Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A tool for learning? At Psychology Today Blogs, Michael Hogan warns us that “(o)ver-reliance on AI risks eroding students’ knowledge and skill development through reduced cognitive effort.”
The Interview 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, R. Mark Bernstein asks, “If you needed a job done, would you hire a person with this resume?”
The Crypto Con Artists 0
Emma talks with Molly White, crypto and tech industry researcher, about the Trump family’s participation in the crypto con and about the larger con that is crypto.
You can visit Molly White’s website.
Aside:
Emma uses the phrase “cryto industry.” I guess, if an industry can be based on thin air and maintained by wishful thinking, that might be a valid phras–oh, never mind.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value. To illustrate:
Former USAID staffer Karen Van Roekel, writing at the Des Moines Register, is dismayed at the mean for the sake of mean in the Trump maladministration’s decision to shut down that agency. A snippet (emphasis added):
What’s in a Name? 0
According the Steve M. quite a bit. Speaking of bits, here’s a bit from his article:
If we call Trump’s urban invasions a war, we should give the war its correct name: the War on Democrats. That’s literally what it is.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.
Crowd Control, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
U. S. Tennis Association to broadcasters: If persons boo Trump, don’t tell anyone.
Vie Joe My God.
Afterthought:
I guess they don’t want to hurt Donald Trump’s tender fee-fees.
If only Donald Trump showed such any concern for anyone else’s tender fee-fees.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs random acts of politeness.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones, who served as Idaho Attorney-General and on the Idaho State Supreme Court, reveals that he is somewhat concerned about the fate of the rule of law in the United States. A snippet:
Other nations, friend and foe alike, have seen the rapid erosion of the rule of law in America and are reconsidering the wisdom of continuing to rely on the US as a safe haven for investing in the future.
His entire article is worth a read.
Also, too.
The Fifth Horseman, One More Time 0
Afterthought:
The sign in front of RFK Jr. as he testifies reads “The Honorable Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”
I submit that said statement is an oxymoron.
The Key to the Club 0
In the course of a longer article about Donald Trump’s plan fever dream to evict Palestinians from Gaza so at to turn it into a Trump resort–and the cruelty, avarice, and cold-heartedness inherent in said play–Tom Moran mentions, almost in passing, the lesson that Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers have learned. It’s quite simple, really.
Flatter Trump, and you’re in the club. Challenge him, and you’re dead meat.