Censoring Social Media -- Kavanaugh the Divider -- Free Beer!

Jodel’s measures are expensive. The company spends about one-third of its budget on moderating social media content, including paying its engineers to improve the algorithm’s ability to detect objectionable content. It now has more than 30,000 users serving as moderators, and the algorithm frequently prompts moderators to explain their decisions.  WSJ

Keeping an eye on the 'Net

is costing more money and sweat

than companies like,

so either they hike

their rates or the whole thing forget.

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The confirmation battle over the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has left the country as it was before President Trump selected him: deeply divided, politically polarized and with many people hostile toward those of opposing views.  WaPo

The madness we tend to embrace

when diff'rent opinions we face

can even divide

a groom from his bride,

and shred rule of law into lace.

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As the Cleveland Indians took the field in the bottom of the fifth inning in Game 1 of this ALDS Friday, Eddie Flores turned to fans sitting around him in the Crawford Boxes section of Houston’s Minute Maid Park and made a prophetic pledge.  Astros outfielder George Springer was going yard to open the inning, Flores declared, and when he did, Flores would buy beers for the entire section.  Sure enough, Springer put one into the left field bleachers. Keeping his word, Flores flagged down the nearest beer man.  The cost? Close to $300.  WaPo

Good thing that it wasn't Babe Ruth

that Flores bet on in his booth;

the Sultan of Swat

such wonders has wrought

that the Men's Room would float to Duluth!