FIFA, the infinitely corrupt organization that rules international football (known as soccer in the US), has completely ripped off the North American cities that -- owing to the stupidity of their political leaders -- signed up to host the matches […]
Suggestion to journalists: Contact and interview the clients of crap lawyers who use "AI" to "research" and compose bullshit-ridden legal briefs. https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter […]
Ethics? What's that? Polymarket (gambling company) undisclosed payoffs to "influencers" is just one notable example […]
Excellent piece in the Hollywood Reporter about a scheme -- funded by the 0.01% -- to discredit journalism they don't like: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/
The HR often does noteworthy reporting about our increasingly […]
Thunderbird email client (Linux) displays ridiculously different font sizes in message bodies -- sometimes too small to even qualify as fine print -- that I've decided to display text-only. VERY ugly but at least I don't have to keep resizing...
All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 54,704: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondaryB
Even for Google, a monopolist that is working to turn the open Web into a closed-off system of surveillance and corporate control, its "reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification"" push is anti-user control-freakery at its most arrogant and disgusting. @pluralistic explains […]
I'm trying to find out if my 401K plan(s) have "invested" in SpaceX and, if so, how I can move the money to funds that are free of this bubble stock.