American Stasi, Reprise 0
Speaking of the surveillance state . . . .
American Stasi and the Rule of Lawless 0
And it’s the right-wingers who keep harping on the “surveillance state,” except, natch, when they’re doing the surveilling.
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The ruling found that DHS did not follow the federal law requiring the agency requesting taypayer address from the IRS to have specifically identified the individual in question. The requesting agency must provide the IRS with the name and address of the person whose information it seeks to obtain. IRS failed to verify that this information had been provided in the majority of the 47,300 DHS requests.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet again a “responsible gun owner” exposes a portable phallus to a child.
Words fail me.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
In a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun, Jim Paladino hears a rhyme from the Watergate time.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Cocksure of itself? At the Psychology Today website, Alain Samson warns us that “(b)oth LLMs themselves and users tend to overestimate the correctness of LLMs’ answers.”
Presidential Impunity 0
Via the Sacramento Bee, Nathan L. Gonzales wonders how the heck Donald Trump keeps getting away with his lies.
Here’s his wonder:
Follow the link for context.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” decides to play with his portable phallus, yet another child is dead.
We are a society of stupid which has eschewed any measures to avoid sacrificing its members to enrich the merchants of death.
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? 0
Per Robert J. Shapiro, writing at the Washington Monthly about Donald Trump’s arbitrary and capricious trade tariff you-can-hardly-call-them polices and about the possible ramifications thereof, Trump’s answer to that question is a resounding, “Yes.”
The ICEmen Cometh, a Notion of Immigrants Dept. 0
NJ.com reports on a family whose husband got put on ICE for a decades old missed court appearance, one of which he was unaware.
They were taken aback, as the couple were both Trump supporters who had voted for him three times.
Here’s a bit:
Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.
Asked what she would say to him now, she paused.
“You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.
Real Big Men 0
Afterthought:
It’s one thing if you need it for your job or live on a farm, but, really, how many six packs are you planning to pick up at the 7-11?