It’s pretty corrupt looking that the crypto industry people are openly talking about buying elections, and personally getting rid of politicians they don’t like.
Tag: influence
Crypto connected real estate man revolving-doored in & out of the Shapiro admin and into data center consultancy.
Dodgy looking conflict of interest crypto & AI stuff in Pennsylvania.
Curtailing language studies makes Americans less safe and less informed, and there is no substitute to humans learning languages from humans.
Professor Timothy Longman, with a purview in political science and international relations, posted on social media speaking about the importance of language studies, from personal experience, and about the widespread demand that the Department of Education reinstate the Title VI program.
On the provenance and funding of extremely cited articles.
I guess maybe John Ioannidis would know.
Conglomerates want to control our resources by owning our utilities.
Blackrock, Blackstone, Blackwater… Why is black a popular prefix with these outfits? (- scratching chin emoji-)
Indianapolis said no to the proposed water guzzling Google data center.
“Indianapolis killed this Google data center. It would have used 1 million gallons of water per day.”
AI boosters use the vulnerable people as scapegoats tactic.
Sometimes it’s meant as a way to put people at ease who believe themselves to not be at risk, and sometimes it’s a way to say it just happens to “those other people” and that’s ok actually.
The anti-vax team at the central government.
This is what I found over a year ago on the doctor Jordan Vaughn who’s now on the CDC ACIP working group as a “subject matter expert”
Apple iphone Siri to start pushing anti-vax pseudoscience politics?
“intolerance” and “systemic racism”
The supplement boom is based in shoddy science, or no real science at all.
Because so often the online marketing of supplements and various wellness products involves linking to a study that doesn’t back up their claims at all, but nobody ever clicks through so they get away with fraudulent appeal to authority.
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.
The marketing of health products based on prelim studies.
I’ve seen a pattern over the years where products are already on the market, and sometimes even being marketed online especially on social media, and the only evidence anyone points to is some preliminary study that’s inconclusive but “promising”.
More pressure on elected representatives on vaccines must come from constituents.
RFKJr promised that anyone who wants to would be able to get covid boosters if they want to, but that’s not what’s happening.
Are people really so naive that they don’t know about astroturfing? Seriously?
I see people who have no idea why someone rich right-winger might fund something leftist. Did nobody ever hear of a strawman? People have seriously never heard the concept of being co-opted?
People have been misled about the opposition to public health, and the dangers of MAGA MAHA.
It was always the right-wing pushing everyone to the right. And politicians need to be pushed back, and the only people who can do that is constituents. Quite a catch 22.
RE: political consultancy class “research” stuff.
I’m thinking of the Blue Rose Research bullshit, which reminded me of the Impact Research bullshit and Matt Cartwright shitting the bed.
2 things can be true at once, kids and phones discourse edition.
Two things or multiple things can be true at once. Social media is toxic, and kids should have access to phone service.
If something is “drug free” it can’t treat anything, because if it can treat something, it’s a drug. That’s how words work.
That’s the definition of a drug, it treats disease, in the dictionary and legally. But companies use this line of something being “drug free” in order to try to openly skirt the law.
The pressure on elected officials about vaccines must come from constituents in their districts.
I believe the only answer here is that the congresspeople and senators all get unimaginable pressure.