Culture Warriors category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.
Courting Disaster 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s attack on an impartial federal judiciary and the impllications thereof.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Ring of Fire looks at some of the latest racist and bigoted antics out of Florida.
Establishmentarians 0
Methinks the editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun makes some good points in advocating that establishmentarians who want to use the government to conduct their inquisitions should pay to play.
Me, I’m a disestablishmentarian. I believe that established churches should be disestablished.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, discusses the Trump maladministration’s campaign against brown people immigrants.
Republican Family Values 0
Per an article by Mario Nicolais at The Colorado Sun, it would appear that lying about one’s family is a Republican family value.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.
They’re Making a List and Checking it Twice . . . 0
. . . because they disapprove of how you’re living your life.
The EFF reports:
That’s what’s happening in Vero Beach, FL, where the Florida Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed a local restaurant, The Kilted Mermaid, demanding surveillance video, guest lists, reservation logs, and contracts of performers and other staff—all because the venue hosted an LGBTQ+ Pride event.
Details at the link.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
The Trump maladministration has rewritten Lady Liberty’s poem.
It now reads
- “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
And I will charge them a fee.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Austin Statesman, Hannah Strong hears a rhyme echoing across the sea from eight decades ago. She refers to the movie The Zone of Interest, which IMDB describes as
and asks
I commend her article to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . have never been anything other than a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal signifying not much of anything but a talking point.
Republican Thought Police 0
El Reg reports that the Republican thought police are now trying to ban “woke” AI*. Here are a couple of snippets (emphasis added); follow the link to put them in context.
(snip)
“In the LLM world, attempts to ‘un-wokeify’ LLMs have literally produced an AI that named itself MechaHitler,” he said. “This isn’t just a problem in how LLMs are constructed – it’s actually a problem in how humans have constructed ‘truth’ and ideology, and it’s not one that AI is going to fix.”
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*That is, AI that doesn’t reflect and perpetuate their racism, bigotry, and prejudices.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
The Republican Thought Police Are on Patrol . . . 0
. . . and taking historical fact into custody.
After all, why tell truthful history when you can pretend that your country never did those things that it did?
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.