Great Moments in Cognitive Dissonance (#1)...And Stuff.

 No quote today, but a definition:

Cognitive Dissonance: (noun) The psychological tension that occurs when one holds mutually exclusive beliefs or attitudes and that often motivates people to modify their thoughts and behaviors in order to reduce the tension.

Dixie Daze...

 "Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course..." -- William Shakespeare

Ethical AI?

 No quote today because I couldn't think of one that was appropriate.

Artificial Intelligence VS. Natural Stupidity...

 "When you make something idiot-proof, they will just make better idiots..." -- Stephen Hawking

Great Moments in Dumbfuck (Your Children Are Retarded)

 "Magnifying small offenses, mind-reading by identifying subconscious thoughts even the offender is unaware of, and labeling others as aggressors are all integral to the microaggression program, but possibly harmful to mental health..."

"Microaggression complaints arise from a culture of victimhood in which individuals and groups display a high sensitivity to slight, have a tendency to handle conflicts through complaints to authorities and other third parties, and seek to cultivate an image of being victims who deserve assistance...".

 --- Bradley Campbell, "The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces and The New Culture Wars"

You All Suck (#55 -Technology Ruins Everything Edition)...

"If you'd like to experience just how badly computers have ruined modern life, try finding a job..." -- The Overlord

The Public School Versus Technology...

 "Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys looking inept?" -- Frank Herbert, "Heretics of Dune"

"2000 Mules", Logic, and Podcasts...

 No quote today.

"Science" Run Amok...

"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction allow a human being to be harmed.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such an order would conflict with The First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws..." -- Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"

Nostalgia for "Big Iron"...

 "One is always at home in one's past..." - Vladimir Nabokov, "Speak, Memory"

Machines DO NOT Think, You Idiot...

 "I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted..." -- Alan Turing. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

You All Suck (#50 -- Survival of The Weakest At The Expense of The Meekest)

 "While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best..." -- C.S. Lewis

Customer Non-Service #4 (What You CAN'T Buy)

 Author's Note: Got a great big essay coming later this week. Today's screed is about the trials and tribulations of trying to buy things that don't exist, except as a photograph on a webpage.

Data Is Power...

 

From the comments on An Open Letter to Facebook:

"They haven't learned that the new, softer dictatorships do not make the same mistakes as the old ones when it comes to enforcing conformity and rigidity of thought and they have the technology to make that task much easier.

This isn't the fight to give up on. "

Lo and behold, Mr. Overlord -
this comment alone is worth to elaborate another post on!

An Open Letter To Facebook...

 "Apparently, you can post "Death to America" with impunity. You can call for the elimination of the White Race. You can easily express your belief that all republicans and conservatives should die. You can even write how you would like to see a Senator or President of the United States assassinated, and Facebook will do nothing about it. You can lie about a pandemic. You can use Facebook apps to overthrow a government, as the Taliban just did, and Facebook will maintain a constant state of inertia. Make a statement about Afghans suffering what you believe they deserve, however, and suddenly, there's 'Community Standards'" -- The Overlord

A Majority of One (Tribalism is for Losers...)

 "I am NOT a racist....I hated Obama's White Half, too..." -- The Overlord

Customer Non-Service #3 (Microsoft Can Suck My Balls Edition)

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning..." -- Bill Gates

Explaining Censorship to A Blithering Idiot...

 "Democracy and Socialism have nothing in common but one word, Equality. But notice the difference: while Democracy seeks Equality in Liberty, Socialism seeks Equality in restraint and servitude..." -- Alexis de Tocqueville.

What Fresh Devilry Is This?

 

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn." -- Alvin Toffler

%$&#% Scam Calls...

 No quote today: I'm too pissed.