Mammon category archive
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom posits that today’s robber barons have learned from yesterday’s. That’s why they are buying up media outlets, so as to manipulate dis coarse discourse.
This Trumpled Kleptocracy 0
Sam and the crew discuss how the robber barons of this new gilded age are poisoning dis coarse discourse.
This New Gilded Age 0
Speaking of money in politics . . . .
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Whose Land is this anyway? Does to belong to the mega-corporations, and we’re just here to be their workforce? Does it belong to Trump and the willing victims of his lies? Let’s take a look at where we stand on that issue.
“We’re Trying To Have a Society Here” 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Nadal uses examples from her own life to remind us that, despite what Republicans would have you think, there is, indeed, such a thing as “the common good.”
This New Gilded Age, It’s Bubblelicious 0
Sam and Emma talk with Rob Larson, professor of economics at Tacoma Community College, about how today’s generation of Robber Barons are perverting the polity.
The Privatization Scam 0
And it is a scam.
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts runs the numbers and shows that you can voucher on that.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Responsible for its actions? You must be joking.
Here’s a bit from the report by El Reg (emphasis added):
LinkedIn thus takes after its parent, which recently revised its Service Agreement to make clear that its Assistive AI should not be relied upon.
LinkedIn, however, has taken its denial of responsibility a step further: it will hold users responsible for sharing any policy-violating misinformation created by its own AI tools.
H/T Le Show for its coverage of AI (and many other items that don’t get the attention that they deserve).
The Entitlement Society 0
They keep doing it because they keep getting away with it.
The Crypto Con 0
It seems like everyone wants in on the scam.
The Crypto Con 0
The FBI followed the money. From El Reg (emphasis in the original):
The FBI investigation tracked payments to at least three deputies and their associates from Zort funds, and also probed how Iza was making his money. This led to the criminal charges.
Follow the link to see where it led them.
Medicare Disadvantage 0
Thom reports that hospitals are increasingly frustrated at dealing with Medicare “Advantage” plans, because those “insurers” just don’t want to, well, pay for medical care, because actually paying for stuff cuts into their profits.
As far as I am concerned, Medicare “Advantage” was a con and scam from the git-go. It was created solely to allow private companies to get their paws on public money. When I qualified for Medicare (yeah, I’m old), I made sure to avoid Medicare “Advantage” for the same reason I don’t answer phone calls when the caller ID reads “Scam Likely.”
But that’s just me.
The Crypto Con 0
Paul Krugman is less than sanguine about crypto con artists’ growing interest in and influence on politics. A snippet:
(snip)
So crypto’s political spending clearly seems motivated by financial self-interest, while the right-wing lurch of other tech bros may — as a Facebook founder, Chris Hughes, put it the other day in The New York Times — reflect a sense of common cause with Trump, who like them believes that he shouldn’t have to play by the rules.
Follow the link for the full article.
