Devolution 0
At the Hartford Courant, Dr. Michael Good marvels at the American regress. Here’s how his article begins:
In 40 years of medical practice I never saw a case of measles or cyclospora food poisoning.
When I started practice in 1983 we had an almost universally utilized measles vaccine that protected our children and an effective food safety public health system that prevented food contamination and halted contaminated food outbreaks while they were still limited in size.
After the dramatic cuts to public health made during the first year of the Trump administration, coupled with RFK Jr’s campaigns against vaccines, dangerous pathogens that have threatened us for millennia have once again been unleashed upon us.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Words fail me.
The victim was taken to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport with life-threatening injuries.
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
American Stasi Dept.
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Personally, I can’t argue with her, because she is quite correct:
More at the link.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A reliable source of news? If you think that possilbe, then read this report by Chron.comn’s Gwen Howerton about how AI-managed “news” websites mangle reporting and fabricate facts can be less than accurate.
Red Scare Redux 0
PoliticalProf dissects how the Trump maladministration defines “communism.”
A Gut-Wrenching Question 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Lisa Jarvis wants to know, “Why do we need explosive diarrhea to remind us public health matters?”
Follow the link for her thoughts on the matter.
Dis Coarser Discourse 0
PoliticalProf finds himself distressed? taken aback? saddened by news medias’ role in the normalization of nasty.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Psychopathic? Anita Chabria argues that it well may be. Here’s how she opens her article:
Repeated law-breaking. Lying and deceit. Reckless disregard for safety. Lack of remorse.
Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.
Unfortunately, it’s also increasingly clear that these are the traits that define the most powerful artificial intelligence models being developed at alarming speed by for-profit corporations – corporations that would like us to believe that slowing down this roll toward AI dominance is somewhere between impossible and foolhardy.
American Stasi 0
Rebecca Watson offers a theory as to the targets of ICE’s recruiting process.
Or you can read the transcript.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” finds politeness in the parking lot.
Republican Thought Police 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt takes a deep dive into the Trump maladministration’s attempt to force ABC to toe their line.
The Art of the Deal 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz has a few thoughts about Trump’s deal with the Saudis. A snippet (emphasis added):
His entire article is worth your while.
The Patriot Gamer, Republican Family Values Dept. 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay is appalled at how Donald Trump managed to minimize the sacrifice of American soldiers–and the loss to their families–who have died in the war that he chose to start with Iran.