Maybe that you’ve never seen this before should be a big red flag that it’s a bubble, and not real, and not good.
Tag: industry
Anticircumvention laws are authoritarian monopolistic industry killers.
kill the killswitches
The financialization and bankification of all of society.
I’d like to see some policy and regulation to stop this shit because it stinks of scams and leads to harm.
Environmental advocacy is assiduously ignored by the media.
And by media, I mean left “independent” and alternative media too. Anyone who’s looking for clicks and to make money online seems to ignore it. It’s not really a mystery why, it’s by design.
Let’s stop listening to so-called Dem consultants who act like they’re double agents for industry.
Let’s stop giving air to these consultancies.
Why does industry fund so much stuff that’s easily seen as bogus or suspect?
Brandt AM. Inventing conflicts of interest: a history of tobacco industry tactics. Am J Public Health. 2012 Jan;102(1):63-71. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300292. Epub 2011 Nov 28. PMID: 22095331; PMCID: PMC3490543. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific […]
Partnering with AI tech tycoons who wanna be kings is not democracy.
Anyone trying to push for “managing” AI or “sustainably” supporting AI is not operating in reality.
When something is sold with a “trick” to get around safety regulations, that’s a big red flag.
There are tons of supplements sold with this trick, where they have influencers and mommy bloggers, and accounts that seem like randos on social media, making the claims, even when the label on the bottles say something else, something serious, because there’s a rule to try to protect people.
AI data centers and the real economy.
This big tech AI data center boondoggle push is leading to soaring electricity prices. Nobody wants that.
Of course messaging from leadership is a central factor in public health.
Anyone telling anyone that people refused covid mitigations because of personal choice based on rational rejection of vaccines, testing, masks, and remote work, is either lying or themselves a fool.
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
‘Tax Return To Office’ is a political policy platform that can maybe go places.
HiFi – Welcome to WWIII, the stupidest internet war. Mar 11 at 1:56 PM Policy thought: If I were a politician, I’d tax corporations who required work from office at a higher rate, as their plantation mentality requires their employees to consume valuable resources such as petrol and time.
Herd immunity misinformation on the left.
Youtube served up a liberal channel with healthcare professionals that were ostensibly criticizing RFKJr – though I feel like they were trying to bothsides the guy, buying into some of his claims they think they agree with. But the issue is that covid vaccine uptake was never great even for the original series, it never […]
Elon Musk is a walking conflict of interest and nobody voted for corporate dictatorship.
Elon Musk is in conflict across the political spectrum, not just across the government and across America.
By “fix our forests” they mean they want to clear cut down our forests without our input.
We like our trees on the public lands, the parks, the forests, the game lands, and the national forests. They belong to us.
Tax prep company lobbying to get Donald Trump to kill IRS Direct File.
Nearly 30 House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the IRS free tax filing service, Direct File, on day one of his new administration.
What to expect by what we already had in a Trump admin CDC.
I think a lot of people have memory holed just how bad the Trump administration was even before the pandemic.
Lattimer massacre.
The Lattimer massacre was the killing of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite miners by a Luzerne County sheriff’s posse at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897.
