Mammon category archive

Musky twits.

Signe comments on Amazon’s attempt to foist cashless stores on Philadelphia.

Aside:

I see persons using cards and, these days, phones, for all sorts of tiny purchases, as tiny as a cup of coffee or a pack of gum.

I always wonder how the heck they keep track of them.

Farron and Scott Hardy discuss the “in app” phish.

Aside:

When we went out for breakfast Sunday morning, we saw a kid, maybe about six or eight, wearing a “Fortnite” tee-shirt. Wonder if he’s been suckered?

Sam marvels at the concern certain members of the media have for protecting the delicate fee-fees of the very rich.

Here’s an example of the price exacted by Big Pharma.

Transcript here.

Farron and Scott Hardy discuss an odd case out of Illinois regarding Six Flags Amusement Park’s practice of obtaining and storing customers’ finger prints without obtaining required permission.

Full Disclosure:

I haven’t been to an amusement park in two decades. I had no idea that they were now printing customers.

Farron has the latest from the Environmental Predation Agency.

Scott Bauer delves into how Scott Walker and Wisconsin got Foxconned. A snippet:

Marc Levine, senior fellow and founding director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Center of Economic Development, called it “one enormous bait-and-switch.”

Much more at the link.

(Broken link fixed.)

Via Job’s Anger.

Thom wonders whether media corporations’ quest for profit is affecting their news coverage, in particular in choosing which stories to cover and which to ignore (or, at least, to de-emphasize).

Scrooge would be proud.

US-based Frontier Airlines has started asking passengers to tip their cabin crew after they bring refreshments around the plane.