2025 archive
Real Big Men 0
Methinks Atrios’s definition is quite en point.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Security maven Bruce Schneier looks at the hype and hoopla over AI and hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit of his article:
We’ve seen this out play before. Social media companies made the same sorts of promises 20 years ago: instant communication enabling individual connection at massive scale. Fast-forward to today, and the technology that was supposed to give individuals power and influence ended up controlling us. Today social media dominates our time and attention, assaults our mental health, and—together with its Big Tech parent companies—captures an unfathomable fraction of our economy, even as it poses risks to our democracy.
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*Mark Twain.
Patriot Pariah Gamers
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I never expected to find myself living in a rogue state . . . .
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” displays politeness on the pavement.
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 Rule of Lawless 0
Once again, the man who would be king demonstrates his contempt for the rule of law.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent confidential counselor? At Psychology Today Blogs, psychology professor Hal Shorey warns us that “(s)ystems like ChatGPT do not adequately guard your privacy and are not accountable if they give you bad advice.”
Follow the link for more warnings.
The Gaslight Pipeline 0
David parses the Trump maladministration’s doubletalk on tariffs, while noting the authoritarian aspect of expecting persons to believe stuff when their own day-to-day experiences are contrary thereunto.
The Entitlement Society 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, LZ Granderson argues that “(m)en like Trump represent what the founders were fighting against.” Here’s a bit of his argument:
Their aversion wasn’t to wealth and power. It was about what can happen to a person who grows up knowing nothing but wealth and power.
Follow the link for the rest of his reasoning.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Celebrate children’s birthdays with politeness.
And thus passeth more lives in the NRA’s Garden of Bleedin’.
The Man Who Would Be King 0
Michael in Norfolk nails it. A snippet:
Follow the link for context.
