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This New Gilded Age 0
It would seem that I am not alone in thinking that’s where we are today.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not only value party over country.
It values party over competence.
Geeking Out 0
Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. Firefox and KeepassXC are shaded. Xclock is in the upper right; GKrellM is in the lower right. The wallpaper is from my collection.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Potentially hazardous? Follow the evidence.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Tahir Rahman discusses how AI “chatbot interactions can reinforce harmful ideologies or worsen mental health issues.”
Follow the link to follow the evidence.
Post Mortem 0
Cliff Schecter wonders why it can happen (is happening?) here. (Warning: Mild language.)
The Tales They Tell 0
To answer Curtis’s question, darn straight they do.
I went to all-white school under Jim Crow.*
They told us a lot of lies and even more half-truths about life in the old South.
And the lies live on.
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*At least, it was all-white until I think it was the tenth grade when one I’m sure very carefully chosen black girl joined the senior class; the next year, a few more black students joined the junior and senior classes, and so on.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Apparently, he just couldn’t resist the temptation to shoot down Walmart’s delivery drone.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
Yet more evidence that the fabled “responsible gun owner” is a mythical creature.
Normalization Nation 0
Methinks the Rude One makes some good points.
Aside:
I gave up on television news, whether broadcast or cable, a long time ago. (Except if there’s a snow storm, and, as the climates they are a-changing, it’s been several years since we had even a little one of those.)