Republican Strategy Revealed 0
If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.
Prying Eyes 0
The EFF’s Thorin Klosowski takes a deep look at how Big Tech is becoming a surveillance industry. Here’s how their ar; follow the link for the rest.
Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes your day. Amazon’s Bee devices take that a step further and can record and transcribe everything. Dozens of other companies are introducing pendants, rings, and other products designed to record, transcribe, or summarize everything we say and do all day long.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom enumerates the many parallels between the old Secesh of 1861 and the new Secesh of today’s Republican Party.
American Stasi 0
Yet another law-abiding person on his way to his job is arrested sent to an ICE concentration camp detention center for being brown.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Accountable? At the Psychology Today website, Tara Well reminds that a “friend or therapist has to live with the consequences of their advice; a chatbot doesn’t.”
This New Gilded Age 0
A Monopoly Man wants to maroon Mackinac Island residents unless he gets to raise ferry fares because he owns all the ferries.
Freedom of Screech 0
Kimball Shinkoskey decodes de code.
This New Gilded Age 0
Aside:
Money may not be able to buy everything–thank heavens it didn’t this time–but it sure as heck can skew the game.
Thanks to the Supreme Supremacist Court and Citizens Benighted, which helped pave the way for this new gilded age.
American Stasi, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
Farron discusses a Washington Post report that ICE’s hiring practices may be–er–questionable.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A tool for troublemakers? Oregon’s KATU reports that
Courting Disaster 0
A Federal judge calls out a “Justice” Department lawyer for bearing false witness.
We no longer have an executive branch that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. It is now of the Trump, by the Trump, and for the Trump.
The Diagnosis 0
My money’s on NPD. What do you think?
White Flight 0
Jesse Watters seems distressed that, in the midterms, Republicans seem to have lost what Watters refers to as the “white vote.”
Sam and the crew find this to be–er–a tell.
As I’ve mentioned before in these electrons, Richard Nixon’s southern strategy came full circle and consumed the Republican Party, which is today little more than the party of the New Secesh.
And Watters as much as openly admits that.