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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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It appears that, in reaction to Elon Musk’s antics, some Tesla owners are bumper-stickering it to him.
Ethics Schmethics 0
Farron discusses unsigns of the times.
Afterthought:
If you don’t have any, how can you sign for them?
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” shows his politeness to his friend.
The man who shot the gun told police he was trying to “dry fire at a 45-degree angle away from the victim and was unsure how the victim (ended) up getting shot and stated it was accidental,” the affidavit states. The man who was shot told police his friend “pointed the firearm downward to show him the gun, when the gun was discharged.”
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.
Field Work 0
Can you think of someone who might be a suitable subject for testing the validity of this theory?
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Writing at the Portland Press-Herald, Lincoln Paine voices his fear that the election of Donald Trump may signal the death knell of American democracy (and, frankly, I doubt he’s alone in that fear). And he points a finger:
But the people who lost our democracy are the Republican leadership, starting with Mitch McConnell.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Thom looks at why the middle class is dwindling.
Foxy Shady 0
(Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Afterthought:
- But they all look alike.
Said the racists.
I know.
I’m a Southern boy who grew up under Jim Crow and was there when schools were desegregated.
I heard–and still hear–the racists say it, if not explicitly, then implicitly (see above).
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to poison our polity and empower those who would do evil.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Fomenting the phony. Well, maybe just a bit. From El Reg:
This trend suggests that many self-proclaimed thought leaders on LinkedIn may be presenting AI-generated content as their own profound insights.
Much more at the link.
Aside:
Speaking of the land of the me-me-me . . . .
Republican Family Values 0
Methinks persons could be excused for concluding that a primary Republican family value is mean for the sake of mean.
OH! And speaking of Republican family values, Idaho State Senator Melissa Wintrow has a question.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, politeness goes for the dogs.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
The dialog, at about the 24 minute mark: You’ve got to ‘elp us, Ken.
The closed caption: You got elbows, Ken.
The words: They fail me.
About five minutes later:
The dialog, as Ken calls the name of another character: Rocky! Rocky!
The closed caption: Rookie! Rookie!
Afterthought:
Just because Big Tech calls it “intelligence” doesn’t make it so.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
John Mannarino:
When we live in a nation transformed from the “land of the free and the home of the brave” to the “land of the me and home of the knave,” it is easier to understand how Donald Trump got reelected.
Letter to the Editor, The Virginian Pilot, November 29, 2024, p. 15
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Mike Barrett is not Harding of hearing.
He hears a Republican rhyming from slightly over a century ago.
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*Mark Twain.