In Russia the dogs have no food. In America the dogs won't eat the dog food. Each has a crisis of legitimacy but of their own kind.
Russian elite leaves Moscow on private planes en masse.
Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault. Freedom of the press is a hollow doctrine if the only news media is written or published by independently wealthy individuals who don’t need to get paid for their labor. Where did the media’s money go? It’s complicated…
We Are Living Through The End Of The Useful Internet. Just Look At What’s Happening To Reddit.
AI Is a Lot of Work New York Magazine. The deck: “As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.” First gig workers, now taskers. Silicon Valley does seem adept at classification struggle, doesn’t it? At inventing new classification that make workers worse off?
Update: Spirit shuts down 737 lines after Machinists Union votes to strike Leeham News and Analysis
Apple stomped all over NYC store workers’ union rights, judge rules The Register. The deck: “Staff show up with the receipts – video footage of law-breaking bosses.”
Learning from David Graeber Red Pepper
Hope in a Bankrupt America The American Conservative
Black Holes Evaporate—Now Physicists Think Everything Else Does, Too Scientific American
Lessons about money & inflation
He was curious as to why it is that is not happening. I did, in effect, quote Upton Sinclair when answering that question. Sinclair said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
As a result, lawyers say they expect the number of defamation cases arising from social media posts and online comments about "regular people" to increase.
In the Queensland case, a judgement handed down on Friday in the District Court in Townsville revealed that Zoe Anne Gooding was found to have defamed her former neighbours, defacto couple Mianka Rodgers and Mick Usher.
The court heard that Ms Gooding, who falsely accused her neighbours of being paedophiles in a community Facebook group, lied that her Facebook account had been hacked.
District Court Judge John Coker said the false accusation had affected the couple so deeply that they abandoned plans to foster a child following the incident in September 2021.
Facebook defamation ruling highlights costly legal dangers of social media posts, say lawyers
