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There is evil walking in the world. So much evil. This article tells about the latest dastardly deeds and in this instance, it includes a tech company helping a drug company pitch its opioid drugs to doctors so they can be prescribed to patients. The pursuit of profits is killing us. As I understand it,…
Like I said in my prior post, at this time of the year, there are so many festivities going on. One of them was our company luncheon where I got together with some ladies as others played video games. We got to talking about using Excel to automate our work and one of them said…
Well, it looks like while we were sleeping, the robot revolution progressed on. Now, robots can: read, write, see, hear and understand, speak, smell, touch, move understand emotions, play games, debate, create, and read your mind. With the exception of the last item which is beyond humans’ ken, they cover pretty much most of the…
When does skepticism veers into the ridiculous? This pops up in my news feed. The flat earthers are back! The perturbing thing about the article, aside from the comment that the flat earthers conferences are growing, is the line that flat earthers are generally curious and hyper-skeptical. They question things; they perform experiments to prove…
Yesterday, I had a rather long post about one writer’s positive take on the automation/artificial intelligence/robot trend coming fast at us. I didn’t buy in his positive thesis, even though I wanted to believe in something positive, but his thesis just didn’t convince me – it was too free market oriented. I did want to…
Currently, pharmaceutical companies are under lawsuit for misleading marketing – for promoting LIES about how non-addictive their opioid products are. Cities are suing oil companies for deceiving the public that they don’t really know that fossil fuels are the causing climate change – in other words, for LYING about their knowledge about the real impacts…