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Do you think you’re right about everything? Of course, my reader is too smart to fall for that. Nobody’s right about everything and to say otherwise is hubris. One ought to be open-mind…| SovietMen
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YouTube secretly used AI to edit people’s videos. The results could bend reality Something seemed off in one of his recent posts, but he could barely tell the difference. “I thought, ‘am just I imagining things?'” It turns out, he wasn’t. In recent months, YouTube has secretly used artificial intelligence (AI) to tweak people’s videos […]| SovietMen
Do you think you’re right about everything? Of course, my reader is too smart to fall for that. Nobody’s right about everything and to say otherwise is hubris. One ought to be open-mind…| SovietMen
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.Elbert Hubbard Want of forbearance in small matters confounds great plans.Confucius I …| SovietMen
Aboriginal group claims legalising pepper spray will deepen racial divide The NT government this week announced a 12-month trial allowing members of the public to carry low-percentage Oleoresin Cap…| SovietMen
Some readers take umbrage at my criticism of American leaders, so please take heart at how much worse ours are in Australia. Being an island nation dependent on international trade, Australia’…| SovietMen
Breast augmentation The longitudinal study Excess Mortality from Suicide and other External Causes of Death Among Women with Cosmetic Breast Implants (2007), reported that women who sought breast implants are almost 3.0 times as likely to commit suicide as are women who have not sought breast implants. Compared to the standard suicide-rate for women of the general populace, […]| SovietMen
The kerfuffle about the statistics lady sacking reminds me: Trump is not very smart. He has a genius in some areas – his tweets are works of art – but overall he’s unread, incurious, and unwilling to consider advice. Details wash off him like water from a duck’s back. To take the stats lady: on […]| SovietMen
If It’s Worth Your Time To Lie, It’s Worth My Time To Correct It …I think “okay, but everyone knows that something vaguely similar is true” is an especially dangerous case of this. Maybe I don’t agree that the similar thing is true. Maybe the similar thing is true, but it’s got some big problem […]| SovietMen
When I first moved to Taiwan, I bought a millionth-hand 125cc scooter from an American for $50. The small amount of paint left on it was purple. It pulled to the right. Otherwise, it was okay. He threw in the helmet for free. This was a ‘ghost bike’ – a bike that was unregisterable because […]| SovietMen
Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats Adam’s brash persona marks a stark departure from previous ambassadors to Muslim-majority Malaysia, typically seasoned career diplomats suited to the country’s cautious, pragmatic and subtle style of foreign policy, which favours quiet diplomacy over headline-grabbing rhetoric…. Adams, however, has political experience, having been elected as Australia’s youngest […]| SovietMen
Understanding The Blob Imagine if the Church of Scientology had infiltrated the government. Members got positions in the administrative state and the political system. They then directed money to o…| SovietMen
I’ve been thinking for some time that Trump reminds me of someone, and no, not the failed artist. But who? The other day, it came to me:| SovietMen
