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The video with Jason Stanley on Amanpour referred to a Guardian article on the topic of how the Trump admin wants to define university policies and practices. As Enco notes, they can do this when they have powers of the purse. (Yo MAGA, the left may have set the scene, but you made governmental interference inevitable.)

Excerpt from the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Is it just me or is AI art deliberately formulaic and creepy?

LLMs and AI algorithms are designed by humans, and source data gathered from the internet that humans created and maintain. I.e. that’s where any formulae and creepiness would be originally coming from, with a dose of whatever unexpected weirdness might come…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Reg, Is it just me or is AI art deliberately formulaic and creepy? All the AI visual art that I’ve seen looks like art in The Watchtower or a H.R. Giger painting! That work above looks like a panel from Jack Chick if he did illusrated nursery stories like he did his religious tracts. YEEECH!

Oh yeah…creepy as fuck b…[Read more]

How exciting. During his third term we can parade our “Jesus missiles” across DC and round up all the pesky godless atheists and gays. We will shut down Ford and Chevy so we can all drive “Teslurs”.

Our brave spiritual leader:

Truely dumber than a box of hammers.

Trump is floating a third term. The thing is that that’s a practical impossibility without executing an illegal coup. Here’s the legal way of getting a third term by amending the Constitution:

An amendment can be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Alternatively, two-thirds of the state legislatures…[Read more]

I am liking the new artistic upgrade to Chatgpt.

I asked it to generate a picture in the style of Ralph Steadman as per below;

I had chicken once. Tastes like possum.

Thanks, Reg!!

Have a great week!

Due to work getting in the way of life, today’s post is curtailed.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
In other words, it takes more than just making stupid noises on EuroVision or not furnishing the apartment for me to use the term: “Fascist.”

Same here, actually. And using that word lowers his credibility, imo, while I guess I took advantage of the clickbait opportunity when I posted it here.

However, I’m not con…[Read more]

The concept of “government free” free market is so cute. The drive for any company is always to monopolize, crush start-ups, control pricing and optimize profit over any and all social, environmental, or human welfare concerns. As an engineering manager with a 20 million annual budget working on a 250-million-dollar project; I was high enough to…[Read more]

Wondering if all of this slashing of services and tariff waring will actually result in tax cuts for what is left of the middle class. I doubt it will be more than a token break. It is the upper middle working class that carries the burden. People such as doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants who get a W2 and honest small business owners as…[Read more]

Robert: The country is chock full of “single issue” voters who align with one party or the other. I do not agree that hating Jews or supporting Hamas is “liberal” or “left”.

Classical liberalism. Agreed. Classical liberals i think are more apt to see a thing for what it is. They will be aghast at the sex slavery, FGM, absence of rights for…[Read more]