Search all posts
-
Most Recent Posts
Sites of Interest
Category Archives: The filthy rich
Good things are happening: climate change
♥ Construction has begun on a wind turbine farm off the coasts of New York and Rhode Island. (A personal wince: according to the Daily News article, the turbines will provide energy for, uh, East Hampton.) ♥ In a more … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Good Things Happening, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged a million trees, climate change, Daily News, green spaces, induction cooking surface, New York Times, NYC gas law, offshore wind turbines, parks, West End Avenue, wind turbine farm
Comments Off on Good things are happening: climate change
Profit motive screws a non-profit into the abyss
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit suicide hotline that uses AI-driven chat technology, has been sharing information with its parent company’s for-profit arm to create customer service software.
Posted in Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged Crisis Text Line, suicide hotline
Comments Off on Profit motive screws a non-profit into the abyss
Contemplating Freud’s holy trinity
Elon Musk’s apparent amorality got me thinking, not for the first time, about morality. A convenient way of looking at morality is through Freud’s conceptual triad of id, ego and superego. So I pulled out both my Latin-English dictionary and … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich
Tagged "libertarians, Adam Wyden, conscience, ego, Elon Musk, id, Nancy Bass Wyden, Ron Wyden, Sigmund Freud, superego, The Strand, transactional analysis
Comments Off on Contemplating Freud’s holy trinity