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The latest filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation suit against Fox nails something critics have long argued for.
Fox is not a news organization. It's something else.
But what is this other thing? In this thread, I will try to answer that.
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Curious what people think about the Times publishing this piece, aside from opinions about the professor's ideas. (Full disclosure: I think his views are reprehensible.)
A Yale Professor Suggested Mass Suicide for Old People in Japan. What Did He Mean? https://nyti.ms/3RSYSOg
Fun fact - #layoffs are a social contagion amongst businesses, and do little (to nothing) to actually help companies recover during economic downturns.
Don’t take my word for it - this comes from years of study and scholarly research:
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
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