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QOTD 0

Benjamin Disraeli:

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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The Card Shark 0

Get the back story from Reuters.

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Monger of Hate 0

Florida Man.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Worthy of trust? Security maven Bruce Schneier points out that

The promise of personal AI assistants rests on a dangerous assumption: that we can trust systems we haven’t made trustworthy. We can’t.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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The Republican Health Scare Proposal 0

Farron looks at the Republican plan to make health care even more expensive for those who can least afford it.

The United States made a terrible decision when it chose to put profit-making insurance companies in charge of health care. They value the profiting over the insuring any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

For example.

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The Gamer 0

It appears that war is just a game to him, and human being just blips on a screen

Pete Hegseth playing a video game called

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Yet another so-called “responsible gun owner” discharges a portable phallus whilst traversing the nation’s traffic trails.

We are a broken society.

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Who Was That Mascaraed Man? 0

Why, didn’t you recognize him? It was the Man Without a Clue.

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QOTD 0

Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

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Break Time 0

Off to drink liberally.

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What’s the Best Catch There Is? 0

Why, of course, it’s a Trumpled Catch-22>.

Aside:

The pretzel twists that the Trump maladministration comes up with so as to be mean for the sake of mean leave one’s jaw ajar.

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Hoist on His Own Pe(te)tard 0

Sometimes, AI gets it right.

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Influencer Idiocy 0

Florida Man.

One more time, “social” media isn’t.

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American Stasi 0

ICE agent with a small bronw-skinned child in custory says,

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

Bubblelicious? Jonathan Wolf sure thinks so.

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The Strategy 0

Steve M. summarizes the sales pitch. A snippet; follow the link for context.

Trump isn’t just a guy with dementia and diminished impulse control shouting racist insults when he’s supposed to be talking about grocery prices. He’s a guy who’s long had an intuitive understanding of how to use scapegoating and bigotry to win over millions of voters. He knows that his people, at least, will fall for all these distractions, and many of them will conclude that he’s still a good president even if he’s not doing anything to make it easier to pay their bills, because he hates the people they hate.

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QOTD 0

Hugo Grotius:

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

An incubator of intellectual infantilism? At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta sounds a warning; follow the link for a detailed discussion of each point.

  • AI creates a suspended, passive state like Eliot’s “etherized upon a table.”
  • It offers fluency that feels like insight but leaves thought empty.
  • We risk surrendering judgment as ease may replace genuine understanding.

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Real Big Men 0

Michael in Norfolk offers his thoughts on why the Trump maladminstration and (many of) its supporters take such delight in mean for the sake of mean.

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