Surveillance pricing ought to be outlawed, and there should never be a time you are compelled to be surveilled just to buy something.
Tag: marketing
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 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”.
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
The Wellness Company is right-wing, and pushes covid quackery including anti-vax crap.
Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.
Ghost health insurance plans.
Spread the word about sketchy health insurance! You never know who in your life might be buying health insurance and walk ass-backwards into one of these hustles. Health insurance plans tied to fake jobs. Self-employed, small business owners and people in the gig economy are getting ripped off when they think they’re buying health insurance […]
If you want to encourage vaccination you don’t show photos that evoke unsettled feelings. This is basic marketing.
I’ve been complaining about this since the start of the pandemic…
Pulling back the curtain on fake testimonials.
“More Google Review Extortion” because this channel has multiple examples of evidence of extortion operations using google reviews.
Imagine being shamed for wearing a seatbelt or getting up and leaving a building when a fire alarm rings.
It’s bizarre that there are still people who have been convinced into having hangups about wearing a respirator mask.
Pennsylvania American Water needs to just stop with the pathetic PR.
PA American Water keeps reminding me with their many commercials, now the ads on Youtube seem to be claiming that they Scranton from the EPA or some…
We are always being targeted with oppositional propaganda to bring us over to the dark side.
Sometimes it’s people who are mistaken for liberals who spread right-wing propaganda to the people who mistake them for liberal.
Where are all the doctors who could be informing their patients? And where are the hospital lobbyists?
We know there’s tons of lobbyists working on the behalf of big healthcare corporations. Yet they seem to have let this healthcare industry destroying big boondoggle bill succeed. What happened?
Data center PR never mentions the burning gas or burning tires part.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value.
Chatbots are addictive like social media, gambling, and video games, but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I noticed the addictive aspect of the chatbot 2 years ago, and warned that I suspected it wasn’t a coincidence it seemed to have aspects that reminded me of the game Diablo.
When I see a product has “Artificial Intelligence” I immediately assume it’s a piece of crap.
And the marketing buzzwords of “AI” signals to me that it comes with a huge price tag of horrendous collateral damage. When are companies going to realize that announcing they’re using AI isn’t the selling point they think it is? That saying that a product has AI in it immediately signals that their product is […]
I was on The Letterhack Presents with Matt Strackbein to talk about why FAFO doesn’t matter because there’s no Invisible Hand of the Market. .
DOES FAFO EVEN MATTER? – #MAGA REFUSES TO #LEARN W/ CHLOE HUMBERT! – The Letterhack Among other aspects, we talked about how people didn’t learn from the pandemic, and once you F around and find out unvaccinated, it’s too late for the kids who died to “learn” anything from such an experience.
Alligators knock doors in Florida.
This is going to put a damper on getting better politicians elected in Florida. Too close for comfort: Gators seen scratching and knocking on front doors of 3 Florida homes WSVN-TV May 12, 2025 Maybe I’m cynical but I can’t help suspect this is a PR planted story as covert marketing for doorbell cameras because […]
AI is shoddy, and it’s used as a shadowbanning assist.
I decided to read this book “Empire of AI” after an interview with the author Karen Hao on the Better Offline podcast, which covers the technical and financial no there there of AI. And in this interview by Tim Miller at the Bulwark with Karen Hao, they talk about environmental impacts, but I think this […]
Maybe a lot of stuff called AI can be called just another quack pseudoscience snake oil.
Pseudoscience pushing unproven medical remedies and health treatments with no basis also usually has some “maybe in the future” assertion.
Treasury Secretary says federal job cuts necessary because the US government was crowding out the private market.
“And this is an opportunity to right-size the federal government and unleash the private sector again, because it’s been hemmed down by excessive regulation, and it’s been crowded out by the government.” — Scott Bessent
These “dire wolf” animals sound like the wolf version of rose bushes that get fancy stuff grafted on.
“They are using the attention economy to drive up the value of their company.” – Johannes Vogel, Director General of the Berlin’s Museum of Natural History
5G mmWave was big hype by big telecom -so many bought inferior and or more expensive phones for nothin.
The big telecoms and big tech companies need to be broken up.