Consider the Source 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jason Shimiaie reminds that “(g)aslighting is a way of replacing your subjective reality with someone else’s.”
Go read his and consider, does it remind you of anyone in–or of anyone “providing”–the news?
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Thom’s caller hears a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” performs a random act of politeness.
In related news, neighborly politeness again goes to for the dogs.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
More mean for the sake of mean:
The story goes on to point out that, natch, he’s not illegal, he’s not an immigrant, and he’s not even of Mexican descent.
We have lost our way.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
If you get deported by ICE, you can expect to fly the fiendly skies.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . are a malleable thing.
In a longer piece in which he discusses how the MAGA movement is fed by, and feeds on, white nationalism and racism, Field notes an irony:
I commend the entire article to you attention.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Bait for the easily bamboozled? Fritz Kessler counsels caution.
Signal Achievements, Reprise 0
Security expert Bruce Schneier takes a deep dive in signalgate and its implications. In the light of recent events, the whole thing is worth a read. Here’s a tiny little bit.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness again becomes child’s play.
We are a society gone insane from lead poisoning of our own doing.
“Vengeance Is Mine” 0
At the Sacramento Bee, law professor Erwin Chemerinsky looks at Donald Trump’s quest for retribution from law firms that have incurred his wrath. A snippet:
This is the playbook of a dictator, not a president in a democracy under the rule of law.
A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: Mild language.
“Thinning the Herd” 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini is less than sanguine about RFK Jr.’s stewardship sewership of the Department of Health and Human Services. A snippet:
But that was way back in … 2024.
The plan now seems to involve thinning the herd.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Muskrat Love 0
A quote:
This is authoritarianism hiding behind an American flag.
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Via Der Spiegel, a very sad story that illustrates why maybe, just maybe, AI robots should talk like robots, as Bruce Schneir recently suggested.
Suffer the Children 0
Again, that’s not scripture. That’s a Republican family value.