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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

A shill for suckers? The EFF reports that

Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions.

Details at the link.

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Raw Materials 0

Methinks sportswriter extraordinaire Bob Molinaro might be onto somthing:

Thursday night NFL matchups, when teams have only four days between games, reveal how much Roger Goodell and the owners actually care about the health of players.

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Aghast and Furryous 0

Thom marvels at Tommy Tuberville’s freakish–one could even say pervy–fixation on furries (then veers into a discussion of how trickle-on economics is eroding the economy).

It’s been a while, but I used to fly the fiendly skies regularly on business. I can attest that I never saw a furry in the cockpit or the galley, or. for that matter, in the passenger compartment.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

This “responsible gun owner” had a pocketful of politeness.

The incident happened on the night of September 15th at Señor Bird’s Tacos & Tequila Bar on West Washington Street when Clayton County Superior Court Judge Aaron B. Mason reportedly reached into his pocket for his wallet to pay for dinner and the Glock 27 pistol went off as he removed his hand.

Three people suffered minor injuries when struck by tile debris from the bullet impacting the floor,

One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.

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American Stasi 0

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump maladministration needs to improve the conditions in its concentration camps detention centers. Here’s a bit from the news report:

In a blistering 127-page opinion, Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan said the inhumane treatment violated the Constitution, “not to mention any decent concern for the Golden Rule or the demands of humanity.”

“Make no mistake, decisions about immigration and related enforcement policies are largely committed to the political branches of our government – Congress and the Executive, not the courts. But there are limits. The Constitution demands humane treatment of everyone in government custody. It requires that they receive due process of law. And it limits the Executive to enforcing the laws that Congress has enacted rather than doing whatever it wishes,” Kaplan wrote.

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Fly the Fiendly Skies 0

They get fiendlier every day.

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QOTD 0

Plutarch:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Warning: Mild language.

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Members Only . . . . 0

Republican Elephant says to woman reporter,

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This New Gilded Age 0

Robert Reich finds a straw at which to grasp.

The most potent force in American politics is anti-establishment fury at a system seen as rigged against average working people. AI has become Exhibit A.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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Hoist on His Own Party’s Petard 0

As my old professor of the Early Federal Period was fond of saying, “Hstory is irony.”

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

More courtesy on the concrete.

We are a broken society.

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“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0

Jim Hightower hears a rhyme that sounds awfully like “red scare redux.”

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*Mark Twain.

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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0

An accessory after the fact? How about taking a peek under the coverup.

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QOTD 0

Eric Sevareid:

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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The Man Who Would Be King 0

Donald Trump says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Bread and Circuses, Reprise 0

At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi muses on what the word “great” seems to mean to Trump and the Trumpettes. A snippet (emphasis added):

What historically had made America great was its pursuit of its ideals of justice and equality for all; its generosity to the downtrodden and oppressed of the world; its respect for the sovereignty of others, and its support for democracy in the world.

But these first principles have been deflated by Trump’s inflated idea of “great.” His idea of great is a big, gaudy spectacle.

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The Art of the Steal 0

Mary Trump follows the money.

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Consider the Source 0

Man and woman sitting at table.  He's reading a newspaper with the headline,

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