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How Republicans Screw Workers
How Republicans Screw Workers
Efforts by Obama and Biden to enforce labor laws have been systematically undermined by right-wing courts and legislators. This should be a prime election theme.
·prospect.org·
How Republicans Screw Workers
Cleveland Plain Dealer Editor Shows How To Cover Trump: Tell The Truth
Cleveland Plain Dealer Editor Shows How To Cover Trump: Tell The Truth
For the last eight years or so, one thing has become quite clear: the media has been effectively unable to deal with Donald Trump and Trumpism. He is unique to our political system. He has no shame…
·techdirt.com·
Cleveland Plain Dealer Editor Shows How To Cover Trump: Tell The Truth
Forgotten Books And How To Save Them
Forgotten Books And How To Save Them
On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains: I have…
·techdirt.com·
Forgotten Books And How To Save Them
‘Climate Lockdown’
‘Climate Lockdown’
Overviews of issues, trends, narratives, platforms and actors.
·isdglobal.org·
‘Climate Lockdown’
On the necessity of a sin
On the necessity of a sin
Why treating AI like a person is the future
·oneusefulthing.org·
On the necessity of a sin
Suicide Mission
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
·prospect.org·
Suicide Mission
Why selling personal data is a bad idea
Why selling personal data is a bad idea
This post is for the benefit of anyone wondering about, researching, or going into business on the proposition that selling one’s own personal data is a good idea. Here are some of my learnin…
·doc.searls.com·
Why selling personal data is a bad idea
The Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu
The Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu
Today on TAP: Yass’s payoffs to Trump are part of his efforts to destroy democracy in the U.S. and Israel, while helping China.
·prospect.org·
The Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu
Russian intelligence controls warlord's disinformation empire with AI
Russian intelligence controls warlord's disinformation empire with AI
The infamous Russian disinformation troll factory founded by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was thought to shut down after his death, but Scripps News has learned his sprawling disinformation empire never stopped and Artificial Intelligence is amplifying its reach.
·scrippsnews.com·
Russian intelligence controls warlord's disinformation empire with AI
Let’s talk about that 3% number
Let’s talk about that 3% number
Well, it seems like transaction info is something people are more interested in than I expected, so I wanted to tackle one more thing. So often in App Store discussions, we talk about Apple’s 30% cut of each in-app purchase on iPhones and how that’s so much higher
·birchtree.me·
Let’s talk about that 3% number