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War and Mongers of War 0
Via The Japan Times, history professor Timothy Snyder looks at Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran and concludes:
This is what happens when voters entrust entertainers to wage war and profiteers to negotiate peace.
Follow the link for his reasons for saying that.
Vaccine Nation 0
Inaction has consequences. So does willful ignorance.
We are a society of stupid.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And, again, politeness becomes child’s play.
Just another day in the NRA’s festival for firearm fetishists.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent couples counselor? Better have that divorce lawyeer’s number handy.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Robert Klarich, in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, reports hearing a rhyme. A snippet:
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*Mark Twain.
Driven to Destruction 0
A tale of AI, that is, autoficial intelligence.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Survivors of America’s World War II Japanese internment camps look at the Trump maladministration’s concentration camps detention centers and hear a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses Louisiana’s decision to bring back slave labor involuntary servitude.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via the Las Vegas Sun, Jackie Calmes details how Donald Trump is making racism great again.
America Stasi 0
Under the rule of law, adjudicate and retaliate do not rhyme.
Under the rule of flaw, it seems that they may.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
Time of having “social” media decide what to hear about?
The EFF travels back into the past to recommend a way to escape tentacles of “social” media algorithms.
Facebook Frolics 0
Politico reports:
One more time, “social” media isn’t.