Collateral Damage 0
Farron discusses how the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” has harmed health care.
The Grand Plan 0
Afterthought:
I never anticipated in my wildest dreams that I would find myself a citizen of a rogue state.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
Authorities say Geonard Wade handed a 15-year-old family member a shotgun that unintentionally discharged around 7:40 p.m.
A bullet struck the 51-year-old in the arm. . . .
A Quibble:
It was a shotgun. Shotguns shoot shot or slugs. They don’t shoot bullets.
The Business Man President 0
Shorter Michael in Norfolk: Yeah. Right.
Quackery 0
Farron discusses an editorial from The Lancet about the damage RFK Jr. has done to the public’s health.
Read the news report that led to Farron’s video.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, as we all know, politeness takes practice.
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.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A wolf in sheep’s clothing? At the Psychology Today website, Mike Brooks explores why many persons don’t see the dangers posed by AI. He makes four main points:
- We laugh at each new AI iteration right up until it’s too late. This is a pattern as old as the steam engine.
- AI agents have already retaliated against humans and disabled their own safety controls unprompted.
- Bad actors are imagining AI-powered schemes that decent people would never think to anticipate.
- There is no enforceable global regulation for autonomous AI agents operating on private computers.
Follow the link for a detailed exploration of each one.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Weaponized? Security maven Bruce Schneir looks at the recent who-shot-john at the Pentagon and concludes that “AI will be used for military purposes, just as every other technology our species has invented has.”
Follow the link for the full article.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Per northjersey.com, veterans of the civil rights mevement are hearing lots of rhymes from those times from the tramps of the American Stasi. Here’s a tiny bit:
“The government is not just repressing Black people,” he said. “Now, they are repressing a broader swath of the population that includes anybody that opposes them. . . .”
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*Mark Twain.
The Irrationalization, Reprise 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock tries to figure out why the Trump maladministration wanted war with Iran.
No summary or excerpt will do his piece justice. Just go read it.