2025 archive
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another so-called “responsible gun owner” discharges a portable phallus whilst traversing the nation’s traffic trails.
We are a broken society.
Who Was That Mascaraed Man? 0
Why, didn’t you recognize him? It was the Man Without a Clue.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
What’s the Best Catch There Is? 0
Why, of course, it’s a Trumpled Catch-22>.
Aside:
The pretzel twists that the Trump maladministration comes up with so as to be mean for the sake of mean leave one’s jaw ajar.
Hoist on His Own Pe(te)tard 0
Sometimes, AI gets it right.
The Strategy 0
Steve M. summarizes the sales pitch. A snippet; follow the link for context.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
An incubator of intellectual infantilism? At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta sounds a warning; follow the link for a detailed discussion of each point.
- AI creates a suspended, passive state like Eliot’s “etherized upon a table.”
- It offers fluency that feels like insight but leaves thought empty.
- We risk surrendering judgment as ease may replace genuine understanding.
Real Big Men 0
Michael in Norfolk offers his thoughts on why the Trump maladminstration and (many of) its supporters take such delight in mean for the sake of mean.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)