April, 2023 archive
A Modest Counter-Proposal 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Seattle Times has a suggestion.
The first part is the U. S. citizenship test. . . .
Follow the link for the second part.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Robert Kuttner describes the disparity.
The Party of Nope 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Portland Press-Herald points out that it takes two to tango.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
thom talks with professors Marchi Pally and Pamela Cooper-White about the rise of “Christian” nationalism.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
We don’t just have gun problem in America. We also have a gun nut problem.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Scott Maxwell looks at the latest strategy to turn the Statue of Liberty into a liar. Here’s how his article starts:
Follow the link for the rest.
Patriot Gamers 0
Methinks Atrios has a point.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier remarks on the confluence of guns and stupid.
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.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
Worst-Case Scenario? 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times is less than optimistic about the outcome of this noble experiment.
Artificial Intelligence (Gathering) 0
Artificial “Intelligence” seems to be the hot new toy on the inner webs. A lot of persons are jumping in and playing with them just because they can, without considering the implications of running nekkid through the internet.
At Above the Law, Ayesha Haq, who specializes in legal issues regarding privacy and the internet, is not sanguine about the implications of ChatGPT and similar–er–tools as regards users’ personal information. I commend her piece to your attention; here’s a tiny bit of it:
1. It does not state a legal basis for processing the personal information it receives.
2. Users are not given a mechanism to exercise their “right to be forgotten” or “right to amend” personal information.
3. Personal information is stored indefinitely with no insight on how that data is secured and protected.
4. ChatGPT gathers information from unknown sources on the internet. If a user has any digital footprint, chances are ChatGPT knows a great deal about that user depending on what is available on the internet. This knowledge may be false, and the user has no recourse to correct, amend, or even delete the false information.