Don't Get Cocky

 Michelle Wolf on the Day After The Blue Wave

Low key sarcasm.  

I am happy with the election results.  Very pleased indeed.  Although on a friend's FB wall, I made a comparison to where the Union Army was after the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.  We have the high ground.  But the scum will come at us tomorrow.  So.  Don't get cocky my comrades.

OK.  I went over to the Owl's blog to give myself an excuse to mention her and tag her in this.  She is my odd duck canary in the coal mine.  She doesn't love djt, but operates under several delusions about him:

That is thinking he smarter than a bucket of snot.  That he can ever be trusted to tell the truth,  That he isn't the, by far, absolutely and objectively worst POTUS of her life.

Anyway.  She did not post about the election results per se.  She did post about JD  . . . white supremacist married to a brown woman . . .  Vance's after defeat post, on X.   Who himself is in denial.  For what ever reason, the scumbag Republicans who are willing to deal with the reality of the loss keep on blaming the loss on the Iran war.  But  I did a net search and it was the economic issues.  As I said elsewhere:

Want to get a negative reaction from people? Fuck with their money!

Other things can trigger an emotional response. But fuck with their money, and people will turn on yo' ass.

Her own comments missed that part.  Like I said above.  She isn't a real djt lover.  She isn't maga.  Publicly at least.  But she either has a delusional view of him, and or just fails to grasp the obvious.

Fuck Politics!

 I used my VBM ballot, late last week, but deposited it in a drop box. Because the USPS is sus.   I checked with the county clerk on line, and it has been accepted.  So I have noting to do about this election . . .  unless I volunteer to do something on election day, save avoid the fucking ads.

So here.  This.

Point Well Made

 We had the disgusting news about emotionally and likely biochemically unwell Sec of Defense wanting to do this, last week, to a not white man. By way of a firing squad instead of rope and tree.  But a lynching is a lynching no matter the method of killing.

 And we start this week with ICE raiding the home of a Black Democratic Congresswoman.

And so many mother fucking Republicans want to believe Jim Crow is a relic of the past?

Even if that were the case, and it isn't.  It's at best the too near past.  But Ok.  It's not as prevalent as it was 100 years ago.

It's still part of life in America.  Anyone who disagrees can just choke on their own tongue, for all I care.

The Owl Being Dishonest, By Omission.

 Not spreading lies but being dishonest by omission.  To explain.  She was blogging about an article about the climate change case before SCOTUS.  

Her remarks about a quote in the article that comes from a full on CHUD. Right Wing lunatic.  Teaches at Scalia Law School.  Went to Dartmouth.  And the quote isn't even a reply to a reporter's question, but from some webinar he gave sometime ago.  I'll do a copy paste of the text, but the image is how it looks right now.  Things on the web are often fluid:

"ADDED: The NYT quotes lawprof Todd J. Zywicki: "What this case is about is a bunch of one-percenter hippies in Boulder County who want to tell the rest of us how we have to live."   

At least she gave her viewers a guest link.  Here is the fuller context:

"The companies and their supporters argue that lawsuits like Boulder’s are an attempt to regulate the fossil fuel industry via litigation instead of through laws passed by Congress. As Todd J. Zywicki, a professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, put it in a recent webinar: “What this case is about is a bunch of one-percenter hippies in Boulder County who want to tell the rest of us how we have to live.”

Context matters.  I am not going to accuse the Owl of deliberately out of bias hiding the context, and blatantly biased POV of the law prof.  But hey.  Properly lumping in professor CHUD with the other anti environment forces of evil, is different than letting it look like it's some random, disinterested legal expert.

While I am giving notes.  The NYT didn't do a thorough enough job identifying the CHUD.  He's not exactly a well known name even among members of the bar.  Even if it was a legal luminary like Tribe.  You still should identify him beyond where he works.  He does have a rep.  Don't assume all readers know it.

So yeah.  It's not personal for me.  I see bullshit.  I call bullshit.

The Owl vs My Low Level STEM Guy Analysis

 This time I get to call out the owl for her own words.  She was responding to some serious and doom and gloom article over at The Nation about AI.  Her words:

"How can that heavy-handed fear mongering not make a reader skeptical?"  

And my thinking is what the hell is wrong with her?  The quick answer is near illiteracy in and ignorance of basic STEM issues and thinking.  Before I list my meager qualifications.  I should say that over the last few days I have saying, writing things about the spectre of:

"Systemic failure in interdependent systems."

And I did a net searach instead of just ripping it off the top of my head:

Systemic failure in interdependent systems occurs when the failure of one component triggers a chain reaction of failures across interconnected networks. This can lead to significant disruptions in critical infrastructures like power, transportation, and finance.

So now is the part where I explain why my mind so easily goes to that kind of thinking.  I used to be a theatre technician;  basically an operating engineer.  Not the same as a design engineer.  But some machinery and technology requires knowing more than turning something on and operating it. Some are parts of interconnected networks;  like the sum total of all the electrical and electronic, and computers used to light a medium sized theatre stage.  And before I left that career for law school, I was there doing that when computer lighting controls were just getting advanced enough they were making specific computers for that job.  

And then I went to a law school with a specialty program in Intellectual Property Law. And the origin story of that school is, it was originally supposed to be part of MIT. But  . . .  reasons.

And I was able enough to keep up with the engineers in that program.  Thinking of things like systemic failure in interdependent systems used to be part of my job.  And then I learned the field of law where being able to think in those terms was pretty much a necessity.  So yeah.  Skepticism is not always a function of ignorance.  But sometimes it is.  

I won't go long on AI, but I will say this much.  People should not be afriad beacuse of the chance AI will become self aware.  It's powerful enough to wreak havoc just because of it's capabilities.  Be afraid of that.  It's really like this.  And I searched to be certain before I posted it at the first place I posted it.  AI is actually worse than a mere computer virus.  It's more like a worm.  It meets the definition of a worm that if a particularly nasty one gets loose . . . . there is definitely a risk of a

Systemic failure in interdependent systems where the failure of one component in one sub network may trigger a chain reaction of failures across interconnected networks. That may lead to significant disruptions in critical infrastructures like power, transportation, and finance.

In other words, some calamity that really can fuck shit up on a global scale.  Anyone who understands systems understand that much.

For years I have called the Owl racist adjacent

Because commenters on her blog routinely throw up white supremancist, right wing shit like the following.  And she leaves it up.  The quote is so replllant it seems worse than what Hasan Piker was criticized over, and on a par with the white supremacist, hateful shit, that chud Laura Loomer recently said.

So before I even quote it, I 100% denounce it as hate speech:

"White Leftists and Islamic theocratic supremacist leftists are arrogant bigots and racists.

It is their basic nature."

I repeat bcause it is so repellant and revolting,  I 100% denounce it as hate speech.

I can go months without looking at her blog.  I can go longer without looking at her comment sections  because, she routinely leaves up, the white supremacist, hateful shit her white supremacist commenters put up.

I don't know how many people still look there.  Seems to me blogging is dead.  Long live Substack.  I guess???

Oh.  While I am bothering to be bothered. The initial post had to do with white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance.  (I don't care who is making his children.  Racist plantation owners made bi-racial babies, while still being racists.)  Apparently, candidate Dr. El-Sayed made a very strong inference that  white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance's grandparents might not approve of his East Indian wife, and bi-racial children.  And  white supremacist, hateful shitbag JD Vance's reply was, of all frames:  

'Keep my wife's name the hell out of your mouth'

Funny, how the white man goes all in with the Black vernacular, trying to sound tough.  But more hilarious is the idiotic rhetorical trick he is attempting to play.  The quote was more about the assumed racist grandparents, than the wife.  This is the same sort of idiotic rhetorical trick the maggots used over the quote about adjudicated rapist in a civil trial, djt, and his likely wanting to tap his young pretty assistant's ass, than was about his assistant and her desires.  Who is certifiable insane.  For all we know, she might have fantasies about having her ass tapped by the fat racist with, allegely, a tiny mushroom.

I can't go any further with the image.  

Point is, using the object of the sentence as if it were the  subject.  Just to go all Karen on someone's ass  and complain.  Are any of these fuckers fluent in English?

 

The Lesson Has Wide Application.

 Definitions are important. Meanings have meaning. Delusions make people look ignorant because. Ignorance is not knowing shit. Like definitions and meanings.