“Facts Are What People Think” 0
Veteran newspaper editor Martin Baron is not sanguine at the state of dis coarse discourse. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A helpmeet of hackers? Security maven Bruce Schneier reports that
Much more at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another case of neighborly politeness.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” 0
in a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Bob Ory hears a rhyme that sounds awfully like “a difference without a distinction.”
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*Mark Twain.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
How Stuff Works: The Trump Ministry of Truth 0
I do not think it much of a stretch to say that one of its guiding principles is “What they don’t know won’t hurt us.”
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A competent legal researcher? Why, you might even say it’s unprecedented.
A Slip of the Tongue 0
David suggests that Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud on CNN (and points out that CNN failed follow up on it).
Learn more about “plenary authority.”
Republican Thought Police 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz pretty much nails it.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” demonstrates politeness on the pavement.
So many guns. So much stupid.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Manipulative? Per Thomas Claburn at El Reg,
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They want you to service them.