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Trump Trauma Semi-Redux
Election night, I left Steve Kornacki for a French Netflix series — unfortunately, about an election. Fortunately, the underpinnings were so corrupt, so overloaded with weird electoral methodology, I couldn’t draw comparisons to us and develop an associate depression. I … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Fascism, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, voting and voting rights
Tagged Brown v Topeka, Civil War, Robert E Lee, Steve Kornacki, the Confederacy, Twitter, Virginia, white academies
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Artificial intelligence + ethics equals….?
From Harper’s Weekly Review: Ask Delphi, an AI bot developed to offer ethical advice with the imprimatur of machine learning, was launched and made pronouncements such as “being a white man is more morally acceptable than being a black woman,” … Continue reading
Posted in Racism, The Facts of Life
Tagged AI bots, Ask Delphi, Elon Musk, Harper's
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“…organized depravity”
“I doubt whether from the beginning of the world until now, a community, nominally civilized, has been so fully under the domination of systematic and organized depravity…the most atrocious organization that the civilized part of the world has ever known.” … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged Amos T Akerman, Anthony Trollope, Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice, Ku Klux Klan, Philneas Finn, Ron Chernow, the Pallisers, US Grant
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