Media: TIME Magazine selects its flawed Top 100 AI Innovators List
TIME Magazine does its usual “Top 100” thing and it’s the usual nonsense and irrelevant selection process. I covered this in depth in 2023.
World Happiness Report Annual Nonsense
The annual World Happiness Report is released each spring and it’s still a completely bogus report on happiness. TL;DR: It’s absurd rankings do not measure anyone’s happiness.
Climate: How not to do climate communications
After the attempted assassination of Trump, leading climate enthusiasts say Trump and Republicans are Nazis. Not an effective climate message.
Per journalists, the business is increasingly about being a content mill
The job pays poorly and today is under pressure to “churn out” content “for their potential to amuse and entertain”.
Media hysterics: 84 degrees F is a “heat bomb”
29 deg C is a “heat bomb”. That’s about 84 degrees F. Good grief.
Media: “Last Hope for Our Dying planet?”
An absurd headline from a content mill, allegedly written by a writer, who has no online presence. Can you say AI generated nonsense?
Media: Media’s sexist, racist obsession with “missing white women”
The media overwhelmingly biases coverage of missing people to white women, with men, older adults and POC least likely to be covered.
Students who become activists are among the elite of society
List of the mostly students arrested at Columbia anti-Israel protests. An amazingly elitist group.
Happy 4th of July
The % of Americans who express “pride” in their country is still high, but has dropped a lot over the past 20 years.
Censorship: The First Amendment is Out of Control
Columbia University law professor argues that the First Amendment has gone too far, and it’s time for elites (like him?) to censor our speech.