#12
“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
This newsletter is an exercise in exploring the intersection of Mind, Money & Machine to see what is spawns. Occasional personal observations. If you enjoy this issue, please like & share it with all you think may find it useful, and subscribe below:
Money
The findings led to the pause of some global clinical trials studying hydroxychloroquine so researchers could check for any safety concerns. Outside experts, however, quickly raised concerns after noticing inconsistencies in the data.
As trendy clothes and other products become more accessible and affordable, there is increasingly less status attached to luxury goods.
The upper classes have found a clever solution to this problem: luxury beliefs. These are ideas and opinions that confer status on the rich at very little cost, while taking a toll on the lower class.
Mind
For months, public health experts have urged Americans to take every precaution to stop the spread of Covid-19—stay at home, steer clear of friends and extended family, and absolutely avoid large gatherings.
Now some of those experts are broadcasting a new message: It’s time to get out of the house and join the mass protests against racism.
ML
After a decade and a string of legal actions, an AlgorithmWatch experiment shows that search engines still suggest slanderous, false and disparaging statements.
Ten years and six months ago, a Paris court ruled that Google was guilty of slander when it suggested to add “fraud” after the name of a company when users typed it in the search bar.
Since then, several individuals, firms and anti-discrimination organizations sued Google and other search engines over slanderous suggestions.
Half Thoughts. To be fleshed out. Possibly useful.
A Black, Female and White male employee had stellar years by all accounts. All were passed over for promotion in favour of 3 white males who, comparably, had lesser years. A case of racial bias, gender bias, asshole manager or all in one? How does HR handle this?
Might “Silence is Violence” suffer the same fate as "I'm with her"? Statements that are socially acceptable (luxury) beliefs that do not erode the Bradley effect.
The Bradley effect (less commonly the Wilder effect) is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some US government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other.