“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner.”
Yet another portable phallus exposed to a child.
Yet another life ended too soon.
Yet another day in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
Republican Thought Police 0
North Carolina legislators just pushed through anti-DEI legislation over the governor’s veto. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Executive Director of Intergovernmental Relations Charles Jeter describes it as a “solution in search of a problem” and fears those problems. A snippet (emphasis added):
That gray area, he said, may hamstring educators or school districts.
“They give definitions, but the definitions in and of themselves are interpretable by different people,” Jeter told the Observer. “That’s the concern: it’s the unintended consequences.”
War and Mongers of War 0
Via The Japan Times, history professor Timothy Snyder looks at Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran and concludes:
This is what happens when voters entrust entertainers to wage war and profiteers to negotiate peace.
Follow the link for his reasons for saying that.
Vaccine Nation 0
Inaction has consequences. So does willful ignorance.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, again, politeness becomes child’s play.
Just another day in the NRA’s festival for firearm fetishists.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent couples counselor? Better have that divorce lawyeer’s number handy.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Robert Klarich, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, reports hearing a rhyme. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Driven to Destruction 0
A tale of AI, that is, autoficial intelligence.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Survivors of America’s World War II Japanese internment camps look at the Trump maladministration’s concentration camps detention centers and hear a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses Louisiana’s decision to bring back slave labor involuntary servitude.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.
America Stasi 0
Under the rule of law, adjudicate and retaliate do not rhyme.
Under the rule of flaw, it seems that they may.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Time of having “social” media decide what to hear about?
The EFF travels back into the past to recommend a way to escape tentacles of “social” media algorithms.