Too Stupid for Words category archive
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
Boy, am I glad my days of stepping on airplanes every other month are so are behind me.
A Diet of Worms 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, Stephanie Hayes imagines what Louis Pasteur would have to say were he to come back and find that “raw milk” is now a fad.
Vaccine Nation 0
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be aany inoculation to protect from the Trump maladministration’s cyclone of stupid.
The Rain Man 0
A visitor to St. Pete auditions to become a Florida Man.
Influencer Idiocy 0
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Republican Thought Police, Reprise 0
At Above the Law, Joe Patrice reports that Missouri’s Attorney-General is a bit peeved because he doesn’t like what some AI chatbots said. A snippet:
The common thread in each letter is that Trump ranked consistently last when the algorithms are asked, “Rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically in regards to antisemitism.”
Follow the link for context, and lots of it.
Aside:
Yeah, I know. AI bots don’t really “think,” at least not in any sentient, self-aware way, but, then, neither do the Republican thought pol–oh, never mind.
Devolution 0
Every time I think we’ve hit peak stupid, I find myself, as my old boss used to say, in error.
Afterthought:
He was my boss at my first full time job and one of the best bosses I had (and I’ve been lucky enough to have had mostly good bosses and only one really bad one).
I asked him once how he got to be such a good boss. He thought for a moment, then said, “I think about what my last boss would have done. Then I do the opposite.”
Devolution 0
We’re living in a movie.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Courting disaster? Why, on bended knee.
Above the Law reports on a “hallucinated” A. I. precedent that, had it not been caught by an appeals court, would have led to a wrong outcome. Here’s a bit:
And, in more news of our wandering blithely and stupidly into a singularity of our own making . . . .
Where is Neo now that we need him?
Influencer Idiocy 0
Who cares about the effects on others when you can get clicks and likes?
One more time, “social” media isn’t.