The Rule of Lawless 0
Reuters runs the numbers:
The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal.
More numbers at the link.
Trumpled Olympians 0
Mary Trump discusses how American Olympic athletes have pushed back against Donald Trump’s attach on one of their own for having the unmitigated gall to exercise his freedom of speech and express an unfavorable opinion of the Trumpling.
Facebook Frolics 0
The EFF looks at the Zuckerborg’s latest assimilation strategy–enabling facial recogntion in its “smart” glasses–and explains why its a very bad no good stinking idea. Here’s a bit from their article:
Follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk has a rather disturbing notion as to what is behind the Republican thought police’s efforts to whitewash America’s history.
The Establishmentarian and the Nine Commandments 0
I guess he is leaving out the one about “bearing false witness.”
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and the Trump maladministration is all for the day when Richmond, Virginia, will once more be a beachfront.
I fear for my grandchildren.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Guns and whiskey, guns and whiskey.
Don’t mix them together when you’re feeling frisky,
Because if you do, my brother,
You’ll let yourself in for a spot of bother.
One more time, “responsible gun owner” is an oxymoron.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Corrosive? At the Psychology Today website, Cornelia C. Walther reports that “(r)esearch found that AI improved efficiency while eroding underlying expertise and agency.”
To put it another way, relying on AI to do our thinking for us may make us dumber.
Just Deserts 0
Warning: Mild language.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Bloomberg’s Max Hasting hears a rhyme:
I cheated by putting my first sentence above in the present tense. These words were, in fact, written in July 1914 by Germany’s Albert Hopman, about Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Follow the link for the rhyme.
(Broken link unbroken.)
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
At SFgate, a report of the purging of the history of the Blackfeet people at Glacier National Park contains this nugget (emphasis added);
Methinks an edit is called for and that this phrasing more accurately describes what’s going on here:
- They want to “restore truth and sanity to American history” as long as the truth does not “disparage white, racist Americans past or living.”
The Bad Bunny Hop, Reprise 0
Sam and the crew dissect what MAGA’s furor over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl tells us about the culture war mongers.