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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A woman give a new meaning to “photo shoot.”

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Trump maladministration to California cities:

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*Such as (quoting from the report) “any mention of gender, abortion and other inclusive” terminology.

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QOTD 0

Margaret Chase Smith:

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

The Wizard stares into a computer screen.  After a while, he thinks,

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The Rule of Lawless 0

It seems that D. C. grand juries aren’t buying the–er–Trumped up charges against the sandwich slinger.

(Syntax error fixed.)

Finish reading this post »

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet more politeness on the pavement.

We are a broken society.

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Establishmentarian Thought Police 0

Rebecca Watson looks behind the false front of online censors.

Or you can read the transcript.

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A Trumpled Screening Process 0

Caption:  FBI Lowers Recruiting Standars.  Image:  FBI HR Rep says to  uniformed man standing on a Segway ans asks,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Able to take responsibility for its actions? Per Joe Patrice at Above the Law, we may soon find out.

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The Off-Line Scam 0

Writing at Psychology Today Blogs of a scam from two centuries ago, Matthew Facciani sees similarities with today’s online scams.

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QOTD 0

Bill Haywood:

If one man has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn’t get.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 0

For years, the right-wing has been telling us that the federal government can’t be trusted.

And they’ve given us one.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Secure? That bridge in Brooklyn is still on the market.

Security maven Bruce Schneier points out (emphasis added):

Any AI that is working in an adversarial environment—and by this I mean that it may encounter untrusted training data or input—is vulnerable to prompt injection. It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.

Details at the link.

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Establishmentarians 0

Mrs. Betty Bowers discusses how the Trump maladministration is trying to proselytize the U. S. Armed Forces and how we can help in the resistance.

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The News Cycle 0

Mans says, Woman says, “The Epstein files are a distraction from the arbitrary cruelty of his deportation program.”—>Man says, “The arbitrary cruelty of his deportation program is a distraction from his inexplicable subservience to Putin.”—>Woman says, “His inexplicable subservience to Putin is a distraction from his disastrous tariff policies.”—>Man says, “His disastrous tariff policies are a distraction from his blatant financial corruption.”—>Woman says, “His blatant financial corruption is a distraction from his autocratic consolidation of power.”—>Man says, “His autocratic consolidation of power is a distraction from the malevolent incompetence of his entire administration.”—>Woman says, “The malevolent incompetence of his entire administration is a distraction from his fascist militarization of D. C.”—>and back to the beginning.” />

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another “responsible gun owner” brandishes his portable phallus as passers-by.

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The Rule of Lawless 0

Trumped-up charges.

No surprises there.

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QOTD 0

Lin Yutang:

The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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