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.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
And again we are reminded that “accidental” and “negligent” are not synonyms.
Parsing the Playbook 0
From the Youtube page:
Thom talks with Democratic Senator of Oregon, Jeff Merkley, about his FREE article, Ring the Alarm Bells: The Ten Rules of Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook, and his experience at the U.S. Senate chamber outlining these corrupt and destructive tactics.
You can download Senator Merkley’s Ring the Alarm Bells.