Climate oops: Bad messaging
Many things said in the media about climate are not true. They focus on improbable, scary scenarios – and link every puff of wind to climate change and predict doom,…
Demographics: 3/4 of young adults say having kids is not very important
Gloomy: Only 23% of adults under age 30 said that having children was very important and of the total 1,019 respondents, 78% say they aren’t confident that their children’s lives…
Follow up: Czech is why we must all wear cloth face masks
March 2020 In the spring of 2020, Covid case counts were low in the Czech Republic. A native writer from Czech, now living a dual life in both the US…
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
What’s old is new again: “Working Weekends is New Normal For Tech Layoff Survivors”
Back in the 1980s, tech companies promoted something called “flex time” – meaning you could, allegedly, set your own start and end time each day. Come in late but then…
Tech: Media confusion on H-1B visas among widespread tech job layoffs
Between Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), about 100,000 workers were just laid off. I’m so old, l remember last week (Jan 12) when they needed to hire more temporary imported…
US government attempted to control online speech about Covid topics
Twitter censored online speech about Covid topics. 100% of what most of us see is selectively reported, edited, hidden, then curated, promoted, de-emphasized, censored as part of someone's propaganda campaign.
Finance: Who are the people behind the FTX collapse?
Bankman-Fried was worshiped by much of the media when skepticism might have been better: Is Sam Bankman-Fried, the disheveled, media-hungry founder, a sociopath, as some are beginning to say? Or…
Finance: How did the grand cryptocurrency con happen? “Hero worship”
And while SBF’s FTX takes the cake for crypto’s biggest con in dollar terms, it’s noteworthy how many other conmen crypto has produced: Mt. Gox’s Mark Karpeles, QuadrigaX’s Gerald Cotton,…
Twitter: Media has meltdown over proposal to charge a fee for “Blue check”
Much of the media is having a meltdown over Twitter’s proposal to charge users for a Blue Check verified account. Here’s a quote from a Bloomberg news column: The plan…