Web Log for 12.14-15.25

Following a particularly cataclysmic round of those Microsoft updates that the computer was supposed to stop getting in October...much online time spent restarting the computer five or six times, and it's still not working right. Linux should arrive before or shortly after Christmas.

Christmas

Politicized Nativity scenes? C.A. Skeet tells it like it is.

https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/12/13/there-are-some-persecuted-refugees-that-the-woke-nativity-scenes-wont-show-n4947049 

Plagiarized Information 

"Artificial intelligence"? There's no such thing. There is ordinary information, and then there's Plagiarized Information. PI. I think using the more accurate term will help.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/ai-a-dedicated-fact-failing-machine-or-yet-another-reason-not-to-trust-it-for-anything/