2024 archive
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Also, not your friend despite what they want you to think, as sociologist Joseph E. Davis points out at Psychology Today Blogs, where he points out that
Follow the link for the evidence.
Vaccine Nation 0
Sam talks with Dr. Peter J. Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, about his recent book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-science: A Scientist’s Warning, and about how being against vaccines became part of right-wing
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” discharges his responsibility.
Police said the bullet hit an innocent bystander in the “lower extremities.”
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.
Facebook Frolics 0
Hate-full frolics by the America’s Talibangelicals.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better, Disinformation Superhighway Dept. 0
The EFF’s David Greene highlights the hypocrisy, A snippet:
Agencies can’t even pass on information about websites state election officials have identified as disinformation, even if they don’t request that any action be taken, they assert.
Yet just this week the vast majority of those same lawmakers said the government’s interest in removing election interference misinformation from social media justifies banning a site used by 150 million Americans.
Details at the link.
“Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied” 0
That’s not just a legal maxim.
It’s Donald Trump’s go-to legal strategy.
And, in more legal news of the Trump . . . .
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier thinks that the devolution of “social” media can help us understand the potentia–and the potential dangers–of artificial “intelligence.” Here’s a bit from the beginning of his article:
The five items he discusses are:
- Advertising.
- Surveillance
- Virality (as in “going viral,” not as in “strong”)
- Lock-in (of
yourdata about you)- Monopolization (or, alternatively, monetization)
Follow the link for his detailed exploration of each.
The Plane Truth 0
Thom discusses how Donald Trump’s actions led directly to Boeing’s broken planes.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The hunt for politeness continues.
In this case, the reak turkey was at the wrong end of the gun.
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.
Malice in Blunderland 0
Martin Schramm argues, that, like Alice, we have fallen through a mirror into an alternate universe where everything is upside down and backwards. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Look at what has gone so wrong and seems so backward in the Republican Party founded by Abe and forged by Ike (who saved Europe from being conquered by Hitler) and Ron (who gloriously praised the Greatest Generation that made the world safe for democracy).
But we’ve just seen and heard the new standard bearer-apparent of the Republican Party – Donald Trump – lavishing praise on Europe’s only democracy-snuffing, free-speech-stifling, dictatorial autocrat: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And we’ve heard all about his love of all sorts of dictators – and even praise of Adolf Hitler.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner observes that
Republicans in the former Confederacy seem determined to refight the Civil War.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal looks at the conflict in Gaza and hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain