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“An Armed Society If a Polite Society” 0
And, as we know, a polite society is a clean society.
A child was injured in an accidental shooting Sunday evening in Fort Worth, according to police.
(snip)
According to police, the family told investigators a family member was cleaning the gun when it misfired. The child was hit by a ricocheted bullet, police say.
Aside:
Whoever wrote this story needs to look up “misfire.” It doesn’t mean what the writer seems to think it means, just as “accidental” is not just another word for “negligent.”
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron argues that Stephen Miller is upset because there’s no there there.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Now, I’m starting to hear a rhyme, and it sounds something sort of like, I can’t quite make it out, it’s a little distorted, maybe “Tempt Fate“?
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Simple-minded? It’s starting to look like it.
John Nosta points out that (emphasis added)
- An Apple study finds AI reasoning collapses as task complexity increases.
- LLMs often simulate logic without truly understanding it.
- Fluency isn’t thought, and while AI may sound smart, it can fail where it matters most.
Follow the link for a detailed exploration of each point he points out.
All the News that Fits 0
John Amato reports on a Trumpled truth-teller.
QOTD 0
James Noble, in the voice of Governor Eugene Xavier Gatling, and Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:
Eugene: I don’t have the qualifications to be President.
Benson: Never stopped anybody before.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom wonders, “How did the land of Lincoln and Roosevelt, of Eisenhower and Kennedy, become a playground for billionaire sociopaths?”
Listen for his answer.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladministration has taken off its mask–or, perhaps more accurately, put on its hood.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Properly secured? Not according to security expert Bruce Schneier.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
Wearing a mask to protect your health and slow the spread of a pandemic is not the same thing as wearing a mask to hide your identity while violating persons’ Constitutional rights, regardless of what some pipsqueak pol who’s in way over his head might say.
Vaccine Nation 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Richard Pan looks at RFK Jr.’s record at HHS and concludes that it–er–does not inspire confidence.