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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Privatization Scam 0

PoliticalProf looks follows the money.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0

A teaching tool? If you want more fools.

At the Psychology Today website, Soren Kaplan discusses a study involving 26,000 students indicating that “(u)sing AI can create short-term results but may stifle long-term learning.”

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War and Mongers of War 0

Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses the Graham Cracker’s war mongering.

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The Disinformation Superhighway 0

Rat:  What are you doing, Pig?  Pig:  Writing a paper about the internet.  I'm supposed to explain why they call it the World Wide Web.  Rat:  Because it trapps you a spider's prey and ends what was once a healthy life.  Pig:  Of course.  Rat:  It's all right there in the name.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Once again, politeness becomes child’s play.

So many guns. So much stupid.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

At Above the Law, Joe Patrice that todays Supreme Supremacist Court has openly exchanged its robes black robes for white (my phrasing, not his).

No summary or excerpt can do his piece justice (just like today’s Supreme Supremacist Court can’t seem to do justic–oh, never mind). Just go read it.

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QOTD 0

Horace Greeley:

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Thought Police 0

At the Austin American-Statesman, James Kallison is distressed at efforts in Texas to replace public education with public indoctrination, observing that

Whether the issue is slavery, LGBTQ history, or the role of religion in public education, the state’s responsibility is to ensure students learn history as accurately and completely as possible — not as political leaders wish it had been.

I commend his article to your attention, as Texas is not alone in wanting to use public funds to promote public ignorance.

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The Blame Gamer 0

Robert Reich sees a pattern:

One remarkable aspect of Trump’s horrendous reign is how many crises and problems he’s brought on himself – created them out of thin air. Then he brags about how well he’s handled them. And when they go wrong – as they inevitably do – he casts blame on others or on his political opponents.

Follow the link for examples.

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The Feckless Driver 0

PoliticalProf.

Speaking of idiocracy . . . .

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This New Gilded Age 0

Retaurant table piled high with food.  On the floor next to it, a child dressed in rags eats a hot dog.  An arm labeled

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The Rule of Lawless 0

At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf analyzes claims that vandals have attacked the Reflecting Pool and concludes

Only one person vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: Donald J. Trump. He vandalized it by circumventing the correct legal process for major federal projects like this

And what else would you expect? Trump thinks he is going to be remembered as a builder in Washington, but he is going to be remembered as the city’s vandal in chief..

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American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0

Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:

As the federal government sought more bed space, the private detention system grew faster, especially in the Texas desert where Scripps News discovered an unmarked plane offloading handcuffed immigrants at the El Paso airport. Some of the detainees were still wearing their work shirts.

ICE was bringing them to Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention center. An obscure company called Acquisition Logistics LLC won a $1.2 billion no-bid contract to stand up the soft-sided facilities designed to house thousands of migrants.

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QOTD 0

Lee Iacocca:

We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, “Stay the course.” Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Impartial and unbiased? Just as impartial and unbiased as the internet it scrapes to fill its database: As Phil Reed warns us at the Psychology Today website, “AI in healthcare amplifies existing gender and cultural stereotypes, worsening inequality.”

Follow the link for his evidence.

(Slightly edited for clarity.)

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America’s Most Wanted 0

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance looking at television footage of a duck swimming in the Reflecting Pool.  Vance says,

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PoliticalProf has more.

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Lobster Potty 0

We are truly living under an idiocracy.

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