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A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
This is an a cappella version of “Carol of the Bells” – originally a Ukrainian New Year celebration song titled “Shchedryk” – whose music was first written by Mykola Leontovych in the eastern town of Pokrovsk (now under Russian occupation) in the 1900s. The composer would later be murdered by a Soviet agent in 1921. Our adaptation sends strength and solidarity to the brave people of Ukraine facing down Russian invasion, in spite of the pressure placed on them by failing allies and cruel diplomatic games.
The Rule of Lawless 0
In what I consider a quite appropriate follow-up to the previous post, I must say, it is not surprising that University of Chicago law professor Aziz Huq argues that
Follow the link for the evidence.
The Greenland New Deal 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s determination of annex Greenland, as well as several other of his somewhat unusual (at least for anyone else) statements.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Trustworthy? Hardly.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Richard Gunderman reminds us that “(t)rust arises from relationships, not from digital probability functions.”
This New Gilded Age 0
VIa Boston.com, we learn that the kids are starting to feel that the American dream of the possibility of upward mobility through hard work is but a memory. A snippet:
In 1991, the typical first-time homebuyer was 28 years old. This year, that buyer was 40, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Recommended Listening 0
Harry Shearer’s interview with Gary Marcus about “the AI illusion and why it isn’t intelligence” on this week’s episode of Le Show.
And in more (quite disgusting) news involving AI.
QOTD 0
Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:
There are too many people in this world who spend their lives trying to get away with things.
A Matter of Perspective 0
Why is Donald Trump trying to steal Greenland from Denmark?
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz may have nailed it.
Follow the link for the rest of his article.
Disorder in the Court 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Some polite Facebook frolics.
Republican Thought Police 0
Atrios provides an example of the exercise of freedom of the surpress.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Able to appreciate beauty? Neel Burton, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, points out the, per Kant, it can’t.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Kimball Shinkoskey listens to the man who would be king and hears a rhyme from a millennium ago. A couplet:
Follow the link for context.
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*Mark Twain.
A Bad Spell 0
Methinks they misplet “victimizers.”