Business: Brands owned by Disney
Disney is not just Disney, but also Marvel, ESPN, National Geographic, ABC, Lifetime, FX, Star, Pinewood Studies, Lucasfilms, Pixar - everything.
Education: The mysteries of loan forgiveness
Random X post celebrates his $8k education loan paid off by taxpayers. He attended expensive Uni, owns a $560k home and is Comm Director for a Congressional Representative.
Censorship: “…educated elites … demanding the censorship, persecution … of political enemies”
Groups insisting a censored world would be a better world (if they get to do the censoring).
Norway’s Minister for Research and Higher Education plagiarized her thesis
She plagiarized extensively in her own thesis but punished students for plagiarism.
Aviation: Trevor Jacob sentenced to 6 months in Federal prison
He deliberately crashed a plane in an elaborate stunt to generate views to sell advertising. His story fell apart when Youtube viewers observed numerous irregularities in his saga. Eventually he…
Environment: Corruption is good for the environment, says study
Corruption can increase environmental efficiency and improve economy in developing countries, study argues (phys.org). It's Science.
Public health: ACA premiums 2024, $2,057/month, $19,000 deductible
2024 ACA premiums for a bare bones Brone policy for 2 adults: $2057/month or about $25k/year, $19,000 annual deductible.
Drones: Man faces 10 year prison sentence for shooting down quadcopter
Guy in Florida shoots down a quadcopter, is arrested and charged with Federal offense for downing an aircraft. He was already a convicted felon.
Crime: Astounding allegations of fraud surrounding FTX crypto exchange
The FTX crypto exchange is alleged to have involved billions of dollars in fraudulent spending of customer's investment money on self dealing by executives.
Public health: No or little evidence that NPIs worked to stop Covid-19 transmission
UK study finds that lock downs and non-pharmaceutical interventions to stop Covid - did not work. Duh.
Crypto: Essentially all NFTs are now worthless
NFTs were always a ridiculous idea. Now almost all NFTs are worthless.
AI: More examples of Bing Chat plagiarizing content
Caught Bing Chat bot doing it again - stealing content off a web site. When confronted with plagiarism, Chat shut me off and said we had to move to a…
Public Health: “Experts” think we should be wearing masks again
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Experts" say we should all wear masks again.
Education: College Board shares SAT scores and GPA with Facebook and TikTok
The College Board (SAT tests) was caught sending student SAT scores and GPA and web site search terms to Facebook and Tiktok.
Happy nation: Five dead and dozens injured as violence erupts across the nation | Daily Mail Online
I just came back from northern Europe. Every day the news had reports of shootings in the U.S. Such a happy nation we have here. Five people were killed and…