Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Vaccine Nation 0
Via the Hartford Courant, physicians Daniel Tobin and Anthony Yoder express their concern that the Trump maladministration is hazardous to our health A snippet:
Courting Disaster 0
Chris talks with civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill abour recent rulings by the Supreme Supremacist Court.
The Sound of Silence 0
About this time 24 years ago today I was out back of my workplace in the smoking area with my boss and several other persons. (As an aside, he was one of the best bosses I ever had and no, I no longer smoke.)
We were listening to the silence–silence because the building was under one of the approaches to Philadelphia International Airport directly across the river, but, that day, no planes were flying.
I remember my boss saying, “I’m glad there’s a Texan in the White House.”
How wrong he was.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s no politeness quite like neighborly politeness.
DOGE Bull 0
Ring of Fire discusses a whistleblower’s report that DOGE compromised almost every living American’s social security number by uploading them to the cloud.
Afterthought:
Just because someone knows how to make computers dance jigs, it doesn’t mean he or she knows how stuff works in the bigger wider world.
Q. E. D.
Republican Thought Police 0
The editorial board of the Las Vegas Sun finds it distressing that the Trump maladministration is coming after an honorably-discharged veteran for having the unmitigated gall to peacefully stand up to Donald Trump’s not-so-secret police. Here’s a tiny bit from their editorial:
Take note that Mavalwalla is not accused of striking officers, vandalizing vehicles or destroying property. While some other participants were arrested at the time of the protest, Mavalwalla wasn’t among them. Nor is he accused of participating in any violence or property destruction. Instead, weeks later, on the day he was moving into a new home with his girlfriend and children, the FBI arrived at dawn, shackled him in front of his family and charged him with “conspiracy to impede or injure officers.” He now faces the possibility of a $250,000 fine, up to six years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Mind-numbing? At Psychology Today Blogs, Cornelia C. Walther warns that relying on AI can dumb us down. A snippte:
She goes on to offer some techniques to negate the negative.
In related new, El Reg reports on the newly-instituted AI Darwin Awards.
QOTD 0
Maximilien Robespierre:
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.
Establishmentarians 0
The man who is arguably the most irreligous person in America has now come out as an establishmentarian.
So we should ask that question that should always be asked of establishmentarians: What’s in it for him?
Because establishmentarianism is always, when you boil it down, about power and control, never about souls.