“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
Guns 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.
TDS 0
Joe Conason thinks the conventional definition of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is lacking. He suggests a different one:
Methinks he makes a valid point. Follow the link for his reasoning.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently this Republican believes that teachers must be spied upon so as to ensure that do not waver from his party’s line,
Aside:
As far as I can tell, “woke” is Republican newspeak for “not racist and not bigoted.”
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the price, it is being paid.
Heat-related illness is on the rise across the United States. Yale School of Public Health researchers found that heat-related deaths increased by more than 50% between 2000 and 2020.
Scary stuff at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness, leaving his friend with a bullet fragment lodged behind his eye in such a way that removal may not be possible.
According to Trujillo, a man pulled out a gun and began shooting toward the ground near a horse.
These overgrown boys need to stop treating instruments of death as if they were toys.
“Show Us Your Papers Please” 0
Thom talks with Greg Palast about strategies Republicans may be intending to use to gut out the vote.
(There seemed to be some audio gliches when I watched the video, so I recommend turning on the closed captions.)
Big Brother Tech Is Watching You
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I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Big Tech often doesn’t think things through. AI may be the most extreme example so far, but the recklessness (fecklessness?) is hardly unprecedented. From the Portland Oregonian:
The woman’s former boyfriend, the suit says, used the tracker to monitor her daily movements without her knowledge. Medford police have charged him with stalking using a GPS device, according to the suit. He is also not named in the suit.
(snip)
According to the Medford woman’s lawsuit, Apple’s internal data showed the company received more than 40,000 stalking reports from 2021 to 2024 involving its tracking device but failed to adopt adequate safeguards to protect victims.
If the Truth Hurts, Hurt the Truth 0
The Trump maladministration once again exercises its freedom of repress.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Miami Herald, Mireille Rebeiz hears a rhyme in Donald Trump’s obsession with marking his territory like my old dog Beau spreading his taint renaming stuff.
Here’s a quatrain from the sonnet:
Sadly, history is rife with examples of dictators and fascists renaming things to glorify themselves, with dangerous consequences.
Follow the link for the–er–rather disturbing but quite a propos examples.
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*Mark Twain.
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:
Emoluments 0
It appears that Donald Trump may be presidenting for profit.