Open thread 2/20/23
Barry’s chest voice is so resonant here. Listen with headphones:
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Why I don’t read novels anymore
This article claims that giving up novel-reading can be a sign of senility: Fiction, on the other hand, requires you to exercise your memory, as you proceed from beginning to end and retain a variety of details, characters and plots. … Continue reading →
Chatbots Gone Wild – haven’t we already seen a movie about this?
Or maybe several movies? It’s not very reassuring: In a blog post Wednesday night, Bing said it was working to fix the confusing answers and aggressive tone exhibited by the bot, after tech outlets exposed that the bot gaslights and … Continue reading →
Andrew Sullivan: the trans activist movement for children is a movement against gays
It also exploits and physically damages or even mutilates many minors with multiple mental health problems. Sullivan is correct on that. Actually, it has been apparent for a long time. In fact, Sullivan is rather late to the game: What … Continue reading →
Open thread 2/18/23
An unusually jocund Leonard Cohen:
Continue reading →The continuing war on DeSantis – waged by elements of the right
I’ve written before about the campaign to discredit DeSantis waged by Trump and a number of what might be called EverTrumpers or OnlyTrumpers. It augurs an internal fight on the right that could lead to defeat in 2024 even without … Continue reading →
COVID and natural immunity
Now it can be told, apparently: Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say, that’s on par with … Continue reading →
The MSU shooter…
…doesn’t fit the preferred leftist narrative. So – down the memory hole he goes.
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Heart attack rise in young people
Yes, there’s been a rise in heart attacks in the young. I’ve yet to see a really good analysis of why, and I don’t plan to sit on a hot stove till I do. But one shouldn’t minimize the effects … Continue reading →
Home again
I got home very late last night. The flight was good and even got in early, weather here was unseasonably mild, and I’m not too jet-lagged. Things still seem rather surreal. Here’s my question, though. For the last five years … Continue reading →
RIP Raquel Welch
Although Welch was 82 when she died, somehow the news is still a surprise. Everybody of a certain age – and even some who are younger – knows that poster with the famous deerskin bikini. It was her body – … Continue reading →