Mammon category archive
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper follows the money.
A Loopy Idea 0
SFgate’s Katie Dowd had to go to Las Vegas, so she decided to check out Elon Musk’s Loop underground transportation notnetwork.
She was–er–less than favorabley impressed.
Phoning It In 0
Apparently, reviewers are finding that the much-vaunted Trump phones don’t actually live up to their billing . . .
The Sure Thing 0
You can bet on more reports like this. It’s a sure thing.
We are a broken society.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Sucking you down the rabbit hole? Per El Reg, to Google’s Hotel California of AI.
Afterthought:
For you whippersnappers who don’t ken the reference to “Hotel California,” well, just Yahoo! it.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A shill for merch? El Reg explores how Google plans to infuse its AI with ads.
(Another reason to loathe AI.)
Aside:
My new Anddroid cell phone keeps nagging me to use Google’s Gemini AI.
I keep telling Gemini to go away. (I don’t need nor want what amounts to a talking search engine that chooses search results for me, which is basically all that AI is.)
A couple of times, before I’ve gotten a chance to tell it to go away, it’s eavesdropped on my conversation and started talking on its own, saying stuff that is irrelevant to whatever the conversation was about.
As far as I’m concerned, AI does not stand for “artificial intelligence.” It stands for “annoying interrupter.”
Emoluments 0
Mary Trump follows the money.
“Fog of Lies” 0
Thom discusses how billionaires are spending to skew dis coarse discourse.
The Art of the Con 0
At the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper follows the money.
Follymarket 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier expresses some conerns about Polymarket.
The Crypto Con 0
From the Youtube page:
A story broke this weekend which exposed that the founder and leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, had been gifted £5 million by a Thai cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before announcing his intention to stand for election. It is another example of how while claiming to be a man of the people – Farage is actually raking it in, and beholden to the super-rich and exploiting their resource and control of media to make a bid for power and policies that will benefit them. On Sunday he withdrew from a BBC interview at the last minute, hoping that avoiding questions (before Thursday’s local elections across the UK) will allow him to benefit from voters’ anger at the failings of the main two parties.
The Art of the Steal 0
Mediaite takes a look at the White House crypto con.
The Crypto Con 0
Alabama State Representative Ben Harrison warns that they are coming for the banks next.
If Charles Ponzi were still with us, he would bow in awe and admiration to the Crypto Bros for taking his legacy to unimagined heights.