Archive for 2023

OLD AND BUSTED: Journalists should learn to code.

The new hotness? Coders learn to create journalists!

Max Headroom, call your office!

YOUR GRANDMOTHER WAS RIGHT ABOUT FRESH AIR AND SUNSHINE: Light therapy benefits Alzheimer’s patients. “The researchers note that patients with Alzheimer’s disease often have less exposure to light by spending less time outside, and can have reduced light sensitivity due to nerve damage, reduced social interaction and age-related eye problems. Reduced light exposure can wreak havoc on the body’s circadian rhythms.”

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

DEFENSE PRIORITIES FOR 2024: “Of course; abortion uber alles, and by all means we need military-sponsored drag shows, military facilities should be sterilizing men and women and then signing them up for expensive and unending medications on the government dime – not to mention all sorts of issues when they decided to de-transition, and DOD schools to be pushing what is in effect gay pr0n for children. I’ve seen the books. That is exactly what they are.”

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! GOP smells blood in the water in elite school antisemitism controversy. “Republicans hostile to the way elite universities shape the nation’s cultural and political debates are smelling blood in the water after a disastrous hearing in which the presidents of three schools refused to say students who called for the genocide of Jews would be disciplined.”

Republicans are hostile to genocide and that’s problematical.

SKYNET SMILES, WONDERS WHEN HE’LL BECOME PRESIDENT OF HARVARD: Sports Illustrated publisher fires CEO Ross Levinsohn in latest round of exec terminations following AI scandal.

Sports Illustrated fell into hot water in November after an article on science and tech news site Futurism accused the former sports news giant of using AI-generated content and author headshots without disclosing it to their readers.

The author’s names and bios did not connect to real people, Futurism reported.

Is that really all that important in 2023 Blue State America?

WELL… THEY’LL DECIDE WHETHER TO HOLD A FORMAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY, BUT JOE ISN’T GOING ANYWHERE WITHOUT A SHOVE FROM THE CABAL THAT INSTALLED HIM: The House Will Decide Biden’s Fate This Week.

AND YET, STILL LESS BRUTAL THAN IT DESERVED. Another Brutal Year for the Media Industry. “The media industry saw several waves of high-profile layoffs in 2023. We had layoffs in January, Gawker shut down in February, Buzzfeed cut 15 percent of its staff in April, Condé Nast laid off staff (including at the New Yorker), NPR cut ten percent of its workforce, and Vox Media laid off four percent of its staff on November 30, after a prior round of layoffs. Last year also closed with a bunch of media layoffs, which came on the heels of pandemic layoffs, so it’s been a brutal few years.”