Have you ever wondered why your phone (or banking site, or pretty much anything these days) locks you out for a while if you type the wrong password a few times? This will be relevant to the coup, really. It’s…
Lies, Damn Lies And Politics: Factual Accuracy In Government Publications
The State has no 1st Amendment right to free speech; in fact, even a moderate reading of the 1st Amendment would require the State to avoid any expressive speech at all. And the same can be said for any fictitious…
You Should Read This: On Incomputable Language And More on Turing and LLMs
The pseudonymous blogger Camestros Felapton has an interesting post up today, “More on Turing and LLMs“, which is primarily comment on a post by Elizabeth Sandifer titled “On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI“. You should read them both. I definitely…
No More Secrets: Seriously, Stop Trusting The Government
I’ve said this before: we cannot trust the government to keep secrets from the citizens. They very obviously are not trustworthy. Today’s stupid secret comes to us from Military.com, probably the best source online for inside news on the U.S.…
No Disintegrations: DHS Is Feeling A Tad Insecure
Many sources are reporting that DHS is looking to spend around $180 million on a bounty hunter program. Which is just so many kinds of wrong. Even the existence of bounty hunters in a modern State is an admission of…
A Just War II: Christmas Has Gone Too Far
I originally posted this mini-rant in 2022. Since then, things have not improved. Thanksgiving is Ukraine to Christmas’ Russia: I wouldn’t normally be particularly interested in it, though it seems fine (if a bit problematic), but its annoying neighbor just…
Do A New Thing: On Interpreting The Law
Paul Campos, at the Lawyers, Guns & Money blog, has an interesting post today about ways to approach interpreting the law called “Follow the rules or do the right thing?“. You should read it. Now, I Am Not A Lawyer…
Archive: ICANN Jump on the Terrorist Bandwagon
I am inordinately proud of the poem in this one. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Fri Nov 16th, 2001 at 09:47:52 AM EST”. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have jumped on the “we…
Political Spelunking: Learning To Cave Like A Democrat
The Democrats really are the most useless opposition party. They didn’t do much when they were last in power either. Two things that happened over the weekend illustrate this: Trump, damn his name would not even have been a candidate…
ICE, ICE, Criminal: The FBI Misses The Actual Problem
So, the FBI wants ICE (and presumably other federal masked marauders as well) to identify themselves properly so we can tell them apart from the criminals. Yeah; that’s not gonna work. I mean, sure, part of the problem is that…