A recent NYTimes article from 10.23.2023, “New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education,” alerted me to a report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges” The report begins with —>> read more –>>

The public upsurge in white supremacist politics in the last year or so has refocused my attention on the ongoing need to get our history right. To continuously struggle to challenge every assumption about how and why life is organized in the fashion that we find today. In July of —>> read more –>>

This week’s fraud trial appearances by the Trump boys, Don, Jr. and Eric, Executive VP and Executive VP of Development and Acquisitions respectively in the Trump Organization, caused me to reflect on the duties of a manager. “As he [Eric] started his testimony, he said he “never had anything to —>> read more –>>

What expectations and constraints should be placed on the development and ongoing deployment of AI systems? If one thinks about how we evaluate the merits of human sources of knowledge, we can see some useful practices that may help us develop expectations and constraints to govern AI and keep it —>> read more –>>

The NY fraud trial of Trump and his children for flagrantly overstating the valuations of properties is set to start Monday 10.2.2023 with Trump and his offspring called as witnesses. The Attorney General released this graphic showing the impact on his net worth compared to expert valuations. Keep in mind —>> read more –>>

I walk up and down Warren St., about a mile up and a mile back frequently. Sometimes, I claim it as exercise, but mostly it is an opportunity to get out and chat with people. Over the last years of the pandemic, there have been a lot of political/cultural stickers —>> read more –>>

Google turns 25 today. It has a surprisingly benign public image. Google describes its mission as: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Forgotten or ignored is that Google (part of the holding company Alphabet, Inc.) is just a giant advertising machine. —>> read more –>>

With four indictments and 91 charges of crimes committed one cannot help but be buoyed by the notion that Trump might spend his remaining years in jail. His crimes are so many and so manifestly obvious that this seems entirely just, even required. But MAGA America is not just going —>> read more –>>

A video version of the earlier post, “$47 Trillion – the ripoff by the rich and corporations – in two charts – maybe a few more…..” is available on YouTube:

The other day I was poking around in TikTok to see what it is all about. Came across a quote from Karl Marx that struck a chord. “There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery.” Here we —>> read more –>>