After reading the following article one wonders just how passive US news organisations are generally in spreading false news in addition to Tweets by Trump. Publishers know that some copy sells better than others. Additional considerations play into it, things that are much more sinister and originating from higher levels ofContinue Reading
McKenzie Wark, Chair of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College and Liberal Studies at the New School of Social Research in NY gives a brief analysis of the ideas of Marshall McLuhan.Continue Reading
It is as troubling for Kissinger and the Republicans as it is for the Democrats to ponder the implications of the pervasive influence of artifical intelligence on their democracy going forward. On another front Asia has the lead with AI and health care. Continue Reading
Richard Nixon represented the narrow interests of middle America’s shopkeepers (the Silent Majority) by being born into their camp and then climbing up the political ladder to the pinacle using grit, smarts and moral rectitude all the while working dutifully within the established two party system. Trump, with no politicalContinue Reading
Podcasts being the new talk radio, I’ve been following Joe Rogan’s. Seems OG to me: Continue Reading
this is a good article describing the tense scenes of corporate culture at FB. It outlines the desperate search for whistle blowers and muscular efforts to keep a lid firmly clamped down on inner communication and policy. There is a lot at stake here obviously for the employer but theContinue Reading