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❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office

Analysis: Trump’s anti-press outburst hits differently with a Saudi prince by his side
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/as-its-voice-dectation-app-takes-off-wispr-secures-25m…

As its voice dictation app takes off, Wispr secures $25M from Notable Capital | TechCrunch
Voice AI company Wispr is raising $25 million in funding merely months after its $30 million Series A.

Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Echoing concerns of Pope Leo XIV over a new era of unilateralism and warfare,
the three highest-ranking U.S. Catholic archbishops on Monday said
“the moral foundation for America’s actions in the world”
has been thrown into question by a resurgence in the use or threat of military force,
including in Venezuela and Greenland.

The archbishops,
Cardinals Blase Cupich of Chicago,

Top Catholic cardinals say U.S. foreign policy raises moral questions
Three senior archbishops said recent events raise “basic questions about the use of military force” and have put America’s moral role “under examination.”

This is an excellent piece on the moral panic over the entirely reasonable Maccabi hooligan ban.
The UK is now willing to undermine British institutions to protect Israel | Politics | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinion…

The UK is now willing to undermine British institutions to protect Israel
British football fans are regularly banned without scandal. Why is it that Israeli fans cannot be?

Here's my latest Prairie Voice article about old school Midwestern football and what it's become today with NIL and the lack of moral commitment to purpose:
https://prairievoice.com/p/from-bugeaters-to-billion-dollar

From Bugeaters to Billion-Dollar Brands
How Midwestern Football Schools Lost Their Educational Souls to the Altar of Commerce

Das ist nicht nur eine Frage der Moral, es ist vor allem eine rationale Herausforderung, ob Demokratien und die interantionale Staatengemeinschaft das dulden können.
Diese Milliardäre können Staaten kaufen, manipulieren, in Kriege verwickeln, kolonisieren ...
Niemand sollte so viel Reichtum anhäufen können.
Es ist höchst an der Zeit, diese Maschinerie aus Selbstbedienung, Machtakkumulation und Zerstörung zu unterbinden.

Soziale Ungleichheit: Wir müssen Superreiche endlich stärker besteuern
Das reichste Prozent der Welt vermehrt sein Vermögen massiv, während Millionen weiter abrutschen. Das ist ein Risiko für die Demokratie – auch in Deutschland.

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

We have learnt to look at the world through ratings, reviews, and whether a place is “Instagrammable.”
Nuance is pressed flat into a system of stars.
Even mountains and valleys are scored on Google Maps,
while countless unassuming places slip silently through the net.
I often wonder, ruefully, how much we are missing when only the ranked and the rated rise to the surface.
It begins to feel as though such systems are not merely cataloguing the world,
bu…

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For over twenty years I've been seeking out alternative stories in our surviving material culture and sharing them with my photographs and words.

Gastrulation of the blastulation
The blastulation of the morula gives the blastula.
The morula is like a mulberry of cells;
the blastula has a liquid-filled center...
-- Tom Sharp,
A tiny quote from Tom Sharp's (poet, scientist, and, and, and...) excellent web site:
https://sharpgiving.com/index.html

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Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/google-assista

Google Assistant will stick around a bit longer than expected for some Android users
Google has announced that it needs a bit more time to make Gemini the new default digital helper for most of its users.