Mammon category archive
Winners and Losers Sharks and Marks
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I recommend Harry Shearer’s interview with Danny Funt, author of Everybody Loses, on how gambling has gone from being, if not illegal, at least limited and tightly regulated, to being seemingly everywhere. The discussion starts about half an hour into this week’s episode of Le Show.
The Privatization Scam Goes Postal 0
Farron discusses how the Republican Party is working, and has been working for a long time, to destroy the U. S. Postal Service, which was established according to the Constitution of the United States.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing which no longer embraces the concept of the common good.
Emoluments 0
Robert Reich follows the money from the box office to the coffers.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A con artist’s co-conspirator? Philadelphia’s WPVI reports that a “new wave of smart scams, powered by artificial intelligence, is now targeting consumers every single day.”
All the News that Fits 0
Thom talks with Mary Trump on what happened to objective, fact-based broadcast news.
Afterthought:
I think Thom makes a great analogy about hoarding disorder.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom argues that the concentration of news outlets in very few hands ensures that we get only the news that fits.
This New Gilded Age 0
Theft of labor. It’s a thing.
How Stuff Works: The Crypto Con 0
Non Sequitur pictures the process.
Afterthought:
If Carlo Ponzi were alive today, he’d be selling crypto and NFTs.
Facebook Frolics 0
The EFF looks at the Zuckerborg’s latest assimilation strategy–enabling facial recogntion in its “smart” glasses–and explains why its a very bad no good stinking idea. Here’s a bit from their article:
Follow the link for the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
Thom looks at how Trump is replacing the “Voice of America” with the “Voices of Oligarchy.” (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
This New Gilded Age . . . 0
. . . brings with it a new generation of robber barons.
At Der Spiegel, Simon Book shines a light on one of them, the Lord High Admiral of the Zuckerborg.
Just go read it.
Look! Over There! This New Gilded Age Dept. 0
Steve M. dissects the Republican Party’s misdirection play. A snippet:
The Medicine Show 0
Thom debunks Trump’s bunk about bringing drug prices down.