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Monday links

  • The latest idiocy from academia: You may suffer from cognitive privilege. In other words, if you’re not stupid, shame on you! Your very existence is unfair to the dumbasses of the world. (H/T DB)
  • Donald Trump: The salesman who can’t close the deal.
  • Life wasn’t a quirk of biology, says a controversial theory. It was an inevitability of physics.
  • Yo. Whassup with Ford and all this weed?
  • Whassup in Baltimore is that the city has dropped nearly three dozen gun and drug cases after three cops were caught on camera planting evidence.
  • Some pretty cool science will be conducted during the coming total eclipse.
  • We know exercise can lessen inflammation. Here’s how, in case you’ve wondered.
  • F*c*b**k showed some sense for a change and shut down an AI project that was developing its own language. (The system was programmed to use English. The new language was Englishy, but with a unique grammar. Wonder how long it would have take for Skynet’s communications to have become unintelligible to us?) (H/T MJR)
  • In Seattle, apparently, if you are being paid for sex, it cannot possibly be consensual. Srsly. Now, think about how that rule would apply to all other human activities.
  • Genius street art.

10 Comments

  1. matthewsmaynard
    matthewsmaynard July 31, 2017 12:05 pm

    I don’t suffer from cognitive privilege, I enjoy every minute of it.

  2. Bear
    Bear July 31, 2017 12:07 pm

    So if you pay for sex, that’s rape. I see. So…

    If I pay for a box of toothpicks in a store, that’s theft?

    And that”controversial theory” of life just sounds like a rephrasing of the Anthropic principle, which has been around for at 56 years.

  3. jed
    jed July 31, 2017 1:04 pm

    Remember when the Ford Probe was supposedly a “vehicle of choice” for drug runners, due to the ease of creating hidden compartments?

    @Bear: Seems it must be coupled to “leisure”. Besides which, I assume you pick your own teeth, and not someone else’s. However, if picking your teeth is a leisure activity, then you should be wary of visiting a hygienist.

  4. Bear
    Bear July 31, 2017 1:22 pm

    Jed, a better example: Paying for sex is rape. Paying for web site admin is… slavery?

  5. R. L. Wurdack
    R. L. Wurdack July 31, 2017 1:32 pm

    Great art.

  6. david
    david July 31, 2017 2:03 pm

    *Cognitive privilege – the next step in evolution? Apparently so.

    *Can’t close the deal? Give that reporter a Tootsie Pop for a very creative but totally bogus hatchet piece.

    *Life as a result of thermodynamics may never be proven. Right now it seems its only a theory of the mechanics of chemical reactions. Kind of like the ‘Bi-cameral mind’ being responsible God – remember that theory?

    *I’m going out tomorrow to buy a Ford Doober, right off the train. Heck with paying Ford….

    * Baltimore. Quelle suprise! Too bad they published how these guys got caught – there goes any future citizen protection from cameras anywhere.

    *The heck with science. I just wanna get under the ‘full dark’ zone. My next chance won’t be for another 250 years or so!

    *I’m happy to read about exercise and inflammation. It might help motivate me to work thru all the injuries’ pain and stiffness. Thanks for posting this one, Claire.

    *I’m willing to bet F*c*B**k won’t keep it shut down. They didn’t mention destroying the system. Shut down may only mean ‘put to a nap’. Most likely they’re shopping it to government somewhere. To…(Queue Church Lady!) …Russia maybe?

    * Seattle “Officers from the King County Sheriff’s Office and the Bellevue Police Department made months’ worth of undercover visits to them before raiding the K-Girl “brothels” in January.” I wonder how their wives, children and lovers feel about them forcing these women into sex with public tax dollars. Looks like a pretty fine ‘blue line’ again, maybe dotted this time. Maybe a broken line. How did they know these women were hooking if they didn’t partake? Or entice the women with money? Since when is it OK for a cop to be a human trafficker as the prosecutor alleges?

    * The Street art is very imaginative. I wish I thought of stuff like that, but I’m not ‘cognitively privileged’ in an artistic way! (Ba-da-dumpf! See what I did there? HA!)

  7. jc2k
    jc2k July 31, 2017 5:36 pm

    I realized years ago (I think I was on ‘shrooms) that life exists to consume energy and it evolves to consume greater and greater amounts of energy.

  8. david
    david July 31, 2017 7:20 pm

    So, you’re saying Rosie O’Donnell is more highly evolved than, for example, Cameron Diaz? Wow, dude, that’s heavy….

  9. Jim B.
    Jim B. July 31, 2017 9:18 pm

    Just learned about eleutherophobia today. Seems to be something that’s in the water in Washington D.C. and L.A.

  10. Comrade X
    Comrade X August 1, 2017 7:35 am

    On that salesman article; if this is what winning is like I sure don’t want to find out what losing is like.

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