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The Privatization Scam 0
PoliticalProf looks follows the money.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much? 0
A teaching tool? If you want more fools.
At the Psychology Today website, Soren Kaplan discusses a study involving 26,000 students indicating that “(u)sing AI can create short-term results but may stifle long-term learning.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice that todays Supreme Supremacist Court has openly exchanged its robes black robes for white (my phrasing, not his).
No summary or excerpt can do his piece justice (just like today’s Supreme Supremacist Court can’t seem to do justic–oh, never mind). Just go read it.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Austin American-Statesman, James Kallison is distressed at efforts in Texas to replace public education with public indoctrination, observing that
I commend his article to your attention, as Texas is not alone in wanting to use public funds to promote public ignorance.
The Blame Gamer 0
Robert Reich sees a pattern:
Follow the link for examples.
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Jonathan Wolf analyzes claims that vandals have attacked the Reflecting Pool and concludes
And what else would you expect? Trump thinks he is going to be remembered as a builder in Washington, but he is going to be remembered as the city’s vandal in chief..
Follow the link for context.
American Stasi, Privatization Scam Dept. 0
Scripps News’s Patrick Terpstra follows the money. A snippet:
ICE was bringing them to Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest immigration detention center. An obscure company called Acquisition Logistics LLC won a $1.2 billion no-bid contract to stand up the soft-sided facilities designed to house thousands of migrants.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Impartial and unbiased? Just as impartial and unbiased as the internet it scrapes to fill its database: As Phil Reed warns us at the Psychology Today website, “AI in healthcare amplifies existing gender and cultural stereotypes, worsening inequality.”
Follow the link for his evidence.
(Slightly edited for clarity.)
Lobster Potty 0
We are truly living under an idiocracy.