Facebook Frolics 0
At SFGate, Stephen Council reports on the Zuckerborg’s turn to AI in its quest for assimilation. Council is not sanguine.
Here’s a tiny bit from his piece.
His point that people need more friends gels with recent research into the ill-health effects of isolation. But Zuckerberg’s idea of patching over loneliness with algorithmic avatars is an ugly vision of the world: a purposeful unraveling of the social fabric that gives us community, culture, accountability and love. We need to refuse this vision. The solution to not having enough friends is — needs to be — making more friends. More care and responsibility for our neighbors, not bubbles of solitude.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Another “responsible gun owner” chooses to show politeness on the pavement.
A preliminary investigation suggests a female driver was involved in an accident and when attempting to flag down the other driver involved, that driver shot towards her vehicle, striking the children who were seated inside.
We are a broken society.
Vaccine Nation 0
Rebecca Watson looks at how anti-vax lies led to a mass shooting in Atlanta.
Or you can read the transcript.
A Loafsome Attack 0
Via Kathryn Rubino at Above the Law, this tribute to the Trump maladministration’s decision to throw the book at someone who threw a sandwich is circulating on “social” media.
Rubino’s post has commentary which is well worth a read. A tiny excerpt (emphasis added):
The Policy Statement 0
Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy in one short paragraph:
- Nice little export you have there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.
Demeaning of Life 0
Bob Molinaro, sportswriter extraordinaire:
“We’re Looking at an Administration . . . that Does Not Obey Laws” 0
Thom talks with Malcolm Nance about how Trump’s deploying American troops against Americans violates the law. The relevant portion of the video starts at about the five minute mark; the first part of the video ia about the Trump-Putin meeting. (Warning: Commercial at about the 3 1/2 minute mark.)
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Over at The Rectification of Names, Yastreblyansky hears a rhyme all the way from Rome.
And here’s a bonus rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
American Stasi 0
Honest to Pete, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
It would seem that yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” has performed a random act of politeness.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom talks with Kymone Freeman about Trump’s military occupation of the District of Columbia. (Warning: Short commercial at about the three-minute mark.)
The Control Freak 0
Via the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star’s Melinda Hennenberger offers what methinks is a simple lens through which to view the actions of the Trump maladministration. Here’s a tiny bit from her article: