#Amazon sucks. WTF are they doing? Tried to buy a backup disk, 2TB SSD USB-C. Should be a slam-dunk, right? Could NOT find it! Literally spent 20 minutes searching pages and pages of irrelevant results with various search strings. #BestBuy had it as the very first search result. Guess who got my business?

I just have to repost, it's way too appropriate! God asks George Santos for some advice... #georgesantos #politics https://medium.com/@c-a-james/george-santos-hangs-with-god-43f0ea246d77

Mission Control: #Apollo 11 (1969) versus #SpaceX (2023). Fascinating differences. Interesting that there was one woman on the #NASA team but none in the #Starship control room. #sexism #elonmusk

Will #AI Destroy All Social Media? It's already beginning. Darwinistic principles apply here: the parasite/host evolutionary principles in action. When there's a resource to be stolen, "creatures" evolve to steal it. AI is getting clever too fast, leapfrogging the social media's traditional anti-bot/anti-spam systems, and creating plausible stories in seconds that, when posted, drain money from legitimate authors. It won't be long before these platforms are useless. #evolution #twitter #facebook #linkedin #tiktok #instagram #medium
https://medium.com/@c-a-james/will-a-i-destroy-all-social-media-41f2ccdabdfc

Medium.com Authors: AI is Stealing Our Money. #medium is being invaded by #AI that write articles and post links as comments, skimming money from the pool available to real authors. https://c-a-james.medium.com/medium-authors-ai-is-stealing-our-money-4e84bf04eec7

What GOP will regulate:
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅

@cajames Old people have made their mistakes and (hopefully) learned from them. Young people will be making mistakes, and these have consequences.
The smart young person learns from older people.

Why Joe #Biden? Sheer Competence. The man knows what he's doing and is good at it. I'm more of a #Bernie guy, but f*ck #policy and #politics. Competence matters; it should be the FIRST requirement for the job. https://medium.com/the-left-is-right/why-joe-biden-the-competence-dimension-f1d209b8b58d
Alternate, no paywall: https://authorcajames.com/why-joe-biden-the-competence-dimension/

We’re often told not to mix business with politics, but consider this:

IL Dem Gov Pritzker just signed into law guaranteed paid leave to all IL workers.😄

MN Dem Gov Walz just signed into law free universal school breakfast & lunch for all children.😄

MI Dem Gov Whitmer just signed into law a repeal of anti-labor right to work for all workers.😄

AR GOP Gov Huckabee just signed into law making child labor easier for corporations to exploit.😳

🎶 One of these things, is not like the others. 🎶

Looking forward to the orange mug shot.

F*cked a Married Lover? Don't Feel Guilty. Don't ever mistake sadness for guilt. Too many people try hard but are driven into #infidelity by indifference or outright callousness from their partners. It's OK to feel sad when this happens, and even regret. But put the #guilt where it belongs. https://c-a-james.medium.com/f-cked-a-married-lover-dont-feel-guilty-fe1c552223d

Robert Reich explains clearly why #SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) failed, and how Republican policies were the direct cause. Anyone who says otherwise is full of BS. @rbreich #economics #fdic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/13/svb-collapse-2008-financial-crisis

Are Adulterers Always Wrong? It's Complicated...
https://medium.com/@c-a-james/are-adulterers-always-wrong-its-complicated-6703b0a6a8fb
alternate (no paywall): https://authorcajames.com/are-adulterers-always-wrong-its-complicated/

Are Adulterers Always Wrong? It's Complicated. I don't usually write about #sexuality and #marriage, but a blame-and-shame piece about #adultery really pissed me off. Adultery is not a good choice, but putting the entire blame on the adulterer completely misses the fact that a relationship involves two people. Why would someone do it? Their partner almost always played a part in whatever situation led to #infidelity, and both parties should look inward. https://medium.com/@c-a-james/are-adulterers-always-wrong-its-complicated-6703b0a6a8fb

Sometime’s we’re so busy fretting about the future of our democracy and our rights that we forget to notice the amazing things happening today. I wrote this piece with a big grin on my face, and I hope it provides one for you as well. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-michigan-miracle?sd=pf

I WAS WRONG: Why Do #Catholic #Priests #Molest Children? I was congratulating myself on a blog blaming #celibacy, then decided to throw in some good science ... and boy was I wrong! The Church never had a #pedophilia rate higher than similar occupations that put men in contact with children, and since the scandals broke, the Church has almost completely stopped child abuse among its priests.
https://medium.com/p/a5805a6cecbb
Alternate: (no paywall): https://authorcajames.com/i-was-wrong-why-do-catholic-priests-molest-children/

Atheist are More Moral than Theists: Part 2. #Religious leaders love to smugly claim #moral superiority over #atheism and #humanism. Only God, they say, can possibly know right from wrong, and we atheists are too stupid to figure it out for ourselves. Not only is this childish, insulting, and ignorant, it’s also dead wrong. The opposite is true. https://medium.com/@c-a-james/atheists-are-more-moral-than-theists-part-2-d6e89b8f8e79 Alternate (no paywall) https://authorcajames.com/atheists-are-more-moral-than-theists-part-2/

Should old people be barred from political office? In my book, this is the definition of discrimination: removing a citizen's rights merely because they belong to a demographic group. A serious journalist made this assertion, and I responded with an angry (unusual for me) reply. I hope you'll check it out, and comment, whichever way you land on this topic. https://c-a-james.medium.com/caren-white-unapologetic-ageist-discrimination-86b4b0b8911

I'm glad to see #HunterBiden finally going on the offensive! The whole mess about his #laptop had obvious #Russian and #Trump fingerprints all over it. Now it looks like the people involved could be in big trouble -- serious laws were broken. #Giuliani, #Bannon, and #Carlson may have to face the music. I sure hope so; the more lawsuits against those assholes the better! #guhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-investigations-retractions-rudy-giuliani-fox-news/

My most recent Opt Out Experiment is online—thanks, Publicbooks! Here’s how I evaded data capture at Disneyland—and more importantly, how Big Tech has hijacked “convenience” to keep us in thrall.

http://www.publicbooks.org/data-free-disney/

More tech details at https://www.optoutproject.net/data-free-disney

#dataprivacyweek