BurningbirdVery interesting piece by Sam Bibble at Gawker on Justine Sacco. Sacco was the PR person who tweeted a bit of satire that blew up in her face, and almost destroyed her career. The problem with Twitter is every post lacks context. You don’t know the person to know if they’re joking. You haven’t seen the […]
oops! I discovered these were 2014 bills, not 2015 bills. Sigh. My bad. However, the issue of bias based on economic status stands. earlier I accidentally stumbled on to a new landlord/tenant bill introduced into the current Missouri legislation session. It’s HB 1982. Among other things, it would actually criminalize non-payment of rent. Yes, if you’re […]
My senior psychology research project was about “learned helplessness”, based on the work by Martin E. P. Seligman. He saw it as the underlying basis for depression, while I was interested in its effect on workers. I have written about learned helplessness in the past. Oddly enough, one of the writings is titled, Learned Terrorism, posted […]