From Pine View Farm

Here We Go Round the Merry-Go-Round 0

Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz has pretty much nailed it.

Share

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A co-conspirator? Per ABC News,

Online resellers using AI to pretend to be mom-and-pop stores

Afterthought:

I recently bought a new cell phone, because my old one, after many years of faithful service, had reached EOL. Its battery was no longer holding a charge. It was a damned fine phone, but stuff does wear out.

The new one will not stop nagging me to use its AI bot, and I can’t make the nagbot go away.

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I prefer real intelligence to the artificial fake.

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

There’s nothing like a little brotherly politeness.

Share

QOTD 0

Dick Cavett:

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Share

A Tune for the Times 0

Share

The Mission Statement 0

Sign reading

Click for the original image.

Share

Indoctrination Nation, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0

If you don’t like historical fact, why, just teach students historical fiction.

Share

Establishmentarians 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers reads the honor roll.

Share

American Stasi 0

Truth, justice, and the American way have nothing to do with it.

They have a quota to fill.

Share

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A learning aid? Not when it “thinks” for you: At the Psychology Today website, Joe Pierre reports (emphasis added) that “(s)everal studies suggest that while using AI can help get work done faster, longer-term learning is impaired.”

Share

Droning On 0

Florida man redefines DWI.

Share

QOTD 0

Madame de Stael:

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Share

A Tune for the Times 0

Share

The Supreme Supremacist Court, Reprise 0

Man wwearing judicial robes and a white Klan hood labeled

Via Job’s Anger.

Share

“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

At AL.com, John Archibald hears a rhyme from a long ago time. Here’s how he opens his article:

The words of the notorious John B. Knox come to mind.

“And what is it that we do want to do?” he asked. “Why, it is, within the limits imposed by the Federal Constitution, to establish white supremacy in this State.”

It was May of 1901, 125 years ago this month if it sounds like yesterday . . . .

_________________

*Mark Twain.

Share

Vaccine Nation 0

The Republican thought police are now coming for scientific research about vaccines.

We are a society of stupid.

Share

Ever Feel like You’re Living Inside a TV Show?
Maybe You Are.
0

Man and woman watching televison.  Woman asks,

Click for the original image.

Share

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Two “responsible gun owners” are driven to politeness.

The report details a chaotic sequence of events in which both vehicles veered into oncoming traffic lanes and off the roadway while trying to evade or confront one another.

Authorities say the situation ended when the pickup truck rear-ended Henderson’s vehicle near an intersection.

Witnesses told deputies they saw a driver waving a gun out of a window and both vehicles driving recklessly, putting others on the road at risk.

Musical NotesGuns 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.

Share

Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Are its hallucinations a threat to the rule of law? At Above the Law, Stephen Embry argues that, “hen the public hears lawyers citing cases and laws that don’t exist, they conclude the whole system is a sham.”

Share

QOTD 0

Lysander Spooner:

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

Share
From Pine View Farm
Privacy Policy

This website does not track you.

It contains no private information. It does not drop persistent cookies, does not collect data other than incoming ip addresses and page views (the internet is a public place), and certainly does not collect and sell your information to others.

Some sites that I link to may try to track you, but that's between you and them, not you and me.

I do collect statistics, but I use a simple stand-alone Wordpress plugin, not third-party services such as Google Analitics over which I have no control.

Finally, this is website is a hobby. It's a hobby in which I am deeply invested, about which I care deeply, and which has enabled me to learn a lot about computers and computing, but it is still ultimately an avocation, not a vocation; it is certainly not a money-making enterprise (unless you click the "Donate" button--go ahead, you can be the first!).

I appreciate your visiting this site, and I desire not to violate your trust.