Actions . . . 0
. . . have consequences.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump sounds a warning.
Stray Thought 0
If Donald Trump is going to going to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Exam, perhaps he should take it himself to show the kids how it’s done. Or at least let the kids know how he did on it when he was in school.
And, yes, I remember taking it. It wasn’t such a big deal, but that was back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, and kids stilled played non-video games.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Unbiased and objective? That bridge in Brooklyn is still on the market.
Speaking of Today’s QOTD . . . . 0
Now even your baggage can have baggage.
“But It’s the Only Possible Explanation” 0
Rebecca Watson takes a look at the psychology of persons who fall for embrace conspiracy theories. A quote:
He (Cornell University Professor Gordon Pennycook–ed.) found that, as Jamie (Bernstein–ed.) put it, “people who are more likely to rate a meaningless statement as profound are the same people who are more likely to have high religiosity, believe in the supernatural, believe in conspiracy theories, and think that alternative medicines such as homeopathy and reiki are totally legit. Additionally, the people who generally do better on analytical tests also tend to be more skeptical when presented with meaningless sentences made up of buzzwords.”
Or you can read the transcript.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.
Republican Family Values 0
They don’t seem to apply to families.
At the Detroit Free-Press, Debbie Dingell, who represents Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District, looks at the harm the Trump maladministration is doing to Americans’ health and health care. A snippet:
An estimated 17 million people could lose their health care as a direct result. And premiums for everyone will go up. Without enhanced premium tax credits for ACA marketplace plans, more healthy people will drop coverage, making the risk pool sicker on average and more expensive to insure.
Courting Disaster 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s attack on an impartial federal judiciary and the impllications thereof.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
They found politeness is a parking space.
Police say the two initially walked away from each other, but Floyd came back. The victim used bear spray on Floyd and investigators say that’s when Floyd pulled out a gun and fired three shots as the victim ran into an alley.
We are a broken society.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Truthful? Pigs. Wings.
At Psychology Today Blogs, Timothy Cook (no relation to Tim Apple) offers a four-step process for tricking AI into revealing its biases and fabrications.
Given the hype and hyperbole about these robotic search engines and given how many browsers and websites are trying to hornswoggle us into letting AI bots do our thinking for us, it is a worthwhile read.