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As we become accustomed to AI, it’s mistakes may sometimes be taken for truth.
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AI speaking
I live in the Town of Elmira. At the airport, the robotic speaker mispronounces that name. Google translate does the same. Evidently it is done by AI. I suppose computer applications guess at pronu…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Corning NY #NOKINGS
October 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What does the Administration value? Certainly not liberty and justice for all. Whose interest would be served by domination by white male oligarchs? Surely not the vast majority of us.
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Pillars of America’s strength
Since taking office, Trump and his minions have been systematically demolishing each of these pillars of U.S. strength. — Paul Krugman, Oct. 13 What were the pillars of U.S. strength? Our Fir…
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October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In a 1970 letter to the "Bangor Daily News," e.b.white wrote: "There is only one kind of press that is any good--a press free from any taint of government control."
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In the 1956 movie, "Forbidden Planet," Dr. Edward Morbius has discovered and mastered powerful machinery that magnifies his thoughts. The catch is that his malign, unconscious thoughts are magnified. We experience something much like that today.
September 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Data centers are expected to consume a great deal of electricity. If regulated public utilities invest to meet the need, the costs will fall on the public.
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Cost of electricity
Last week the watchdog for PJM Interconnection LLC, the nation’s largest grid, declared that this (the cost of adding capacity to power data centers passed on to ordinary customers) must stop, that…
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September 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So many things are said to need less money--schools, libraries, museums, hospitals, national parks, nutrition, transportation, housing, public health. Yet even though cruel and reportedly unpopular, immigration enforcement is said to need more.
July 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"The rich owe their distinction, their luxuries, to the poor, as much as the poor owe their rewards, their necessaries, to the rich." -- Fanny Burney, "Cecilia," Vol. 3
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrouled power; ..." --A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1790
April 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social and I walking into a PACKED house at UAW Region 1 here in Warren, MI! Republican Rep. John James refuses to hold a Townhall, so we did it for him!
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Equal Pay Day. March 25 this year, is the day that women on average have earned what men have earned by the end of last year. The Paycheck Fairness Act would update the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and close loopholes that have allowed employers to justify paying women less than men for the same work.
Gender pay gap 2025
March 25 is Equal Pay Day 2025 Equal Pay Day is the day that women on the average have earned what men have earned by the end of last year. That’s not to suggest that women have somehow caugh…
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March 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We are all in this together.–Joyce Vance

“E pluribus unum” is our motto. The MAGA motto ought to be “tough luck.” Today it is tough luck for immigrants, veterans, SNAP recipients and many others here and abroad. Tomorrow it will tough luck for all who aren’t cruel and wealthy.
March 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Feb. 17, 2025 in Corning, NY
February 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM