A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
You know I’ve been around a long time, but I have never lived through what we are living through now. The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope you’ll sing it when you are marching. Because sometimes people, sometimes you just gotta SING OUT!
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A siren’s calling us to simple-mindedness? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that AI doesn’t replace thinking. It replaces the feeling that thinking is necessary in the first place.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Things to do.
The Blame Game 0
Mary Trump discusses who is the actual enemy within.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another of those “responsible gun owners” practices politeness on the pavement.
The Crypto Con 0
Alabama State Representative Ben Harrison warns that they are coming for the banks next.
If Charles Ponzi were still with us, he would bow in awe and admiration to the Crypto Bros for taking his legacy to unimagined heights.
Vaccine Nation 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, the New York Times editorial board thinks that, under RFK Jr., the prognosis for infectious diseases bright–for the diseases, that is.
Not so much for people.
A snippet (emphasis added):
QOTD 0
Daisaku Ikeda:
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
And, I would add, not to do so betrays that hopw.
The Art of the Con, Misdirection Play Dept. 0
The Trump maladministration now claims that, because a half-baked assassination attempt against Trump was thwarted at the Washington Hilton, Trump should therefore be permitted to proceed with further defiling the East Wing of the White House.
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino marvels at the misdirection play.