Living with Peak TV, Netflix, and the Gang

Personal Writings Technology

            Mexico City        Netflix has been criticized for years about it’s close-to-the-vest refusal to disclose viewing and audience numbers for its programs.  HBO of course likes to chortle about how many watch “Game of Thrones” or “Sopranos” or whatever.  Amazon Prime, originally part of the Bezos empire will say how many watch its NFL …

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Monopolists Beware!

Technology

             Mexico City       “Haters gonna hate” is the line that we’ve all heard by now.  Lina Kahn, the legal antitrust scholar who was Biden’s surprise appointment to head the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has been a controversial nominee.  She has also been the target of all manner of businesses and their lawyers, especially in …

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Behind the OpenAI’s Ouster, the Real Story is Always Money

Non-Profit Tech Technology

            Marble Falls      One big difference between artificial intelligence, dominated by computers, and human intelligence, just barely handled by people, that might give AI the edge in the future would have to do with money and how much its pursuit might mitigate rational calculations.  All the headlines indicate that Silicon Valley in obsessed this …

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