Jingo Jangles 0
At the Psychology Today website, Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel wonder at what point national pride morphs into a form of what they refer to a national narcissism. Methinks it a timely and worthwhile read in these Trumpled times. Here’s a tiny bit:
But here’s the twist: Once the researchers disentangled the healthy form of national identification from the narcissistic one (by putting them both in the same analyses), they found that people who felt a genuine bond with their nation were actually less willing to conspire against fellow citizens. National narcissists, on the other hand, were the ones willing to wiretap and lie. In short, these types of social identity predicted the exact opposite pattern of results.
Tool Time 0
David discusses J. D. Vance’s (somewhat poorly received) attempt to use America’s military as props for his propaganda. (Warning: Very short promo about halfway through.)
Afterthought:
That the pforces did not seem to pfall for his pfiffel gives me a straw at which to grasp
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Capable of kidnapping your data? El Reg reports that (s)mooth AI criminal drives ‘first’ end-to-end agentic ransomware attack. (To put that another way, once it got the prompt, an AI bot ran a rensomeware scam from start to finish all on its ownsome.)
AI doesn’t stand for “ariticial intelligence.” It stands “amoral instrumentation.”
A Divider, Not a Uniter 0
In the Las Vegas Sun, Tom Harper points out that that has been the long-standing strategy of today’s Republican Party.
American Stasi 0
Starting with a video of an American WWII veteran, who says that he fought against concentration camps 80 years ago only to see them being established now in his own country, Rick Strom reviews a litany of abuses by the Trump maladministration’s hooded KKK secretive police.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As my old professor of the early fedeeral period was fond of pointing out, “History is irony.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Impartial? Only as impartial as the data they scrape train on.
At the Psychology Today website, Phil Reed reminds that “AI mirrors human cognitive biases, not just factual knowledge.” Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . meet a notion of immigrants.
A Tune for the Time 0
Warning: Short promo at about the one minute mark.
