War is the greatest of misdirections. It is propaganda theatre. When a leader is screwing up, war is the biggest…
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When Stupid Leaders Push For War
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There Is No “AI Blob”, But Regulators Really Wish There Were
According to the Guardian, the robots are misbehaving again. Top AI models are “ignoring human instructions,” “deleting emails without permission,”…
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People who fall for propaganda are incompetent? You don’t say!
Yeah. Of course they are worse at their jobs: they think the hack to success is to parrot whatever nincompoopity…
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Don’t ever try to be a saviour for journalism. Jeff Bezos is finding out the hard way.
Journalism collapsed long before Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post, but you’d never know from recent headlines from vested interests.…
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The Washington Toast: Welcome to the Slow Slide
The newspaper industry has been defunct for a very long time. Many papers folded. Only a handful didn’t end up…
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Trying to Resurrect Dinosaurs: The Washington Post isn’t Coming Back from the Brink
Much ado about the dying newspaper known as the Washington Post. Not from the public, mind you. But from other…
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Missing the big picture of Mark Carney’s Davos Speech
I am not much into political theatre. Speeches, like press conferences, are canned events with little to no news value.…