Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Going rogue? Security maven Bruce Schneier argues that the genie is out of the bottle.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “reponsible gun owner” displays courtesy on the concrete.
Ignorance Is Bliss 0
At least, that appears to be a tenet of the Trump maladministration. Via the Las Vegas Sun, Michael Hiltzik catalogs the casualties in Donald Trump’s war on science. A snippet:
Referring to a list of grant terminations announced in October 2025, the agency admitted that it terminated or canceled 283 grants “solely” based on whether their recipients were in states that had cast its electoral college votes for Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and had two Democratic senators. Meanwhile, 340 other grants from states that voted for Trump were left in place.
The Me Veneration on the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At the Psychology Today website, Steven Stosny explores how the Disinformation Superhighway and particularly “social” media feed the me veneration. In this age when persons think that posts by randos on “social” media are somehow legitimate news reportage, methinks his piece a worthwhile read.
Here’s a tiny bit:
The Fix Is In(cubating) 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s efforts to fix (or at least undermine) the 2026 elections and offers some suggestions as to what we can do to combat them.
The Spoiled of War 0
Rex Huppke channels an oil executive’s thoughts about Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran in this New Gilded Age.
A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another child is hospitalized after yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes his portable phallus to said child.
We are a society of stupid.
Immunity Impunity
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Los Angeles decides to shoot prosecute the messenger.
The Crypto Con 0
Via The Japan Times, Bloomberg’s Andy Mukherjee is less than sanguine about nations relying on crypto, as seems to be a trend. A snippet:
Devolution 0
I never expected that my country would become a rogue state.
But it looks like it’s well on the way to being one.
Suffer the Children 0
As has been well established, that’s a Republican family value. Here, Emma talks with Katie Bergh about the damage that the Trump maladministration’s cuts to SNAP food benefits have done to families and children.