May, 2024 archive
Numbers Gamers 0
Kyle Mantyla runs the Establishmentarians’ numbers and finds that they just don’t add up.
Fly the Fiendly Skies . . . 0
. . . where movies come to life.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler recounts some Facebook Frolics with Meta’s AI chatbot.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Mangy Fetlocks never ceases to be amazed at the depths to which Republican politicians will go to curry favor with a twice-impeached, pussy- grabbing multiply-indicted failed ex-president. For a party ostensibly waving the flag of “real men”, “honor”, “independence” and “patriotism”, they seem to display NONE of those traits.
Courting Disaster 0
Writing at the Charlotte Observer, law professor Gene Nichol is less than sanguine about the actions of our current Supreme Supremacist Court.
The Louse Always Wins 0
Sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro runs the numbers:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just a little passing case of politeness.
Recommended Viewing 0
I liked it when it was new, the few times I got to see it when I was a young ‘un, and I like it now that it is old (as am I). It was easily one of the best noir series of early American television.
I’m watching it on Tubi.
Aside:
Noir has not gone away. We are living it today.