Hourly perversion; Hillbilly redux; Ingram hypocrisy: Newsletter 31 July 2024
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Hourly perversion; Hillbilly redux; Ingram hypocrisy: Newsletter 31 July 2024

ByJosh Bernoff

Newsletter 55: Why paying people by the hour is the most pervasive and perverse trend in business. Plus the Hugos reject automated entries, JD Vance gets rich off his VP nod, Ingram bans a book about AI in publishing, three people to follow and three books to read. Nobody smart or skilled should work by…

On truth, politics, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris
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On truth, politics, JD Vance, and Kamala Harris

ByJosh Bernoff

Honestly, you’re going to have vote for president in about 100 days. So stop credulously sharing crap that doesn’t matter. There’s an account circulating about the masturbatory practices of Trump’s vice presidential candidate JD Vance, supposedly documented in his book Hillbilly Elegy. There are two problems with that. It’s false. It’s not in the book….