Why are we so afraid of AI if we’ve been using it for years?
Geoffrey Hinton caught my attention for He told the BBC Artificial intelligence is an “extinction level threat” to humanity. Hinton is not one to sound the alarm. He is called the “Godfather of AI” because he developed the neural network technology that makes artificial intelligence possible. He is the only person with authority to speak […]
‘We’ve All Had Those Nights’, Talking About Panic Over It ‘Unhelpful’ for Democracy
During Thursday’s MSNBC debate broadcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) fired back at President Joe Biden’s performance, saying, “We’ve all been there. All of us, none of you, the audience, have been there,” and that “we’re not going to turn our backs on one performance.” Newsom also said talk of Democrats panicking over Biden’s performance […]
We’ve Got to Put Decency Above Politics
CNN commentator Adam Kinzinger said on “The Newsroom” Wednesday that he supported President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump because he hoped voters would prioritize civility over political differences. “I think it’s really important that especially what I’d call 20 percent of Haley’s supporters understand that this is a tough choice. This isn’t just […]
United States Lost To Japan In Our Own Game Of Football, And My Oh My, How We’ve Fallen As A Nation
This is 100% inexcusable! The game of football is no longer just an American thing, there are loads of countries nowadays that have national teams for the sport, showing how popular pigskin has become. In fact, they even have youth tournaments in international play, like the U20 World Championships, for example. Nations all around the […]
We’ve Controlled Border, ‘Just Don’t Buy’ Granting Relief Is a Magnet
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Tom Perez, a senior adviser to President Joe Biden, said he doubted the immigration measures the president took earlier in the day would encourage illegal entry. “We need to control the border, and we’ve done that through executive orders,” he said. co-host Mary Louise Kelly asked. [relevant […]
Loved ones of retired LA County deputy missing in Greece baffled by disappearance: ‘We’ve got to find him’
The family of a semi-retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who went missing while vacationing in Greece is working frantically to find him. Albert Carivet, 59, was last seen on June 11, heading out for a four-hour hike on the Greek island of Amorgos, a place he has visited regularly for years, where he had […]
The political earthquake we’ve been waiting for
Finally, it happened. Primary voters finally rose up and ousted a critical mass of one-party Republicans in a Republican-dominated state primary. Combined with mounting vacancies in both houses of the Legislature, the Freedom Caucus and its allies are now the dominant force in the state, poised to change the leadership of the Legislature and pressure […]
Trump, Covid, the climate crisis – we’ve had a hard few years. The wounds linger | Rebecca Solnit
pictureEverything has gone wrong, and everyone is doomed. This is perhaps the greatest and most unrecognized truth of life right now in the United States and much of the rest of the world. The pandemic, eight years of the Trump administration, the distortions, confusion and corruption spread by Silicon Valley, and other looming threats, including […]
We’ve ‘Done an Extraordinary Job’ Dealing with Migration
In a segment of an interview with CBS News immigration and political correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez conducted last Thursday and published Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Biden administration has “done an extraordinary job dealing with unprecedented levels of migration,” but that the unprecedented levels of migration are due to other factors. Mayorkas responded […]
We’ve got a big problem in Wisconsin
Let me tell you about a little bird I spoke to recently because what he told me was like a canary in the coal mine when it comes to the November presidential election. He’s a hardcore right-winger and has absolutely no “Donald Trump walking tiptoe through the raindrops” cult. He supported Ron DeSantis in the […]