Opinion Dominion

I don't know - perhaps it's the graphic description given by an eyewitness - but the latest random mass shooting in Texas feels mor...

Yeah, I can imagine how unpleasant Hanoi could be in heat this high: Vietnam has reported a record-high temperature of 44.1C (111.38F), as ...

Yes, I really find him a pretentious and tedious windbag.     Random thoughts that occurred to me during the service:   *   Musically, seeme...

One of the increasing rare posts in the category "worth reading" at Hot Air:  Jazz Shaw asked Chat GPT to pick lottery numbers for...

An interesting article at Nature about some advance in looking at how brains are working while thinking stuff, and being able to interpret ...

The Washington Post has an article up about the odd thing about cannabis use - it can be relaxing for some, but anxiety producing for other...

I really do not find that comedy trio Auntie Donna to be funny.   I have nothing against the absurdist style in comedy, but they just seem t...

The science writer Denis Overbye has a piece at the New York Times ( gift link ) in which he notes his dissatisfaction (or depression) at th...

Interesting news story in the last couple of days: The man often touted as the godfather of AI has quit Google , citing concerns over the f...

It's about time I posted again about my recent-ish short holiday in Vietnam. So, let's talk Ha Long Bay. If you're going to be i...

Bosi, like Michael Flynn in the US, is such compelling proof that achievement in the military gives no immunity at all from developing inten...

I'm really sure why anyone thinks it's important to work this out, but I guess it's interesting nonetheless. From Science: If yo...

This has been around on Twitter for a week or two, but the Guardian (from which this screenshot comes) has an article about it today :  Upda...

I see from reading Tucker Love (Australia) Central - one of the "new" Catallaxy blogs - that they are spitting chips over not only...

I'm pretty sure that at some point in the future, I will be able to get an AI to read my entire blog, and then take over writing it.  Th...

Given the sudden surge of interest in how close we may be to creating a true Artificial General Intelligence, I thought I would finally get ...

I had forgotten, really, how big Barry Humphries had been for a time in America, but his (quite long and detailed) obituaries in the Washing...

Over the years, I have often commented how a recipe I was trying was supposed to use saffron, but I never have it on hand (in fact, had neve...

Yes, I had seen the trailer for this Apple TV movie Ghosted a few weeks ago, and thought it looked really, remarkably, bad in a "strea...

In the red hot trans culture wars, the (what?) anti trans/trans sceptic/TERF-y side has recently been talking about this: Now, “eunuch” has...