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The Process of Elimination (Updated) 0
Sherlock Holmes once said, “When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Via The Kansas City Star, Elizabeth Shackelford attempts to use that statement to make sense of Donald Trump’s foreign you-can-hardly-call-them-without-laughing policies.
Addendum:
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, Mo Brooks argues that, as discordant as it sounds, “Trump” rhymes with “Nixon” in many ways.
Follow the link for his parsing of the poesy.
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*Mark Twain.
A Passing Remark 0
For some fool reason, my neighbor said to me just the other day, “It only took Hitler 53 days.”
Twice.
Whyever might my neighbor have made such a remark?
Inquiring minds want to know.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More “responsible gun owners” feel compelled to discharge their portable phalluses on the road.
(snip)
The 12-year-old boy, who was riding in the back seat of the SUV, had been shot in the hip. Police noticed what appeared to be several bullet holes in the rear driver’s side door of the SUV.
We are a broken society.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Mendacious? Well, they’re just bots. They do what they’re told.
From El Reg:
What they found is that AI models will often lie in order to achieve the goals set for them.
QOTD 0
Gerard Heinz, in the voice of Hortal:
Aside:
He left out the part about sending them to El Salvadoran gulags.
Republican Thought Police 0
If the truth hurts, well, just tell truth to take a hike.
Trumponomics 0
Farron looks at how Donald Trump’s economic “policies” are destroying American jobs.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but If Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Ralph Fernandez writes of hearing a rhyme from not so long ago and not so far away.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of scuttling a legitimate research project because, though the intelligence may be artificial, the stupid is real?
Devolution 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Ira Israel finds what he refers to as “fabricated self-importance” to be of some concern. A snippet:
I commend his piece to your attention.
As an aside, I think “social” media feeds this phenomenon by rewarding persons for boasting and for boosting fabricated–I use that term advisedly–versions of themselves. But read his article and see what you think.
(Broken link fixed.)