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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? 0
A false idol? Sacrifices welcome.
Joe Pierre points out that “(f)or some, deifying AI chatbots as a god-like form of super-intelligence can lead to psychosis.” A snippet:
While of the topic of dubious digital deities, check out the discussion about AI on this week’s episode of Le Show. It starts at about the 36-minunte mark.
Devolution 0
Dwight Eisenhower was president when I was a young ‘un. He was good and decent man.
Were he alive today, he would appalled, embarrassed beyond recognition even, to learn that his Republican Party has become the party of the Secesh.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, one of those “responsible gun owners” exposes a portable phallus to children.
Twits on Twitter X Offenders
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Someone told him how to get to Sesame Street:
Devolution 0
From the Youtube page:
Seth takes a closer look at Trump writing a 400-word Truth Social post about how nobody cares about Jeffrey Epstein, Republicans forcing through a heinous plan to kick millions off health insurance to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and Florida opening a gruesome detention center for migrants.
This New Gilded Age . . . 0
. . . in which moguls reside in their mansions, while their workers sleep in their cars.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. The desktop menu is active. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Masked Marauders 0
Grung_e_Gene rips off the mask, and what he sees ain’t pretty.
DOGE Bull 0
Sam and the crew talk with journalist Brandon Roberts about some of the havoc caused by DOGE and how AI was used to abet the destruction.
Suffer the Children 0
As we know, that’s not scripture. That’s Republican policy: Nathaniel Ross Kelly, who ran an orphanage in Sudan for five years, writes of the how the Trump maladministration’s decision to destroy USAID is likely to affect needy children arouond the world.