2023 archive
The Privilege Flew? 0
At Above the Law, Liz Dye reports (emphasis added); much more at the link.
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Spy Patrol, Reprise 0
Seth looks back at a week of weird.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler sees echoes–well, heck, more than echoes–of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in the tactics Republicans are deploying to stoke fears the American students might (gasp!) be taught America’s history. Here’s how he starts his article:
The best answer to that question is another question: Why are we allowing it in Kansas, in 2023?
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“The Algorithm Made Me Do It” 0
The ChatGPT Bot claims that it is above–or, perhaps, beyond–the law.
For some reason, I find this disquieting.
Special Bonus QOTD 0
George Orwell once said,
Paul Krugman suggests that Sarah Huckbee Shanders’s response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address brings that quotation to life. Follow the link for the evidence.
“What They Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Me” 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at Florida Man’s war against history. A snippet:
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Methinks the neighbor who spoke to a TV reporter after yet another child was sacrificed to the NRA’s leaden idol has a point.
Afterthought:
I’m so old that I can remember when the NRA was about gun safety, not about gun sales.
Facebook Frolics 0
The Ghost of Cambridge Analytica comes back to haunt cost the Zuckerborg a relative pittance.
Remember, “social” media isn’t.
Faking It Is Not Making It 0
Professor of English Dennis M. Clausen is not sanguine about ChatGPT and similar so-called “artificially intelligent” chatbots, at least to the extent that students might try to use them as shortcuts do completing assignments. He writes, in part,
Follow the link for his reasoning.
