Are we choosing our programming carefully or letting others program us?
How are we programming ourselves today?
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Sometimes I think the adults are the lazy ones.
Read MoreZeynep Tufekci says the first AI paperclip maker to hurt humanity is making us click on ads
Zeynep Tufekci from her Ted Talk "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads"
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Get rid of all the guns
Read MoreIts all about hate
Ta-Nehisi Coates tells it like it is in the Atlantic "The First White President" . Its very well articulated and fully agrees with an earlier post. White America says it isn't racist, but it certainly acts that way. One interesting thing is a short comment from a Russian about how this makes the country susceptible to many problems.
“ In a recent New Yorker article, a former Russian military officer pointed out that interference in an election could succeed only where “necessary conditions” and an “existing background” were present. In America, that “existing background” was a persistent racism, and the “necessary condition” was a black president.”
Republican policy is now being driven as the reverse of what Obama or any Liberal did - it has nothing to do with what might be good for the country, and that has now been the case for the last decade.
Hopefully I can have normal posts about Math and running away from homework soon.
And the UK could listen to some people who know what they are doing too...
Quarterly growth in UK GDP per head - Simon Wren-Lewis
Read MoreHow a lack of curiosity can kill a country.
The United States government is being destroyed by neglect and a complete lack of interest in what it does.
Read MoreThe source of Republican crazy in the US
Here is via Lawyers Guns and Money, a paragraph from a New York Times article describing the right wing hate today: “The idea that moral hypocrisy hurts you among evangelical voters is not true, if you’re sound on all of the fundamentals,” said Wayne Flynt, an ordained Baptist minister and one of Alabama’s pre-eminent historians. “Being sound on the fundamentals depends on what the evangelical community has decided the fundamentals have become. At this time, what is fundamental is hating liberals, hating Obama, hating abortion and hating same-sex marriage.”
Lets focus on the key sentence:
The Rush Limbaugh's, the fox news, the rest of AM talk radio, the white supremacists, the Koch brothers, the tax dogers, the Grover Norquists wanting to drown American government in a bathtub, the anti women, anti intellectual, anti education, anti black, anti healthcare, anti retirement anti commonsense, anti everything - The entire party is all now about hate. The fact that no one wants to admit this in decent company means that have to lie in public all the time, but in the policies proposed in republican state houses, and in the republican house, senate and white house the details are now all their for anyone to see.
What our allies in Australia think of the current US administration.
He managed to isolate his nation, to confuse and alienate his allies, and to diminish America...
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