: The reason the Founders of the United States of America kept hammering the necessity of vigilance and action by the citizenry of the new nation was precisely because they knew that all man-made systems of every kind get gamed eventually and that efforts to do so begin immediately upon announcement of imminent implementation.

They also knew that, if you will forgive the anachronism, the phone calls always come from inside the house.

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: Hundreds of these kinds of merch ads are on FB and Twitter, and the fist-pump is now the GQP/fascist selfie pose of choice. As predictable as the classified documents case being dismissed. That said, I figured the case'd be dismissed later, like in September, to be closer to Election Day, but she did it to coincide with the "assassination attempt" and the alt-white convention.

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: The Doctor we deserved

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: an oldie but a goodie

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: best Justice League / Superfriends video ever

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: an interview of Richard Burton by Dick Cavett worth watching

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: … I ask quite casually and as a matter, of course, and that make a variety of people perturbed or really, really weirdly defensive. I’m not asking as thought experiment but seriously, the same way I am not Unknown to ask about the safety condition of roller coasters and the side effects and interactions of pharmaceuticals.

It all makes me think of what Malcolm said about science, technology, money, ethics, and lunchboxes at the table in Jurassic Park.

: …accident insurance for the flying cars and robot taxis. Or about armed AI security guards and who’s responsible and what happens to them when they fuck up and injure, maim, or kill people because of mistakes by them.

Is it “caveat emptor”? For companies that make such AI things are the board and personnel personally immune from civil lawsuits for decisions made or not made? Will things become “no fault” since no humans made the mistakes or erred?

These are the kinds of questions that…

: …people. So those of you who started getting them out, pull your claws back in. You should not feel seen or personally attacked, unless of course you are a true utopianist. I used the word “utopianists” for a reason, a very specific reason. I don’t do Pollyannic stuff. That kind of stuff is nice in books and comic books, and cartoons and movies and TV shows and fables, in escapism, but alas, we live in this world, not those. That said, back to futurists.

Nobody ever asks them either about…

: The futurists love to talk about the time when human consciousness is can’t be uploaded into a computer, a virtual reality, and transcend biology. Nobody ever ask them about stuff like Carrington events, hacking, “black boxes” and secret programming back doors, and off switches.

That’s why I don’t take a single one of them seriously at all. They’re just a mech/tech version of utopianists, and I don’t have time for them either.

And no, that is not to say I don’t have time for optimistic…

: ...far superior to Merita, Wonder, and the store brands. Bimbo Bakeries USA is a Fort Worth, TX-based subsidiary of a Mexican-based international bakery company, and when a lot of 'Muricans learn it's a "Mexican brand" and not expensive, they bail.

A colleague of mine , Keith Gamble, thirty years ago put it aptly when asked about the fundamental problem with the bulk of businesses and people in the US. He said, "Greedy muthas."