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Influencer Idiocy 0

Florida Man.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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American Stasi 0

ICE agent with a small bronw-skinned child in custory says,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Bubblelicious? Jonathan Wolf sure thinks so.

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The Strategy 0

Steve M. summarizes the sales pitch. A snippet; follow the link for context.

Trump isn’t just a guy with dementia and diminished impulse control shouting racist insults when he’s supposed to be talking about grocery prices. He’s a guy who’s long had an intuitive understanding of how to use scapegoating and bigotry to win over millions of voters. He knows that his people, at least, will fall for all these distractions, and many of them will conclude that he’s still a good president even if he’s not doing anything to make it easier to pay their bills, because he hates the people they hate.

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QOTD 0

Hugo Grotius:

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

An incubator of intellectual infantilism? At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta sounds a warning; follow the link for a detailed discussion of each point.

  • AI creates a suspended, passive state like Eliot’s “etherized upon a table.”
  • It offers fluency that feels like insight but leaves thought empty.
  • We risk surrendering judgment as ease may replace genuine understanding.

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Real Big Men 0

Michael in Norfolk offers his thoughts on why the Trump maladminstration and (many of) its supporters take such delight in mean for the sake of mean.

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“The Guy in the Glass House Is Throwing Stones Again” 0

Read the Politico article that David discusses.

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Russian Impulses 0

Caption:  Presidential Approval.  Frame One.  Man on phone reading document titled

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Beamed into a Beemer 0

Florida Man.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Celebrate Christmas with politeness.

New Hampshire police are asking for the public’s help identifying an armed Grinch who shot at several Christmas inflatables in a Bow neighborhood early Tuesday morning. . . . .

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QOTD 0

john Locke:

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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A Tune for the Times 0

(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)

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Short Attention Span Theatrics 0

Image One,

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Parks and Wreck 0

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A Notion of Immigrants 0

The Trump maladministration has found a new way to be mean for the sake of mean:

They are now denying naturalization ceremonies to immigrants who have qualified for and wish to obtain American citizenship.

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Sporadic Bloggery 0

Things to do.

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QOTD 0

Jason Hughes, in the vovice of DS Ben Jones:

The law, Mr. Perkins, is like the Bible. You can always find one quote to contradict another.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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