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March 29, 2021: Disinformation and a stuck boat
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A giant container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal last week, messing up global commerce, around the time that three Big Tech CEOs went in front of Congress to explain how they messed up everything else in our lives.
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• House Hearing on Combating Online Misinformation and Disinformation (March 25, 2021): "The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter testified on their companies' efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Lawmakers from two House Energy and Commerce subcommittees pressed the witnesses on various topics, including government regulation of social media content, each company’s policies on removing content, and protecting children on the internet."
• What Can We Learn from a Big Boat Stuck in a Canal? (Matt Stoller, March 28, 2021): "Just make ships bigger, went the thinking, until a big boat got stuck in a canal, taking down global supply chains with it. It seems so dumb. And it is. ... It's a dumb way to organize a global supply chain system, just as it was dumb to build ships that are too big to fit into canals."
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Angélique Kidjo |
Once In a Lifetime
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Listener comments!
Hello!
I missed last week's but have not had a chance to go back ...
hi everyone!
also, hi, Mark and friends!
Chris, if word gets out that that ship is full of toilet paper, things could get ugly!
I try regularly to ask myself:
What is convenient and comforting for _me_ to believe?
"But did you see *that*?"
Congressman, I have a busy schedule, I kill a lot of people...
Let people believe all kinds of stupid, weird, correct, nutty, and hateful stuff just so long as one of them can't kill twenty people in ten seconds.
That depends on whether for him Butt Town is on the same route as Fun Time.
Not ONLY when they have guns, not at all, but guns (generally defined) are lots better at it than anything else relatively easy to carry and not a chemical or biological weapon.
I forget who wrote, "A fine isn't a punishment, it's a business expense.".
thanks, Skeleton Crew!
Thanks, Mark. Stay vigilant!
Thanks, Mark! Much appreciated.
Great to see youse all, Technoids!