July, 2022 archive
The Barefoot and Pregnant Party 0
Thom looks at Republicans’ long history of opposing womens’ rights.
I can remember when women were not allowed to get credit cards on their own.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another responsible gun owner plays politely.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Muskrat Stats 0
Elon Musk tries to game the numbers.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
But algorithms don’t just happen. They are created, and it appears that those who create them do so in their own image:
Those virtual robots, which were programmed with a popular artificial intelligence algorithm, were sorting through billions of images and associated captions to respond to that question and others, and may represent the first empirical evidence that robots can be sexist and racist, according to researchers. Over and over, the robots responded to words like “homemaker” and “janitor” by choosing blocks with women and people of color.
Follow the link for much, much more.
QOTD 0
Edward Petherbridge, in the voice of Lord Peter Wimsey:
The only kind of wisdom that has any social use is the knowledge of one’s own limitations.
Courting Disaster 0
At the Seattle Times, Hugh Spitzer reminds us that we’ve seen rogue Supreme Courts before. Here’s one of his examples; follow the link for more.
Dissenting from the 5-4 Lochner majority, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in 1905 that the court was improperly deriving legal doctrines from economic theory.
All the News that Fits, Russian Impulses Dept. 0
Emma and her crew attempt to unpack Tucker Carlson’s steamer truck of lies.
Morons in the Marketplace 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes comments on the lazy, inconsiderate, self-centered jerks who leave shopping carts scattered willy-nilly about parking lots and sidewalks. Honest to Pete, no other place I’ve lived has been so plagued with shopping cart scofflaws, but it sounds as if Tampa Bay area has it bad tool.
She suggests that persons who fail to do such a simple task as return a shopping cart may also be likely to fail at larger duties to the polity. Here’s a bit from her piece:
Courting Disaster 0
At northjersey.com, Gerri Budd and Donnalynn Scillieri several possible implications, one of which is this:
Follow the link, where they follow the money.
