DON SURBER: Why The Resistance Is Futile.

via donsurber: The Times approach to Trump supporters was laughably offensive. It reported, “In interviews across the country over the last few days, dozens of Trump voters, as well as pollsters and strategists, described something like a bonding experience with the …

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IBM’s Project Debator is an AI designed to debate humans by accessing insane amounts of “fact based” information online to form an argument. Human shills, meet your replacement.

IBM is developing an AI which can debate humans with information stored in it’s memory. (apologies; headline says “online” and is incorrect, at least for now. ) Project Debater turned out to be a formidable opponent, scanning the hundreds of …

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Tim Canova: Democracies everywhere have banned electronic voting machines because they’re inherently vulnerable to hacking. Except in US, here it’s Black Box voting, cannot inspect the software, it’s “proprietary.”

We need paper ballots counted by hand in public for transparency & Integrity. Democracies everywhere have banned electronic voting machines because they’re inherently vulnerable to hacking. Except in US, here it’s Black Box voting, cannot inspect the software, it’s “proprietary.” …

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