Mammon category archive
Influencer Idiocy 0
Emily Balcetis, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, has some issues with how “influencers” promote products. She believes that
Stricter rules are needed to limit harmful social media marketing.
Follow the link for her reasoning and, remember, “social” media isn’t.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey argues that
Follow the link and get the points.
This New Gilded Age 0
Seth discusses Bernie Sanders’s claims that we are will down a path to oligarchy.
Spoiler: Seth thinks Bernie may have a point.
Signs of the Fall 0
I seldom look at the sport section of my local rag (except to read Bob Molinaro’s column, because he is a fine writer with a sharp pen and a wicked sense of humor). Even when I paid much more attention to sports than I do now, I was more interesting in watching competitions than in reading about them.
Nevertheless, as I leafed through the sports section on the way to the agony columns in yesterday’s paper (yes, paper, not electrons), something caught my eye.
My local rag now carries a syndicated column methinks no doubt subtly designed to suck people into covering sports betting.
We are a broken society.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Todd R. Nelson argues that Walt Whitman’s words from a century and a half ago ring true today in this new Gilded Age.
Here’s a bit of his article:
It gets worse. “The depravity of the business classes of our country is not less than has been supposed, but infinitely greater,” Whitman writes. “The official services of America, national, state, and municipal, in all their branches and departments, except the judiciary, are saturated in corruption, bribery, falsehood, maladministration.”
Aside:
In these days of our Supreme Supremacist Court, he might rethink that bit about the judiciary.
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).
