“They want to build their own private city in Solano County, and they’re crushing farmers with lawsuits to do it.”
Tag: it's just business
Tycoons are again making company towns, and they’re even more dystopian.
There’s no way I want to live as some dystopian feudal subject…
Donald Trump has repeatedly wrong economic advisor Kevin Hassett working on bird flu.
Kevin Hassett is an economist with a history of being way wrong. At a press briefing, the Trump administration spokesperson Karoline Leavitt explicitly blamed the egg prices on the Biden administration’s Department of Agriculture quote “directing the mass killing of 100 million chickens.” Of course this was because of avian influenza and the threat posed […]
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
The media landscape needs an overhaul.
Did you know that the U.S. Postal service acted as a subsidized news delivery service in the 1800s America?
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
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.
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Rejecting Medicare DIS-Advantage.
Privatizing Medicare is where the fraud, waste, and abuse comes in.
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.
Trickle down economics – the trick tycoons just can’t pull off.
The “bringing the jobs” stuff is insulting people into early graves, but the power consumption inequality may be what finishes off a lot of humans.
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.
Radios are a good thing to have. Devices that require cell service are cell phones and are not the same as radios.
I keep seeing commercials for “rapid radios” where they are trying to pitch these “walkie talkie” type devices as radios that can reach across the country. This is misleading nonsense.
Josh Shapiro’s ongoing gift missteps.
This governor hasn’t been reading the room since the get-go
“If you’re not the one paying, you’re not the customer.”
It’s really problematic that so often good information is behind paywalls, and disinformation is of course made free, for maximum spread for deceit.
The same problems continue no matter the platform.
Is it a fresh start for you and me, or for engagement clout chasing influencers making money off our attention?
Going viral doesn’t happen by chance.
The reality of powerful paid organizing behind media promotion.