Notes
These short posts include "asides" from the my original blogs, a sample of "tweets" from Twitter, and more recently are often syndicated to my Fediverse profile.
Germany, of all nations, should be keenly aware of the dangers of forgetting state attrocities. So it’s especially upsetting to see Berlin supporting Japan’s effort to censor history and remove memory of the ianfu. https://www.theleftberlin.com/berlin-mayor-insists-on-removing-statue-for-victims-of-sexual-slavery/
I’m old enough to remember when voting for local offices required researching the candidates because you couldn’t count on whether the Democrat or the Republican was the batshit crazy one.
I’m very tempted to approach the creators of inTouch and ask how much it would cost to influence “parents” to vote or subscribe to crypto schemes.
Today we observe that the Israeli state under Netanyahu has spent a full year “defending itself” by killing a child every 48 minutes.
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about, now the mushrooms are building a robot army.
Unfortunately, it seems that today’s big LLMs are more like physicists than philosophers. Rather than more knowledge improving their awareness of their own ignorance, it only makes them more cocksure about knowing everything.