Tuesday, December 16, 2025

A Super Bowl musing: Can pro sports be more than a billionaire bacchanalia?

A cyber-savvy deep pocket is claiming he has the key to ‘democratizing’ our sporting landscape

What will generative AI mean for the racial wealth gap? 

Big technological shifts have a history of keeping Black and other marginalized groups at or near the bottom of economic opportunities. Will this time be different?
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Leonardo DiCaprio Uses Oscar Speech to Spread Awareness on Climate Change

DiCaprio, who has been nominated several times but won for the first last night, accepted the award for Best Actor for his film The Revenant.

Fox News Host Sues Roger Ailes Over Sexual Harassment

"Ailes has unlawfully retaliated against Carlson and sabotaged her career because she refused his sexual advances and complained about severe and pervasive sexual harassment," the lawsuit says.

NRA’s news outlet smears Women’s March as violent by equating it with a completely...

The NRA seems to be unaware that the Women’s March made headlines because it was peaceful and there were “exactly zero arrests” that day.

The gig is up

Gig work is making capitalism harsher.
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Nearly 2 million people in India could lose citizenship in biggest disenfranchisement in history

Nearly 2 million people in the northeast state of Assam are at risk of being rendered stateless in India after the government...

‘Largest IT outage in history’ causes global chaos: Flights grounded, hospitals and banks disrupted

As the global community grapples with the aftermath of what is being termed the largest IT outage in history, the focus remains on restoring normalcy and addressing the vulnerabilities exposed by this incident.

Libeled by the Washington Post in a ‘false news’ McCarthyite attack on alternative media

Is the Pentagon behind this massive hit on independent journalism?