Just Desserts, All the News that Fits Dept. 0
David discusses the drastic fall in ratings for CBS News since Bari Weiss turned it into Fox News Lite and finds some cause for optimism a straw at which to grasp.
Afterthought:
Walter Cronkite would be in tears were he here to see this.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Once again, playing with a gun leads to gun play.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino reports that Bill Barr finds that he has to wait in TSA lines just like everyone else. She goes on to say
The Art of the Dealbreak 0
David explains why it’s Trump, not Democrats, who bears the responsibility for TSA’s not being funded because of his inability (refusal? ego-driven hostility? maniacal narcissistic aversion to?) to compromise.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels compelled to expel the contents of his portable phallus at a fellow driver.
ICEcapades of the Air, Reprise 0
My old Philly DL friend Noz thinks that Trump’s deploying ICE agents in airports may
Follow the link and decide whether you agree.
Establishmentarians 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Stray Thought 0
I’m so old, I can remember when dances had steps.
Republican Thought Police 0
Apparently, they want to turn (what’s left of) the Voice of America into the Voice of Trump.
American Stasi 0
Rick Strom reports on an ICE agent’s violence against an 62-old man who was filming him as a form of a protest and said agent’s attempts to claim self-defense. (You can read the report in the Chicago Sun-Times.)
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A font of fallacious fakery? You bet your sweet bippy. At the Psychology Today website, Emily Ko discusses the spread of fake content on the inner webs–something that has proliferated thanks to AI bots and warns that we must not allow the algorithm to do our thinking for us.
She makes three main points; follow the link for a detailed exploration them.
- Fake content spreads faster because it triggers strong emotions that elicit quicker responses.
- Biases and social media algorithms combined make people more likely to believe and trust fake content.
- In an AI-driven world, consumers must rely less on social proof and more on critical thinking.
And, while we are on the subject, the Charlotte Observer reports: