March 17, 2017

logging in got message the connection was not secure

Something new from Firefox. Should I be worried?
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Protect-your-privacy/Insecure-password-warning-in-Firefox/ta-p/27861

March 11, 2017

Did you hear the funny on Wait, Wait this morning?

cracked me up
"Steve Bannon looks like AIDS came down with a person."

March 9, 2017

Politics won't matter much when we have government by robot

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170309-the-last-things-that-will-make-us-uniquely-human

...Driving once seemed to be a very human skill. But we said that about chess, too. Then a computer beat the human world champion, repeatedly. The strategy board game Go took over from chess as the litmus test for human thinking; until 2016, when a computer bested one of the world’s leading professional Go players. IBM’s Watson aced Jeopardy – another supposedly human domain – in 2011, and is now dividing its time between identifying cancerous moles and cooking up creative recipes, among other things.

With computers conquering what used to be deeply human tasks – those that require knowledge, strategy, even creativity – what will it mean in the future to be human?

March 6, 2017

Is this the place to ask if DU got hacked?

You went off the net for maybe an hour. Called my IT guy and he couldn't open your site either.
Just tried again, and here you are. Thank goodness.

March 3, 2017

Publish a list of the ways Americans are being skinned alive

Tell people the Environmental Protection Agency is being wiped out and Twitler supporters say "so what". Why not, instead, publish a list that is personal and simple enough for those a burger short of a whopper. It would be a shockingly long list and might...might...have more impact than political arguments.
IN YOUR NAME: (or something)
1. Your pet's food will no longer be inspected for poisons.
2. Asian carp will eat the native fish you want to catch in the Great Lakes.
3. Coal dust can now be dumped in your creek.
4.
5.
The idea is to make it public and expandable somehow. Can it be done?

February 27, 2017

Here's a way to resist

I know there are graphic artists in DU and I'm calling on you to do what I can't.
You know the fascist symbol of PEPE the frog? Why not one with a blushing, embarrassed look, hand over mouth and a large puddle of pee underneath. PeePee the Frog.
Has anybody done that yet? Good sign to carry at protests.

February 22, 2017

The man says expose yourself in public so here goes...

Hmmm. Harder to do than expected. Hope not to offend nice DUers who have been so kind. Raised as atheist, socialist and proud library card holder. Grew up watching unedited movie newsreels about concentration camps, listening to Woodie Guthrie, Leadbelly and Vera Lynn while reading science fiction, Dostoevsky and Freddy the Pig. Also writing letters of protest, sitting in, marching as a body-filler. Was anybody out there at Woodstock? Traveled some. Found what it is like to lose white privilege and lots of other educational stuff. Studied art and anthropology: all you need to inhabit earth. Now avidly read phys.org and despair of so much possibility swirling down the toilet. Firmly believe that overpopulation is the reason. For damn near everything. But in another universe, hairy cheeseballs are identified while still blastocysts and none of this is happening. What are the odds?