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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness while playing with his portable phallus.
So many guns.
So much stupid.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Zuckerborg is planning to add your AI chats to its assimilation algorithm.
Pamela B. Rutledge has more at the link.
Which lead to the question, are you using AI or is it using you?
QOTD 0
Thomas Jefferson:
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
I wonder what he would have said about “social” media?
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom runs the numbers.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is not scripture. Rather, it’s a Republican family value.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A digital gaslighter? At Psychology Today Blogs, Koustuv Saha notes that (emphasis added)
But as emotional reliance deepens, many gradually withdraw from real-world and in-person human contact. Over weeks and months, users can feel heightened loneliness and decreased engagement in the physical world. The comfort that once felt supportive can quietly transform into dependence.
Follow the link for context.
Election Day 0
We shall be going to the polls in a little while.
As my father taught me through example, voting is not a right. It’s a duty.
And I am certain that, if more persons had done their duty a year ago, the country would not be facing the dangers it faces today.
QOTD 0
Edmund Crispin, in the voice of Gervase Fen:
Never forget that political zealots are people who are over-indulging their emotional need of hatred.
“Those Who Cannot Remember the Past . . . .”* 0
My local rag published an excellent letter to the editor from Robin C. Comfort regarding the actions of the Trump maladministration. In the midst of it, almost in passing, the writer poses a question which I find quite germane:
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The Disinformation Superhighway Meets
Still Rising Again after All These Years
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SFGate’s Drew Magary tried Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, a would-be competitor for Wikipedia.
Facebook Frolics 0
Retired police officer gets thrown in jail for posting a meme on the Zuckerborg.
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.
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.