Too Stupid for Words category archive
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
You wouldn’t make this stuff up, but this clown did.
Remember, the things that you’re liable to read on a computer screen, they ain’t necessarily so.
Those Who Forget the Past . . . 0
. . . would doom themselves–and the rest of us–to repeat it.
Establishmentarians 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini argues that the Sun Devil is in the details.
It’s All about the Algorithm 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Robyn Koslowitz discusses a TikTok challenge which, as nears as I can figure out, involves parents telling kids to go into a bathroom, telling them it’s a safe space where they can curse all they want. Then the parents record the result and post it to “social” media.
Koslowitz lists a number of reasons that this is a bad idea, starting with the idea that it’s a betrayal of trust (that is, saying that a place is safe, then then violating that space. The line that caught my eye, though, was this:
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
The Swift Vote Conspiracy 0
Sam and his crew find themselves dismayed by the delusional dimensions of this dis coarse discourse.
The Swift Vote Conspiracy 0
Rex Huppke wonders how the right-wing ever saw through the dastardly plot. A snippet:
As a liberal in good standing, all I can say is: Dammit, how did they figure it out?
I guess some of it was obvious. Pop superstar Swift has encouraged young people to register to vote and get involved in the electoral process, while her Chiefs tight-end boyfriend Travis Kelce has encouraged people to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others from a deadly and wildly contagious virus. Those are pretty liberal things to do.
But I didn’t think right-wing sleuths would connect the dots this quickly.
Oh well. The vaccinated cat is out of the reusable shopping bag, so I might as well let everyone in on the entire plan.
To echo Paul Harvey, follow the link for the rest of plan.
The Bullies’ Pulpit 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
You may find yourself bedeviled by the experience.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Michael Cohen hoists himself on the “AI” petard.
(snip)
Cohen wrote in a sworn declaration unsealed Friday that he has not kept up with “emerging trends (and related risks)” in legal technology and was not aware that Google Bard was a generative text service that, like Chat-GPT, could create citations and descriptions that “looked real but actually were not.” He instead believed the service to be a “supercharged search engine.”
Just because you see (or hear) it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so.
