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Jake:

Well, if there were a barfly who brought up Adam Smith’s Capitalist condemnation of slavery and contrasts it with George Fitzhugh’s defense of slavery in semi-Feudalistic, semi-Communistic terms, that person would earn the bottomless bar tab and an orgy with the whole bar.

And if AI could do this unprompted, it would earn Overlord status,…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

Ackshuyally, Jenny McCarthy is a Large Language Model. It’s just that her Language, especially on vaccines, is Largely beyond her bird bath depth. 😁

Reg:

Wouldn’t AI in Einstein’s time have also held to all the assumptions of all the previous giants in Physics and Cosmology? Would AI independently question those assumptions?

Reg:

Inside RFK Jr.’s push to dismantle decades of U.S. vaccine policy.

The latest news about Erica Schwartz and her hearing in Washington, DC is just flat-out disturbing!

This woman Erica Schwartz has spent her entire life in Medicine and in service to the nation in the U.S. Armed Forces literally breathing, e…[Read more]

Reg:

World of Woo: When and why some people trust fame more than evidence.

It’s been with us for a while, at least 1985:

At least back then, people attached humor to this ad slogan. With wellness influencer culture, the ad slogan is now a serious qualification.

There is this interesting paper on the subject of how AI can make people lazy:

https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13544

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Of course, Einstein would have used AI. Using it does not mean outsourcing critical thought.

I think there is no way Einstein could have come up with his theories if he used AI to do his thinking.  AI summarises things well; but that means it only comes up with clichés.  It doesn’t do any original thinking, beyond su…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Well, here’s the source of the cyclosporiasis:

Perhaps automated harvesting robots that don’t produce and spread feces and it’s pathogens, along with sterile sources of water, would be a big help here. Give AI something really useful to do, combined with sensors and robotics.

Meanwhile hold the…[Read more]

Jake:

Well, at least now you know you read a book that’s even better than you thought.

And people resisting Islam in the Islamic world have yet another work to add to their arsenal.

Jake:

Oh, Jake! You have yet another great reason to read the work again!

One Thousand and One Nights is an originally Eighth to Fourteenth Century work of resistance to tyranny and misogyny that hailed from the Islamic world and prevailed despite Islam!

This work combines and compiles many types of literature (even Science-Fiction and, as…[Read more]

Reg:

Reading Dubliners as a ‘wee lad’ is an achievement.

This work isn’t a big run-on sentence is it? 😉😁

Jake:

As a kid i really enjoyed stories from 1001 Arabian Nights. Pretty sure some of those would come right back.

Did your teachers or parents teach the back-story of why Sherherazade told her 1000 Tales? More than a collection of kid’s stories, it was an act of resistance and survival, still an inspiration and possible useful tactic for the…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

I’m in NC, down South from all of this, but on Independence Night, I experienced a sample of what’s going on in The Great White North. That night, I smelled burnt gunpowder and paper and smoky air the whole drive home from work, all caused from the fireworks.

I later heard Trump’s fireworks made D.C. air quality the worst…[Read more]

Jake:

Judge Roy K “Bean” Altman’s book would not be for the die-hard “Free Palestine” crowd. They’ll need stronger stuff, like maybe Douglas Murray Tours, whose ad slogan is: “Have You Beeeeen?”

The book would be for those on the fence who could be turned from this dismal losing position.

Jake:

Gonna be interesting to see whether this puts the nail in the Tbell. Trex came first and now…?

T. Rex died from self-inflicted smoking. Just refer to cartoonist Gary Larson’s The Far Side for irrefutable proof.

I remember when tylenol had there little issue and they survived. How would you as a CEO or high mucky muck a…

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Jake and All Fellow Unbelievers:

A fantastic review of what sounds like a great book, Israel On Trial by Judge Roy K. Altman!

The fact-free, evidence-free Romanticism of the “Pro-Palestine” crowd is not just a threat to Israel and Jews, but ultimately to the whole Enlightenment Experiment.

The War on Israel by Tal…[Read more]