Yep, there are some interesting connections to how advertising got started and got perfected into that repetition based system that reinforces beliefs by familiarization. The consolidation is just centralization of that process.
I also don’t think the consolidation is the root cause, it’s a tool.
I would be totally fine with it.
The problem is that it is factually worth a lot of money. Saving a life, either through an organ or by blood donations because they’re needed for surgery, is nearly impossible to evaluate.
And lots of people need stuff that isn’t blood or organs. If I need a car, or place to live and someone in society dies and has a car or a place to live and that’s not being given to me, but instead it’s turned into cash and assets.
That’s asymmetric.
Now I’m not saying I’m entitled that society should just give me everything I want. So I wouldn’t call it “unfair”.
But on the other hand, giving away organs and blood, completely for free, is a bit much.
That’s why I’m against it.
THAT is what happened?! Wow, that is hilarious!
The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose.
I am SO curious what will happen here and what the final verdict will be. Trying to cheat someone out of 250 million has to result in some enormous fine at least right?
Really interesting because I could easily see this go both ways.
Scientists from a psychology releated field doing dodgy stuff is pretty much expected. “Researching comments” from a subreddit is weird, especially if it’s done without asking for consent first. That was a thing that bit someone else the other time. Also, a specific researcher being stuck on this support group in particular? For 6 six years or more? Why? If it’s not specifically targeting that group, why is that worthy of study in particular? Aren’t there other self help groups online that could be researched?
But also, it’s not just a subreddit, it’s an LLC and if there is money involved the pendulum of truth could easily swing the other way instead.
tldr: Da fuq they doin’ ova there?!
That’s a bit different, because he’s selling finished products. He can just check all the boxes from star wars over dnd to collectible card games and order the value pack from a middle man and then it’s all about the location of the shop and the competition in the area.
You don’t have to understand why a specific product works if what you’re doing is essentially providing a mixed physical storefront for a bunch of corporations.
But this lady is now going to have to make important strategic decisions, about which games to give funding, which ones to cancel, what kind of hardware to even envision.
Compare it to valve, who sat down and build their own controller and handheld, because they looked at 20 years of market and product development and thought they could do better and delivered. You have to know a lot about why you want hardware for what purpose and what makes it better or worse for that purpose to do that.
XBOX, theoretically, same as any other big name in media, could be the place where a new media franchise is born that dominates the next 50 years of pop culture. THAT is the kind of position this is.
That they won’t because they can’t “build the next skyrim / WoW” is kind of the problem.
Being a personal fan of video games isn’t necessarily required to succeed in running a gaming company.
What the F***, yes it is.
(that’s arstechnica saying that though, not the new xbox boss person)
I don’t think that’s the problem.
By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.
The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.
Like, wtf is that sentence even supposed to mean.
Pretty much every single time someone does a study on “technological* impact on learning” for example handwriting and typing, they mess with the methodology or they don’t have a good control group or system. And then the result is always that their traditional system is better.
They never genuinely switch methods and put effort into TEACHING the new tech and with the new tech. Obviously you can’t just hand out laptop and the competence just… diffuses into the kids, because internet. That’s nonsense.
Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores.
one guy noticing a correlation better not be “good science” at this point.
openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.
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See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?
Nothing would change. It should be obvious that Trump isn’t the one making the decisions and neither would be JD Vance.
I wouldn’t even be surprised if there was little attention being given to a funeral. Just as a show of power of how disposable the figure heads are.
They could go the way of a leadership cult they have in north korea, where btw, the title of kim il sung is still technically, officially head of state, even though he’s dead. They simply invented a new position and keep him as eternal big leader. + something with christian nationalism, like “trump is watching over you guys from heaven”.
Maybe I’m too pessimistic too, we’ll see if “they” will allow the mid term elections to take place or how that will go down.