The Strategy 0
Steve M. summarizes the sales pitch. A snippet; follow the link for context.
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.
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.
A Tune for the Times 0
(Warning: Short commercial at about the one minute mark.)
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The Trump maladministration has found a new way to be mean for the sake of mean:
They are now denying naturalization ceremonies to immigrants who have qualified for and wish to obtain American citizenship.
Sporadic Bloggery 0
Things to do.
QOTD 0
Jason Hughes, in the vovice of DS Ben Jones:
The law, Mr. Perkins, is like the Bible. You can always find one quote to contradict another.
War and Mongers of War 0
At Above the Law, Mark Hermann isn’t buying the Trump maladministration’s rationale–irrationale would be more like it–for attacking Venezuelan fishing boats on the open sea. Here’s a tiny bit of his post:
Go read the rest.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Ruben Navarrette looks at Donald Trump’s statements about Somali immigrants and hears a rhyme. A snippet:
Donald Trump took another path, opting instead to channel George Wallace, David Duke and Archie Bunker.
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*Mark Twain.