Stray Thought 0
A cartoon can tell a whole story in six minutes.
A reality show never ends.
Personally, I prefer cartoons.
They are more real than reality shows.
Sic Nunquam Tyrannis 0
Michael in Norfolk finds a straw at which to grasp. A nugget:
Republican Family Values 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh G. discusses Katie Miller’s call for more teen pregnancies. (No, I am not making that up.)
Aside:
When I was in high school (mumble) years ago, I had a classmate who got pregnant.
The school make her drop out.
They did not make the father drop out.
Just sayin’.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Potentially harmful to society? Security maven Bruce Schneier is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article:
By the Book 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann makes a convincing case that we are living in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Promoting puerility? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta reports that “a new pre-press study that found 10 minutes of AI assistance measurably reduced persistence and impaired independent cognitive performance.”
More about Big Tech”s incubators of inanity at the link.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Farron argues that Trump’s current acting Attorney-General, Todd Blanche, just said the quiet part out loud. (Warning: Language.)
Read the news report that Farron discusses.
American Stasi 0
Also at the Colorado Sun, attorney Mario Nicolais tells the story of what he had to deal with in securing the release of a teenager who fled to the United States to join his family after having been tortured in his home country, only to be snatched up by ICE and sent to a detention center concentration camp for being.
Frankly, this is not how I would like to see my tax dollars at work.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
And pretending isn’t going to make the changes go away.
At the Colorado Sun, Michael Booth offers “10 signs we can see right now” from his home state. Here’s one item that my eye, probably because I live next to a gold course:
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Short promo at the one minute mark.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, again, one of those “responsible gun owners” feels justified in ejecting the contents of his portable phallus at another driver on the nation’s highways.
We are a broken society.