April, 2025 archive
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Telling you what you want to hear? Just maybe.
At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta argues that AI bots are being engineered to tell us what they their algorithms “think” we want to hear. A snippet:
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
What do you have when you lose the rule of law, due process, and justice, and almost half the population thinks that’s okay? They also think having an oligarchic authoritarian in charge is a good thing). You have USA – 2025
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Laura Loomer complains that “uppity blacks” don’t know their place.
Yup, she actually said, “Uppity.”
They’ve taken off their hoods.
They’re not even trying to hide their racism in these Trumpled times.
(Slightly edited for style.)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
When you attend the ceremony, be sure to say farewell to the dearly departed by displaying your politeness.
(snip)
Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards believes the shooting started after two funeral attendees got into an argument before the casket was in the ground. He says it’s something he’s never seen before.
We are a broken society.
Bare Naked Ladies 0
Every time I think this country can’t get stupider, by heavens! it goes and proves me wrong. (Additional stupid at the link.)
Words fail me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux tells of several persons who fled to the United States to escape tyranny and oppression. Unfortunatel, they are now hearing in the U. S. rhymes of the lands they left behind. Here’s a tiny bit:
“Khomeini felt that Iranian universities had turned into a breeding ground for Western and communist influences,” he said. The higher education ministry was told to end suspect activity on college campuses, which soon after were shut down. Textbooks were rewritten “to remove all mentions of what was considered un-Islamic.”
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*Mark Twain.
The Choice 0
PoliticalProf lays it out.
The Art of the Con 0
LeBron Hill suggests that working class persons who supported Trump are starting to catch on to his con.
We shall see, but history suggests otherwise, for history teaches us that hate sells, and Trump peddles hate industriously.
A Notion of Immigrants, Reprise 0
Mary Trump lists the lies told by the lying liars in the Trump maladministration to justify his persecution of immigrants.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Via the Las Vegas Son, Juan Esparza Loera notices a pattern (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the context of his conclusion.
Aside:
Why am I not surprised?
The Rule of Lawless 0
The quiet part is now out loud.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expose his portable phallus while passing on the pavement.