The problem with corporate America becoming politically active is that it encourages employees to behave the same way. And that doesn’t always turn out so well for the company … or the employees, for that matter. As Google, Reddit, Trader Joe’s and lots of other corporations have learned, hiring employees,[…] Read On
Becoming a better person doesn’t have to be such a chore, depending on how low you set the bar. At least that’s the theory. I mean, when you start out as low as I did, improvement can be a piece of cake. To use a fiscal metaphor, my karma balance[…] Read On
How long before the federal government has an arbiter of truth and justice with the power to cancel and erase anything and anyone? Think that future is too far-fetched? Too Orwellian to be plausible? Too dystopian to be real? Think again. Facebook now has independent “fact-checkers” reviewing posts for misinformation.[…] Read On
ICYMI, actress and former mixed marshal artist Gina Carano has been canceled for goofing on masks, lampooning pronouns and likening today’s extreme political divide to nazi Germany — the way conservatives are being demonized like the jews were. All this happened on Instagram. Of course. Carano was fired by Disney[…] Read On
If you say you want schools and businesses to open and don’t qualify it by adding the ubiquitous word “safely,” you’re deemed insensitive and accused of putting convenience and money ahead of children’s and other’s health. Here’s the thing. If you waited until it was “safe” to do everything you’d[…] Read On
The media isn’t paid to reflect reality, it’s paid to get eyeballs. – Some Blogger, c. 2008 While blogging for CNET back in 2008, I observed that online media was generating headlines and oftentimes content to be clickable, not necessarily accurate. Hey, don’t laugh — that was an epiphany back then.[…] Read On
Now that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and pretty much every other social media app has officially nuked Donald Trump, countless supporters of the soon-to-be former President are posting and tweeting about the injustice of it all, urging their followers to cancel whichever app they happen to be on. WTF. This is[…] Read On