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Signal Achievements, Reprise 0
Security expert Bruce Schneier takes a deep dive in signalgate and its implications. In the light of recent events, the whole thing is worth a read. Here’s a tiny little bit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness again becomes child’s play.
We are a society gone insane from lead poisoning of our own doing.
“Vengeance Is Mine” 0
At the Sacramento Bee, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at Donald Trump’s quest for retribution from law firms that have incurred his wrath. A snippet:
This is the playbook of a dictator, not a president in a democracy under the rule of law.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
“Thinning the Herd” 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is less than sanguine about RFK Jr.’s stewardship sewership of the Department of Health and Human Services. A snippet:
But that was way back in … 2024.
The plan now seems to involve thinning the herd.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Muskrat Love 0
A quote:
This is authoritarianism hiding behind an American flag.
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Via Der Spiegel, a very sad story that illustrates why maybe, just maybe, AI robots should talk like robots, as Bruce Schneir recently suggested.
Suffer the Children 0
Again, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to deploy his portable phallus whilst plying the pavement.
Republican Thought Police 0
In the midst of a longer article about the right-wing propaganda machine, Yastreblyansky makes the following observation, which methinks is right on the mark:
Recommended Viewing 0
If you can find them, these two episodes of Family Ties:
All in the Neighborhood: Part 1
All in the Neighborhood: Part 2
They are 35 years old and still quite timely.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
From mass deportations, to mass firings to the crippling of our social support institutions, in two short months we have changed into something unrecognizable; Something we could accurately call “The Broken Promise Land.”
DOGE Bull 0
Farron reports that the chaos caused by Elon Musk’s DOGE at the National Institutes of Health in endangering persons’ health and lives.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
He had a pocketful of politeness.
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they’re not even trying to pretend about it any more.
Republican Family Values 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy makes a compelling case that a particular Idaho legislator is, well, just plain nutz.