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How Stuff Works, Oligarchy Dept. 0

Man says to son,

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Republican Thought Police 0

The Republican thought police are now coming for the National Parks’ Junior Ranger program. Via SFgate, By Kylie Mohr lists examples of material that’s being examined for casting aspersion on the United States. Here’s one example:

Staff at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, for example, asked for leadership to review a Junior Ranger book “for appropriateness of women pirates dressing like men” due to a mention of Anne Bonny, an infamous female pirate.

More stupid at the link.

Afterthought:

Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s the Trump maladministration’s approach to American history.

As one who trained as an historian (and whose ancestors wore the grey, for that matter), I find that repulsive and disgusting.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner.”

Another exposed portable phallus.

Another child treated in another emergency room.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

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QOTD 0

Harry Turtledove;

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Real Big Men 0

Donald Trump, holding a paper labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Accountable? We’ll see you in court.

Nippon Life Insurance has sued OpenAI in federal court in Chicago, alleging that OpenAI engaged in UPL, that is, the unauthorized practice of law. The basis? ChatGPT advised the settling plaintiff in the underlying disability case that she could reopen that dismissed lawsuit. (She had a case of settler’s remorse, not that any settling party has ever felt that way.) Nippon’s complaint alleges that ChatGPT is not an attorney and therefore cannot give legal advice.

Much more–and much more disturbing–AI legal antics at the link.

Afterthought:

Maybe we are not facing the singularity after all.

It’s looking more and more like we are facing the AI slopilarity.

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American Stasi 0

Rick Strom discusses investigative news reports of–er–less than legal behavior by ICE agents.

Visit the Youtube page for links to the reports that Rick discusses.

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Devolution 0

Two diinosaurs and a preto-mammao watch as an asteroid crashes to earth.  One of the diinosaurs says,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Inducing indolence and eroding intellects? I can’t be bothered to answer that, but Robert Lynch gas some thoughts on the matter.

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It’s in the Can 0

Florida man.

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QOTD 0

Bill Downs:

The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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Russian Impulses 0

Thom wonders why Trump hung a picture of Putin in the White House.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.

The 10-year-old girl who died after she was shot in the parking lot of a Sonic drive-in on Tuesday was playing outside the family car, when an 8-year-old child inside the car picked up a gun and accidentally shot her, a Baton Rouge police spokesperson said.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

Abuse it or lose it.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Title:  Insult Bloat.  Frame One, captioned

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Suffer the Children 0

One more time, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.

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Establishmentarians 0

The EFF reports on some establishmentarian copywrongs.

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QOTD 0

Henry S. Haskins:

Avoid membership in a body of persons pledged to only one side of anything.

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