Jen Senko

@BrainDryClean
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Filmmaker, Author, truth-in-media activist. Animal rights. Director/author of The Brainwashing of My Dad documentary and book
Official WWWwww.thebrainwashingofmydad.com
Jen SenkoDec 22, 2022
Robert ReichDec 21, 2022

A large and growing sector of the U.S. economy produces nothing of value.

Derivatives, private equity, hedge funds.

Every winner comes at the expense of a current or future loser.

The only things this “zero-sum” sector produces is more money for the wealthy.

Jen SenkoDec 22, 2022
Polychrome Dec 22, 2022
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show

MSG Entertainment began using facial recognition at venues in 2018.

Ars Technica
Jen SenkoDec 22, 2022
Erick FernandezDec 22, 2022

Sean Hannity confirms in a deposition that he knew he was lying when he was pushing The Big Lie on his show immediately after the election.

“I did not believe it for one second.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/business/media/sean-hannity-fox-trump-election.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims

On Wednesday, lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems shared some of the strongest evidence yet that some Fox employees knew what they broadcast about the claims was false.

Jen SenkoDec 21, 2022
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Jen SenkoDec 18, 2022
EileenKiffinDec 17, 2022
Elliott Downing has the solution
Jen SenkoDec 18, 2022
Simon WeißDec 16, 2022
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
Jen SenkoDec 18, 2022
Sean GonsalvesDec 18, 2022

Y'all do realize that poor people pay more for slower Internet service than those in wealthy neighborhoods, right?

And one recent study found that poor, mostly black and brown neighborhoods in LA County pay anywhere from $10 to $40 more per month than mostly white, higher-income neighborhoods for the exact same service.

It's expensive to be poor in America

Wrote a story about it. Wanna read it, here it go

https://muninetworks.org/content/study-low-income-la-county-neighborhoods-pay-more-internet-service-wealthier-neighborhoods

Study: Low Income LA County Neighborhoods Pay More for Internet Service Than Wealthier Neighborhoods

A new study from the Digital Equity LA initiative lays bare how low-income communities of color are impacted by the quiet business decisions of the county’s monopoly Internet service provider. Slower and More Expensive/Sounding the Alarm: Disparities in Advertised Pricing for Fast, Reliable Broadband details how Charter Spectrum “shows a clear and consistent pattern of the provider reserving its best offers - high speed at low cost - for the wealthiest neighborhoods in LA County.” Not only does it highlight how economically vulnerable households in LA County pay more for slower service than those in wealthy neighborhoods, it also provides evidence for how financially-strapped households are also saddled with onerous contracts and are rarely targeted by advertisements for Charter Spectrum’s low cost plans.

community broadband networks
Jen SenkoDec 18, 2022
Anton ☮️🚂Dec 18, 2022
Of course he is with another Traitor to our country.
Jen SenkoDec 13, 2022
David RothschildDec 13, 2022
Nice piece on New York Times' pro-Republican false equivalency bias, along with its reluctance to actually describe political policy & plausible effects on the actual situation in US (preferring to couch policy discussions in horserace terms) https://www.salon.com/2022/12/10/how-the-new-york-times-helped-win-the/ (with a nice H/T to my 2017 paper with Duncan Watts: Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media.)
How the New York Times helped Republicans win the House

Salon.com
Jen SenkoDec 13, 2022
MeidasTouch Dec 13, 2022

BREAKING: Twitter has dissolved its Trust & Safety Council in its entirety, per a new internal email.

The Council focused on Online Safety and Harassment, Human and Digital Rights, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health, Child Sexual Exploitation, and Dehumanization on Twitter.