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Occupation Nation 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Daniel Oppenheimer offers some thoughts as to how to respond if when Donald Trump orders the National Guard to invade your city.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Trudy Rubin hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s efforts to silence his critics. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Escalation 0
From the Youtube page:
Seth takes a closer look at MAGA Republicans and Fox News hosts speculating that there was a nefarious conspiracy to stop Trump’s escalator at the United Nations.
The Privatization Scam 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus voices his opposition to a bill designed to use public money under the guise of “tax credits” to support private schools. In the course of it, almost as an aside, he makes this observation. Methinks it an important point often overlooked in dis coarse discourse:
Private schools are there for private purposes, not public ones.
Stray Thought 0
The raison d’etre of a “Customer Service Department” in today’s business world is to ensure that there is a space between the “Customer” and the “Service.”
Recommended Listening 0
Bob Cesca’s interview with Hal Sparks.
Hal spends a lot of time in the darker corners of the inner webs and sheds a lot of light on how things work there. See the description at the link for more. (Warning: Hal tends to talk a blue streak, and I do mean blue.)
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Too good to be true? According to Faisal Hoque at Psychology Today Blogs, “. . . it probably is.”
Follow the link for his reasons.
Afterthought:
Remember, AI does not create. It regurgitates.
Devolution 0
Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.
The Medicine Show 0
David discusses the junk science behind the claim that there is a relationship between Tylenol and autism and offers a theory as to why the Trump maladministration is weaponizimg autism.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Dan Cashman, who once hosted a late night talk show, is not sanguine. A snippet: