ThinkBench

05/24/2024

NewsCorp Inc has signed a multi year content deal with OpenAI.

Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp Inc👿, is the company that brought us hashtag 📺, New York Post 📰, and other "news" outlets that lean so far right that you need your peripheral vision to watch or read.

This is not a good thing.

10/12/2023

What if it was ADHD Awareness Month and they forgot to tell anyone?

08/09/2023

07/02/2022

05/18/2022

The pricing of products is turning from art into science

10/11/2021

Meanwhile, benefits are being cut, crimping disposable incomes

01/28/2021

In defence of millennial investors

10/22/2020

Though less common than in the past, Legionella bacteria and other dangerous pathogens still lurk in drinking water

09/09/2020

Crying 'Pe*****le' Is the Oldest Propaganda Trick in the Book

The far-right trolls accusing Tom Hanks of pe******ia aren’t original. They’re just the latest propagandists borrowing a tactic that long, long predates the internet.

The far-right trolls accusing Tom Hanks of pe******ia aren’t original. They’re just the latest propagandists borrowing a tactic that long, long predates the internet.

08/25/2020

On Crime in America...

I am not sure how you talk about this without at least referencing Donohue-Levitt but that is another matter.

Will you get robbed this year? How would you rate your chances? Over 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, the national Survey of Economic Expectations asked respondents…

08/05/2020

The race to rid the world of pain

07/30/2020

Covid-19 Data in the US Is an ‘Information Catastrophe’

The order to reroute CDC hospitalization figures raised accuracy concerns.

But that's just one of the problems with how the country collects health data.

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-in-the-us-is-an-information-catastrophe/

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