Arcadia Communications Lab

November 2022

Essays

Saudi Oil’s PR Coup

There’s been much reported on the aggressive efforts Big Oil made at the recent COP27 to obfuscate the issue of climate change and delay any action on it. Today’s “Big Read” in the Financial Times builds on this PR strategy, and the story borders on journalistic malfeasance. Headlined “Saudi Arabia’s Read more…

By Jonathan Salem Baskin, 4 monthsNovember 23, 2022 ago
Essays

Yes, You Will Lose Your Job To A Robot

The fact that technology is changing the jobs landscape is nothing new, and government and social norms have learned to moderate the sharpest edges of such changes in the past…as well as adapt to them. It’s different this time. The scope of the change is far more massive and, by design Read more…

By Jonathan Salem Baskin, 4 monthsNovember 15, 2022 ago
Essays

Boy Geniuses Apologizing

I was struck by Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Bankman-Fried’s recent mea culpas for driving their respective companies into the ground, like it was sincere or that it mattered. Zuckerberg’s apology came as he took away salaries and benefits for 11,000 people, after having wasted $15 billion on a bad business Read more…

By Jonathan Salem Baskin, 4 monthsNovember 11, 2022 ago
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