingly influential in the user’s life.
Shills 0
Last night, an app on my phone prompted me to install Polymarket.
As I have no desire to find myself somewhere down the road attending GA meetings, I declined.
I find it saddening that this app, which I’ve used for years, is now shilling for sharks.
And this growth in online gambling does not cast a positive light on the perspicacity of the populace.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Jim Hightower hears some rhymes with history in this new gilded age. Here’s a couple:
Follow the link for the context of his remarks.
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*Mark Twain.
This New Gilded Age 0
The bosses get the doughnuts, the employees get the holes.
Contaminated Clorox 0
That’s a phrase one would not expect to hear, but, in line with what Farron was talking about, it appears that contaminated Clorox is indeed a thing.
Grocery 0
Farron marvels at the number of food recalls that we’re facing today and wonders whether Repuvlicans’ thirst for deregulation may be the reason.
Methinks he has a point.
Impartiality
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At Above the Law, Joe Patrice follows the trail of oil droplets.
The Entitlement Society 0
His biggest regret is that he got caught.
Kleptocracy 0
Grung_e_Gene raises an interesting point: The Trump maladministration is interested, not in the public good, but only in the public’s goods
The Crypto Con 0
Thom follows Donald Trump’s funny phoney money.
This New Gilded Age 0
Methinks one sign that we are in a New Gilded Age is government’s privatizing the common weal so as to line the pockets of the already wealthy.
Devolution 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro in my local rag:
This New Gilded Age 0
In case you wonder why the first Gilded Age gave rise to the union movement, this example from our New Gilded Age might help dispel said wonder.
All the News You Can Lose 0
When persons have to turn to “social” media for news because their “local” news outlets aren’t outing their local news, we are well and truly–well, let’s just say that’s not a positive indicator in dis coarse discourse.
The Greenland New Deal 0
Farron argues that it’s all about theft of resources. Methinks he has a point.
We are (mis)governed by a kleptocrat.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Las Vega Sun, letter-writer Mark Bird follows the money and reaches a depressing conclusion.