Sunday, August 04, 2024

Tips on using OpenBSD's pledge and unveil in perl scripts

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 OpenBSD 5.9 (current as of this post is 7.5) introduced the "pledge" system call and 6.4 introduced the "unveil" system...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Wikipedia, Skeptical Inquirer, and AI on Robert A. Baker plagiarism accusations

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 The Wikipedia entry for University of Kentucky psychologist and skeptic Robert A. Baker recently (December 2023) restored a section on plag...
Sunday, May 05, 2024

Bill Frist's cat-killing story

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 After adding a post about Kristi Noem's dog-killing story , I realized I hadn't mentioned former House Majority Leader Bill Frist&#...

Kristi Noem's dog-killing story

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 Before the release of South Dakota Governor (and prospective Trump VP running mate) Kristi Noem's book, No Going Back: The Truth on Wha...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

If embryos are babies, then in-vitro fertilization is immoral

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Alabama and the GOP are discovering what this blog pointed out 15 years ago--if you're going to adopt a policy that embryos are full bea...
Monday, January 01, 2024

Books read in 2023

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 Not much blogging going on here still, but here's my annual list of books read for 2023. Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans, Wonder Boy: To...
Thursday, July 06, 2023

A short conversation with ChatGPT about the Grand Canyon

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  ChatGPT does fairly well with this, though its selected points don't include any of the more obscure points of interest, it's skew...