Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Too good to be true? According to Faisal Hoque at Psychology Today Blogs, “. . . it probably is.”
Follow the link for his reasons.
Afterthought:
Remember, AI does not create. It regurgitates.
Devolution 0
Michael in Norfolk makes a frighteningly convincing case that the United States is going bananas banana republic.
The Medicine Show 0
David discusses the junk science behind the claim that there is a relationship between Tylenol and autism and offers a theory as to why the Trump maladministration is weaponizimg autism.
Republican Thought Police 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Dan Cashman, who once hosted a late night talk show, is not sanguine. A snippet:
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
We couldn’t find any lobster costumes, and a whirling freestyle in the middle of a school week was not gonna happen. So – with some extra input from a few media sources to cover instrumental sections – this is our parody rendition of “Under the Sea”, one of our old Disney favourites for its sheer joy and energy. It was composed by Alan Menken (with cracking lyrics by Howard Ashman) for the 1989 animated “The Little Mermaid” and won an Oscar. Of course, the calypso lobster’s forlorn plea for an alternative path falls on deaf ears. Which brings us to free speech.
It’s been a scary time in lots of ways in the US, with the temperature cranked up again by shocking murders and reckless responses, and sadly now the First Amendment (for decades a place of some bipartisan accord) seems to be creaking. As we were working on the arrangement, we learned that Jimmy Kimmel’s show had been reinstated by Disney – which is great news, having loved meeting him in 2020 albeit under bizarre pandemic circumstances – though we gather that much is still unclear about how the matter is going to play out. Here’s hoping that enough uproar is generated that Trump and co. think again about making their predictable/alarming move on limiting freedom of expression.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It seems that the Trump maladministration is committed to exercising undue process of lawless.
And we are again reminded that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
(Syntax error fixed.)
The Peace Faker 0
Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations.
The stupid. It burns.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is not scripture. That is a Republican family value.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that
Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .
Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
More politeness on the pavement.
As a society, we seem to have decided that poisoning ourselves with lead is just hunky-dory.
Stray Thought 0
I’m starting to wonder which is worse: being the citizen of a rogue nation or being the citizen of a laughingstock nation.
Free Trumpled Speech, One More Time
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Ring of Fire looks at Donald Trump’s campaign to silence anyone who criticizes him. (Warning: Mild language.)