The Crypto Con 0
Rebecca Watson digs into NFTs. She is less than impressed with what she finds.
Of, if you’d rather read, there’s a transcript.
The New Gilded Age 0
It gets more gilded every day. From a report at SFGate:
As I have mentioned, I worked for the railroad (I loved the railroad!), which is a heavily unionized environment (though these days, the unions don’t seem to be as strong as they should used to be). By happenstance, I knew a high-ranking union official, the chief lobbyist for one of the major railroad unions, a kind and honest and thoughtful man, indeed, one of the finest men I have ever known.
He was fond of pointing out that “unions are the creation of management.”
To put it another way, if management treats employees fairly, employees have no incentive to form unions.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times calls him out some whataboutism.
Bait and Switch 0
The Editorial Board of the Charlotte Observer details the con.
Twits Own Twitter 0
Sam suggests that what Elon Musk is doing with Twitter is a case study of why billionaires can be corrosive to our society. Watch the video for his reasoning.
DIs Coarse Discourse 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Guy Harrison interviews Timothy Redmond about what’s gone wrong with our politics and what we need to do to fix them.
Just go read it.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin:
Moral indignation was an emotion that Fen distrusted; he made an effort and suppressed it.
Crispin, Edmund, Love Lies Bleeding (New York: Penguin, 1982), p. 145
The Crypto Con 0
Emma and the crew talk with a caller about the con. (The relevant portion of the clip starts about !:15 mark after a short discussion about China and Taiwan. Short commercial at the end.)
Excerpt:
The companies have huge market caps based on nothing.
Crime and Punishment 0
What Atrios said.