Mammon category archive
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.
Medicare Disadvantage 0
Thom talks with Wendell Potter about how Medicare Advantage has turned out to be just another part of the privatization scam. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)