“Am I a Party Guest or a Backdrop?” 0
Just in case you needed more evidence that “social” media isn’t.
Mongers of Hate, Misdirection Play Dept. 0
Thom discusses the normalization of political violence and what may be behind it and offers some possible solutions.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another child . . . .
The report says it’s being investigated as an accident. Why isn’t it being investigated as negligence? you might ask.
Because calling it an accident lets the person responsible off the hook. That’s why.
The Supreme Supremacist Court
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At Above the Law, Joe Patrice delves into the duplicity disguising the discriminatory decisions.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Pandora’s box? Hear from someone who dtook a peek.
Aside:
The danger of AI isn’t the “artificial intelligence” (sic) computer programs per se.
It’s human gullibility.
It’s something I’ve marveled at since I first started visiting BBSs (remember BBSs?).
It’s that persons will believe stuff that they see (and now that they hear) on a computer when they wouldn’t believe if it happened before their eyes.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Several U.S. states are passing laws to incorporate the Bible into public schools, focusing on teaching it as “historical or literature content” rather than doctrine. Key initiatives include Utah requiring Bible instruction in grades 3-12, Oklahoma directing its inclusion in curriculum, and Louisiana mandating the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
Establishmentarians 0
When Jesus said, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” I somehow don’t think that this is quite what He had in mind.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jamelle Bouie offers a theory as to who is most responsible for making dis coarse discourse so much coarser. He notes that
Fantasies of violence against political enemies are, in fact, a defining feature of Trump’s political language.
Methinks he has a point. Follow the link for his evidence.
A Real Estate Development 0
Farron discusses the Trump maladministration’s farcical legal action against the National Trust for Historic Preservation for having the unmitigated gall to take issue with his wanton destruction of public property, i. e., the East Wing of the White House.
Read the news report that Farron references.
Follymarket 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier expresses some conerns about Polymarket.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Anti-intelligent? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta argues that that is an appropriate term for AI. Follow the link for his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More neighborly politeness:
And again, one must needs note that “accidentally” and “negligently” are not synonyms.
QOTD 0
Douglas William Jerrold:
God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Man said, ‘Let us make God in our image.”
The Crypto Con 0
From the Youtube page:
A story broke this weekend which exposed that the founder and leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage, had been gifted £5 million by a Thai cryptocurrency billionaire shortly before announcing his intention to stand for election. It is another example of how while claiming to be a man of the people – Farage is actually raking it in, and beholden to the super-rich and exploiting their resource and control of media to make a bid for power and policies that will benefit them. On Sunday he withdrew from a BBC interview at the last minute, hoping that avoiding questions (before Thursday’s local elections across the UK) will allow him to benefit from voters’ anger at the failings of the main two parties.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
The Rude One argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has traded in their robes of black for the gray.
(Warning: Rudeness.)
Merchants of Death 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s recent actions that make it easier for nutbags to buy guns.