Tesla protesters want Tesla employees to lose their jobs?
Nothing makes any sense. The media is failing to inform readers as to why DOGE is happening.
Drones: The Great Drone Hoax of 2024
How people notice something ordinary that has been going on for ages and turn it into mass delusion. We have been here before.
Think: Does college increase inequality?
Many students who take on large education loans end up with a lower (or negative) net worth for years or decades, making them less well off.
Practice Factfulness
Practice factfulness and learn to think for yourself. If you do not practice factfulness, then you are being manipulated to believe things that are not true. And you have no…
Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Business: Disney lays off entire virtual reality “metaverse” team
Disney has cut its metaverse division as part of the layoffs that will begin this week. Source: Disney cuts metaverse division under Iger’s restructuring It kinda, sorta looks like FB’s…
Sounds just like inept Covid messaging: “Elites Are Using Climate Hysteria to Immiserate the Working Class”
No kidding: Increasingly, even climate scientists are noting that the constant, and often poorly supported doomsaying threaten the credibility of the movement itself. And there have been quiet reversals; the…
Next up: A push to ban air travel
Air travelers create a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that mostly harm other, less well-to-do people. Source: Opinion: Big Tech flies too much. It’s time for these companies to practice…
What the pandemic has taught us about science | Climate Etc.
How should the public begin to make sense of the flurry of sometimes contradictory scientific views generated by the Covid-19 crisis? The only way to be absolutely sure that one…
FedEx seeks to automate much of the package delivery process
FedEx is looking at everything – replacing drivers with autonomous delivery trucks and small robots, integration with Google Echo and Amazon Alexa to request package delivery via voice command, using…