Google: How to get fired in one easy step
Google workers arrested after nine-hour protest in cloud CEO’s office (cnbc.com) A group of workers decided to camp out in an executive’s office and refused to leave. They were arrested…
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Media failure: The Happiest Country Nonsense
This week I’ve seen many items about “This is why Finland is the world’s happiest country” – and 100% of these stories are wrong. Not one reporter – not one…
Google’s Gemini AI is broken
Gemini AI's architecture is fundamentally broken - is it even fixable? I have doubts.
AI continues to skew results Part 2
Google's Gemini AI provides very skewed answers to simple prompts,
Business: Remote work a perk for the elite
It was always a perk for the elite.
Public health: If you are not wearing an N95 mask …
If you are not wearing an N95 mask 24x7, you are racists and pro-genocide. Apparently this is science.
Public health: Should wear masks at all times, including while eating
She says that 17 of 18 people at a dinner got Covid - and that's why everyone must wear masks 24 x 7. Even while eating?
Climate: By assigning all the world’s emissions to the 1%, the 1% emit all the world’s carbon emissions!
Oxfam count emission made by companies in which the top 1% have investments, and says all the emissions from those companies are emitted by the top 1%. Brilliant.
Climate: “Climate change will kill 1 billion people”; we should execute climate change deniers
A professor argued for the execution of anyone labeled a climate denier. He believes in academic freedom for himself, but not for others - those that disagree should be executed.…
Follow up: Students isolating with Covid should be last to leave buildings on fire
In Oct 2020, the University of York told students self isolating in case they had Covid that they should delay exiting a building on fire...