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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Intellectually enhancing? If you buy that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn that’s for sale.
Vaccine Nation on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
In an article at AL.com, Nicole K. Reh, who is on the path to earning a medical degree, writes about how “social” media is endangering persons’ health; she focuses on the recent measles outbreaks and the anti-VAXX lies that have fueled them.
One interesting frightening statistic that she cites particularly caught my eye:
The entire piece is worth a read, and, remember, “social” media isn’t.
A Notion of Immigrants Meets the Rule of Lawless 0
Shorter Steven Miller: Constitutional rights? We don’t care about no Constitutional rights.
An Ode to Greased Palms 0
- Everything is pay to play
In Donald Trump’s USA.
“The Response Generator” 0
Yastreblyansky parses the pattern in the president’s prattle.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to have decided that it would be a darned shame if members of our military had access to ideas that said maladministration wishes to suppress.
The Sword of Dummycles 0
It turns out that the Force wasn’t actually with him.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness gain becomes child’s play.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Mild language.)
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Gene Nichol lists four lessons learned from the thwarting of the recent attempt by North Carolina Republicans to steal the election of a justice of the N. C. State Supreme Court through bogus charges of voter fraud.
But it seems that the voter fraud fraudsters just won’t give up.
DOGE Bull and the Rule of Lawless 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Jim Jones explains why he is concerned how Elon Musk’s DOGE has been sweeping up data from federal agencies in violation of laws designed to protect the privacy of citizens’ day. Methinks he raises legitmate concerns. Here’s a couple of snippets from his piece:
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There is great concern that the targeting of migrants with the powerful master database could be a test run for using that system against U.S. citizens who oppose Trump policies.