Poor people bear a greater tax burden because the wealthy can afford to find loopholes.
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social, mobile and more in the 2010s
Great roundup of some key stats from Pew.
Source: Key ways the U.S. changed in the 2010s | Pew Research Center
keep calm and facebook on
Facebook certainly doesn’t act like a company in the midst of a dozen or more crisis situations.
Source: Facebook struggles to clean up its messes in privacy, misinformation and more – Axios
you get an os, and you get an os…
Seems like a questionable idea for everyone to be running their own OS.
Source: Facebook is building its own OS because it doesn’t want to rely on App
too few people of color
Facial recognition is biased in large part because the material used to train it doesn’t use people of color in any meaningful numbers.
Source: Study of 189 face recognition algorithms finds racial bias
more store closings
Bad news on a number of fronts, including the availability of entry-level jobs in communities.
Source: 2019 saw a dramatic spike in US retailers closing stores — Quartz
sin pays
Media will willingingly enable vice as a means to keep its collective head above water in 2020.
Source: Gambling will overwhelm sports media in 2020 – Digiday
taking the cops to court
Cool that using lawsuits to intimidate regulators is something that’s allowed.
Source: Companies to their regulators: See you in court – Axios
make dc films great again
Interesting stuff in this story, but my skepticism that Superman needs to be “relevant” in any way is high. He’s aspirational, the best of us, and should be portrayed as such.
Source: Michael B. Jordan as Superman? DC Comics News on Green Lantern, More – Variety
just don’t get sick
Hearing politicians complain about “socialism” when we’re all paying into the coffers of corporate healthcare is infuriating.
Source: Health-care costs soar so high, it’s like a tax, economists say – The Washington Post
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