With all the freaking out about whether AI will replace human endeavor… rarely is it asked “Do we suck? Should the machines take over?” A case can be made. Modern human art vs AI art pic.twitter.com/l6GtepGSi6 — American Ethos (@AmericanaEthos) November 19, 2022 art [ ahrt ] noun the quality, production, expression, or realm,…
Criminals are getting bolder in San Francisco. And why shouldn’t they? The local and state governments have given them the green light. I kinda expect much the same in Illinois when the Purge becomes law here in a couple months. This is what people keep voting for.
You know, NATO MEMBER Poland. Two Polish civilians killed. Strikes put Ukraine in darkness; missiles cross into Poland Everybody got their bombs shelters ready?
Right at one week later, the original Unwanted Blog & the APR Blog have stopped letting me log in. I am not enthusiastic about spending an hour or more on the phone, once again, with tech support on the far side of the planet. Maybe I won’t. Maybe it’s time to let them die. Shrug.
A while back the “Wagner Group” of Russian mercenaries started recruiting Russian criminal prisoners to fight in Ukraine. One such recruit got to Ukraine and apparently promptly surrendered, deciding that he just couldn’t kill Ukrainians. Unfortunately, he was sent back to the Russians as part of a prisoner exchange and turned over to the Wagner…
The B-17 “Texas Raider” was hit by a bell P-63 Kingcobra today at the Wings Over Dallas airshow. Both planes broke apart in midair and crashed.Hard to imagine that anyone on either plane survived. It *almost* looked as if the P-63 aimed at the B-17 (I doubt it could have hit the bomber any worse…
Minneapolis looks like… well, “fun” isn’t really the word. After Fentanyl Floyd died there, the protestors wanted less policing and that’s what they got. Look at the utopia that sprang up. https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1586702110678294533
Back in the Bad Old Days, a whole lot of people were trapped as serfs. While not technically slaves, they kinda were… they were legally trapped onto a particular piece of property and had to work for the landowner (generally some flavor of “nobility”). You could get in a *lot* of trouble if you just…
Further Third Worldification of American cities… You’d think they’d at least try to clean up the area around the White House. Maybe even try to mask the damage caused by the anti-Trump insurrectionists several years ago. Nope.
