Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Is Amazon racist?

    At the beginning of Black History Month Amazon pulled a documentary about a prominent black man in America. They have given no explanation for doing what they did. Other documentaries about prominent people are still up on the site ready to stream. But not this one even though it was more popular. The documentary began…

  • What trick does Google have up its sleeve?

    The headline reads, “Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing”. Do you believe that? I don’t. I believe that they have reached such ad space dominance that they’ve found a way to crush competitors. Their only concern is squeezing more dollars from connecting users to advertisers. The only reason for them…

  • Deep Nostalgia is deeply creepy

    If you want to bring dead people to life all you have to do is go to MyHeritage. I heard about this from a post on Gizmodo. Called Deep Nostalgia, the resulting videos are reminiscent of the Live Photos feature in iOS and iPadOS where several seconds of video are recorded and saved before and…

  • The notion of an “essential worker” should be offensive to all Americans

    In the United States there is no such thing as an essential worker. Well… there used to be no such thing. COVID-19 has given rise to this term and has pushed some people to the front calling them heroes and deeming them essential while others are not. The entire concept of an “essential business” or…

  • 2024 Republican Presidential possibilities

    2024 Republican Presidential possibilities

    At the top of my list of possibilities for the 2024 Republican nomination for President of the United States are both Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. Both are governors of states that used common sense when it came to COVID-19. Governor Noem exercised a little more probably because it was easier for her state given…

  • Big business support higher minimum wages to crush competition

    Big businesses aren’t interested in raising the minimum wage to help its employees nor do they believe a higher minimum wage will help the poor. They believe it to be a tax on the competition. A minimum wage is a tax on labor and the higher it goes the higher the barrier to entry for…