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A Legend in His Own Mind 0

Title:  Opera Buffa Presents Cosi fan Trumpy--the Tragicomedy that's bringing down the house at the Kennedy Center.  Image:  Donald Trump dressed as a Valkyrie sings,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A competent medical advisor? At the Psychology Today website, Nick Tiller says it’s heading for a quack up.

Here’s a snippet from his article:

On the one hand, OpenAI qualifies the rollout by saying it’s not for diagnosis or treatment and is “not designed to replace the care and judgment of qualified medical professionals.” On the other hand, that’s exactly what the public will use it for, and OpenAI knows it.

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Emoluments 0

It appears that Donald Trump may be presidenting for profit.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Enforcer frolics.

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QOTD 0

Arthur Schopenhauer:

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to a child.

The incident happened on Monday at about 2:25 p.m. in the 3500-block of South Wallace Street outside Minnie Miñoso Academy.

Chicago police said Dixon left a bag unattended on a school bus with a gun inside.

A 12-year-old boy then found the gun and fired it. The shot left behind a bullet hole through the bus window.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Baiting and switching? El Reg reports:

There’s a new kind of agent coming to ChatGPT ads, and this one wants your money. OpenAI has begun testing Sponsored Agents, advertiser-backed bots that try to sell you things as part of a custom conversation.

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American Stasi 0

AL.com’s John Archibald tells another family’s story. An excerpt:

Last week Roberto and Lola – Roberto Avalos Magallon and Dolores Mendoza Cerda – were detained by ICE at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport while returning from a family reunion in California. The married couple from Mexico had no criminal history, never entered the U.S. illegally and were working through the system to remain in America’s good graces, according to their attorneys. Still they were whisked away to detention in Pickens County, then to separate ICE facilities in Louisiana.

Leaving those grandchildren, scarred by heartache, to wonder again what would become of them, and the people they love.

Again we are reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.

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Who’s Macklemore? 0

Inquiring minds want to know. Emma explains it to Sam.

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“Barefoot and Pregnant” 0

At the Des Moines Register, Rehka Basu looks at recent remarks by J. D. Vance about the role of women in families and decodes de code.

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Stray Thought 0

One of the distressing things about dis coarse discourse is that one our political parties, even members of it that have sworn an oath of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution, seems to have forsaken loyalty to the country for loyalty to the Clown Prince of Hot Air.

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QOTD 0

Art Middleton:

There’s nothing glorious about combat. I’ve been there and done that.

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And Now for a Change of Pace 0

Louis Armstrong performs La Vie en Rose.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Get out of Jail free cardAnother oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” with another improperly stored exposed portable phallus.

Another dead toddler.

Another example that “accidental” can be a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for the negligent.

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Republican Thought Police 0

A U. S. District Court Judge has ruled that (gasp!) that it’s within the bounds of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech to criticize the American Stasi. Here’s a bit from the report; much more at the link.

“Streever has a right to express his political views through non-threatening speech, however degrading the speech might be,” (Judge Rudolph–ed.) Contreras said.

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The Surveillance Industry 0

One more time, there’s a reason that they are called “pervert glasses.”

Imagine. Persons used to fret about the possiblity of a “surveillance state.”

How quaint.

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Vaccine Nation 0

Sam and Emma discuss the Florida Surgeon-General’s plan to eliminate vaccine mandates in the face of rising disease, not to mention 200 years of history showing that vaccines work.

We are a society of stupid.

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Scylla and Charybdis 0

(Couple walking)  Man says,

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The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0

. . . and the Trump maladministration seems to thinks that global warming is really cool.

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