April, 2024 archive
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
El Reg reports that, apparently, once ChatGPG makes a mistake (and it makes a lot of them), it will exist in perpetuity. Here’s the lede; follow the link for the details.
Misdirection Play, Crime Wavers Dept. 0
Thom makes the case that, despite conventional wisdom, inequality (such as, for example, the effects of Ronald Reagan’s “trickle on economics”), not poverty alone, is the primary root of crime.
He provides some telling examples.
In related vein, speaking of arrogant billionaires . . . .
And, in News of Mean for the Sake of Mean . . . . 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice theorizes that, in trying to prove just how cruel and cold-hearted she can be, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem may have just possibly stepped in it.
QOTD 0
Ronald Howard, in the voice of Sherlock Holmes:
Why not give them (the suffragettes–ed.) the vote. They couldn’t do any worse with it than we have.
Stray Thought 0
My ISP has outsourced its email to Yahoo! (I gather that a number of ISPs are outsourcing their email services because they are lazy cheap sons of b–oh, never mind). Until I figure out how to import my emails into a mail client such as Thunderbird–my personal favorite–I am stuck with using Yahoo!’s webmail interface, which is not only clunky, but which also includes advertisements disguised as emails in my inbox.
Which leads me to remark that . . . .
Despite what Yahoo! would have me believe when I delete an email exchange from my inbox, an exchange of emails is not a “conversation.”
It is, at worst, an annoying but necessary task. At best, it is a correspondence.
But it’s not, by any stretch of the imagination, a “conversation,” for Pete’s sake.
Furrfu.
Deja Vu All Over Again and Again and Again and Again . . . . 0
In my youth, I demonstrated against the Vietnamese War, the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a lie of Lie of that time, in such small ways as I could.
Methinks the artist is onto something.
Aside:
Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M has an interesting take on this issue.
Afterthought:
The unmitigated gall of these uppity students to oppose gratuitous bloodshed!
All the News that Fits 0
F. T. Rea looks at the testimony of David Pecker at the Trump trial and asks,
Follow the link for the rest of his musings.
Republican Thought Police 0
Farron delights in Florida Man’s being hoisted on his own petard.
Candy Crushed 0
I think I have expressed before in these electrons my skepticism as to the benefits of legalized on-line gambling.
Barnum was wrong.
There’s more than one born every minute.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” practices a random act of politeness.
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.
The Fifth Columnists 0
At the Roanoke Times, Dan Casey tries to figure out why three western Virginia Congresscritters seem unwilling to aid Ukraine in its struggle against Russia’s invasion.
Tales of the Trumpling* 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts writes of a thoroughly Trumpled political party.
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*And I had so hoped I’d never see cause to use this title again . . . .
QOTD 0
George Washington Carver:
Afterthought:
. . . but it shall wreak much destruction along the way.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Shorter Cameron Smith: Paul Simon was prescient.
