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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
Driftglass outs the “tone police.”
Facebook Frolics 0
Ariana Bindman warns you not to fall for the Zuckerborg’s latest strategy for assimilating all before it. the “personal assistant” dubbed “muse.” Here’s a tiny bit from her article:
Ultimately, Muse isn’t really a personal assistant — it’s a digital panopticon disguised as an imp.
Follow the link for her reasoning, and, remember, you are not using “social” media. “Social” media companies are using you.
This New Gilded Age 0
Thom discusses myriad ways in which the Trump maladministration is empowering corporations and depowering consumers.
Russian Impulses 0
Michael in Norfolk suggests that the Con-Artist-in-Chief has been conned. A snippet:
Q. How Does a Country Become an Idiocracy? 0
A. It selects an idiot to be its leader, then it follows the leader.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
For once, politeness didn’t go to the dogs.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You won’t find one without the other.
Lies and Lying Liars, Dis Coarse Discourse Dept. 0
Farron discusses a defamation suit against a right-wing podcaster for his lying lies.
American Stasi 0
I’ve said this in an earlier post, but it bears repeating:
Methinks a strong argument can be made that the Trump maladministration’s hiring practices for their in-house KKK ICE agents may be less than optimal.
Russian Impulses 0
Trudy Rubin argues that Donald Trump is surrendering to Vlad the Invader. Here’s how she starts her column; follow the link for the rest.
The U.S. president demanded that Ukraine “replace” President Volodymyr Zelensky with someone willing to make “a deal” with the Kremlin to (supposedly) end the war. Yet the “deal” that Trump envisions would not end Russia’s aggression but would reward it.
The Psyop 0
Daniel McCarthy argues that Big Tech is plotting to fool us into thinking that AI is alive, rather than an algorithm on steroids. He argues that
Giving the machine a name was cute — giving it human rights isn’t.
What Anthropic’s leaders are up to is an attack on human dignity, and the anti-cruelty policy is part of a sustained campaign to get people to treat AI as conscious.
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
Your Tax Dollars at Work 0
Farron discusses Donald Trump’s latest attempt to bribe voters.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels constrained to display his politeness.
Police say they were able to view security camera footage of the incident, which showed Brown aim the gun at the bartender and raise it in the air.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.