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A “useful genius” Wiktionary says “useful idiot” is a derogatory term meaning “one who unwittingly supports a malignant cause through naive attempts to be a force for good.”

In a LinkedIn post recently, Ethan Mollick wrote, the following statement.

Recent “AI” hype Since the introduction of the Large Language Model (LLM), the pace of new tools and technologies has been breathtaking.

An article at countercurrents.org said this recently: «A new study has warned that if global temperatures rise more than 1.5°C, significant crop diversity could be lost in many regions» —Global Warming and Food Security: The Impact on Crop Diversity Are we

Inextricably Intertwined Traditionally, business and politics have been separable in LinkedIn, but their overlap since November is far too substantive and immediate for that fiction to be further entertained.

We are surrounded by too much helpful AI trying to insinuate itself into our lives.

A story recently by Rebecca Beitsch in The Hill quotes Attorney General Pam Bondi saying something about the García deportation case that has me particularly furious.

“First They Came” | ”Als sie kamen” by Martin Niemöller There's been a lot of erosion of US democracy lately.

I often hear people say that Social Security should be eliminated, that we'd do better with our own 401K's.

Be wary of the statement “Government needs to be run like a business.”

In case you've been off the grid for a few days and somehow missed it, everyone is reeling over these remarks by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick: “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month.

Not How or When, but Why I'm not a fan of the thing presently marketed as “AI” I side with Chomsky's view of it as “high-tech plagiarism” and Emily Bender's characterization of it as a “stochastic parrot”.

A certain well-known politician has quite a regular practice of accusing his political opposition of offenses that are more properly attributed to him.

I am unforgiving of GOP Congressional cowardice.

Given that people aren't always mindful about what they do, sometimes almost preferring that people make suggestions they can just passively agree to, it's quite a responsibility to make really casual choices sometimes.

My friend Probyn Gregory has been writing about his nervousness being near the fires in LA.

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Martin Tye wrote in a post on the ex-bird site: "Scale of demand" is the key component of #Sustainability.

I want to bookmark and celebrate a particular interchange in the conversation from a recent town hall that featured Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney together.

Spoiler Warning: I'm going to speak of the ending of a certain fairy tale here, so if it's something you've waited your whole live to read, you'll want to stop when it's mentioned and go read it before continuing on.

I needed a graphic for another of my posts, so I asked an “AI” (really just a Large Langugage Model, or LLM).

Version 2 by Kent M Pitman Once player loads, click “Play” to hear this poem read by the author.

It's in the news that Trump is “exhausted,” and that's supposedly why he's been canceling appearances.

I don't believe in “Green AI.”

This observation by David Roberts helped me crystalize some thoughts.