Recommended Listening 0
Kimberley A. Johnson’s interview with the Knitting Cult Lady. From the description:
Born into the Children of God cult and trafficked as a child, Daniela escaped to the U.S. at 15, put herself through school to become a U.S. Army intelligence officer who deployed twice to Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division, and now studies Organizational Psychology at Harvard Extension School, researching group behavior, extremism, leadership demagoguery, and cults.
Methinks it sheds some light on dis coarse discourse, as one our two major political parties seems to have turned into a cult of poisonality.
(Yeah, I know the release date was a month ago. I’m behind on my podcasts.)
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A partner in crime? Bruce Schneier reports that hackers are salivating over putting AI to work for themselves.
Establishmentarians 0
LZ Granderson has a couple of questions for persons who would use public schools–and therefore public moneys–to proselytize:
And why place public school teachers, many of whom are not Christians themselves, in a position in which they may have to explain that religion’s doctrine?
Follow the link for his answers.
Stray Thought 0
A cartoon can tell a whole story in six minutes.
A reality show never ends.
Personally, I prefer cartoons.
They are more real than reality shows.
Sic Nunquam Tyrannis 0
Michael in Norfolk finds a straw at which to grasp. A nugget:
Republican Family Values 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh G. discusses Katie Miller’s call for more teen pregnancies. (No, I am not making that up.)
Aside:
When I was in high school (mumble) years ago, I had a classmate who got pregnant.
The school make her drop out.
They did not make the father drop out.
Just sayin’.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Potentially harmful to society? Security maven Bruce Schneier is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article:
By the Book 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann makes a convincing case that we are living in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Promoting puerility? At the Psychology Today website, John Nosta reports that “a new pre-press study that found 10 minutes of AI assistance measurably reduced persistence and impaired independent cognitive performance.”
More about Big Tech”s incubators of inanity at the link.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Farron argues that Trump’s current acting Attorney-General, Todd Blanche, just said the quiet part out loud. (Warning: Language.)
Read the news report that Farron discusses.
American Stasi 0
Also at the Colorado Sun, attorney Mario Nicolais tells the story of what he had to deal with in securing the release of a teenager who fled to the United States to join his family after having been tortured in his home country, only to be snatched up by ICE and sent to a detention center concentration camp for being.
Frankly, this is not how I would like to see my tax dollars at work.