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Showing posts with label bad business behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad business behavior. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 02, 2026

O brave new world!

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I've been buoyed by reading that Gen Zers - although they don't seem to have any problems letting ChatGPT read the books they're...
Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Why not just exile them to Australia?

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One of the best tourista things to do in Dublin is to pay a visit to Kilmainham Gaol. Although many people know of Kilmainham for the role i...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

The Gambler

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From the long list of possible vices, gambling was never going to be my vice of choice.  Oh, I'm still capable of yelling 'wanna bet...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Take a nice big gulp, Zuck.

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The other day, I was at my volunteer job - basically, hanging out in the expressive therapy room in a large day shelter - and we started kic...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

And now, on the election fraud front...

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Anne Manning Martin and Michael Walsh were both hoping to appear on the ballot in the upcoming Massachusetts primary, Martin as a candidate ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2026

I truly want this 3D house printing thing to work...

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God knows, Cairo, Illinois, isn't the only community in dire need of housing. After all, I live in Boston - one of the most expensive ci...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Shut this startup down!

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The last thing in the world I would consider doing is renting my home out as an Airbnb, VRBO, or Home Away. Even if I had a spare place to s...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Spies are everywhere. (So glad I'm out of the fray.)

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A few weeks ago, my sister Trish retired. A week before her big day, she turned 67. Since she always had a part-time job in high school, and...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

It's not that they're tone deaf. It's that they really don't care

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Google. Salesforce. Oracle. Microsoft. They've all been pinkslipping thousands of workers to help fund the buildout of the AI infrastruc...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Data Labelers Unite! (LFG!)

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It will come as no surprise to anyone that AI, along with its tremendous potential to (along with the occasional good thing) wreck the envir...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

Colonel Mustard Did It

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Is it just me, or do certain things confer an aura of value and goodness? I observed this in business, when I realized that if you priced yo...