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Smart technology needs to start with people if it wants to get smarter

Workplace Insight

First was Google’s decision in the heat of the dot-com crash to switch its model from unbiased search results to results supported by advertisements. This was not their original intention. While we already know that social media can be harmful, we risk greater exposure to these harms.

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I saw a coworker’s email complaining about me, delayed written offer, and more

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There’s probably some constructive conversation to be had, and I think you’ll feel better if you take an action that moves you forward rather than staying mired in the bad feelings of it. Many of these people are ex-military or former government employees and refer to me as my last name, which is fine by me. Logan Tetrazzini.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

As in other industrial complexes, there is also “regulatory capture,” which includes rewarding friendly government officials with high-paying jobs after they leave regulatory agencies. By 2019, Big Pharma’s $6.6 billion yearly spending on TV advertis ing ranked it as the fourth-largest spender of TV ads in the United States.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. The revolutionaries suggested that government funding once provisioned to the church should be reallocated to medical practice, thus creating a modernized religion.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. Two year later, Hobbs co-founded Hobbs/Herder Advertising, an industry interrupter and leader in real estate marketing. Sue Meitner.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. An important lesson of the pandemic is that physical illness and mental disorder are governed by different rules and they require different solutions. Advertising is built on this principle. Proteins keep us alive.

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Around 74,000 women a year are pushed out of their jobs when they become pregnant

Workplace Insight

percent of women are sacked, constructively dismissed or made redundant whilst pregnant, on maternity leave or within a year of returning from maternity leave. In 2016, the coalition government commissioned a report to better understand how widespread pregnancy and maternity discrimination is. The report found that 12.3