Curations from the Human Jungle
[I found this article refreshingly free of anti-Amazon rhetoric. It quietly and fairly makes the point that despite its success, Amazon is the poster child for the consequences and inevitability of unbridled capitalism. The iniquities of wealth distribution continue unabated. Eat the rich. SB SM] By ORIN STARN published originally on Sapiens MAY 24, 2023 https://www.sapiens.org/culture/anthropology-amazon-warehouse-workers/... Continue Reading →
What Does AI Think of Silverback Digest? The invitation came from Google to be a prototype tester for their pending foray into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), called Bard. (Get it?) "AI" doesn't have a lot of relevance here in The Jungle, but curiosity got the better of me, so I signed up. Soon... Continue Reading →
[Silverback Kent is our crypto consultant for The Jungle. This post is from his newsletter Kent's Corner. You can sample more and subscribe at: https://kenth.substack.com/ PS--This Silverback invests only in bananas. SB SM] Whoops. I did it again. I let life take precedent over my newsletter for more than a month. The guilt has been... Continue Reading →
Sunday Ramble [Silverback Kent Halliburton is our resident cryptocurrency guy, meaning he understands it better than the rest of us apes. He travelled recently to Brasil and these are some of his observations as published in his newsletter Kent's Corner. Subscribe at kenth@substack.com . PS- The academy has decided that the appropriate way to spell... Continue Reading →