‘Pictures Don’t Lie’: Not True

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy ...

I’m a bit conflicted about posting a link to this nooze story, because the images are grossly offensive. I think I’ll just ask you to take my word for it.

The White House is–shall we say “upset”?–about AI-generated pictures of Taylor Swift. From spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre we have this:

“While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content managing–”

The Lie Buzzer goes off. Loudly.

What? You mean this administration has not leaned on social media companies to impose censorship wherever and whenever the White House wants it? Tell us another one!

Even Taylor Swift, even a Far Left-friendly celebrity, has a right not to be publicly depicted as doing something which she has not, in fact, done. “Artificial Intelligence” is getting way out of hand–and it’s only just started. How are we supposed to tell, anymore, what’s real and what’s not? Where is our commitment to the truth?

Let’s not lose that, shall we? It is, after all, a Commandment: thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor (No. 9 in the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:16).

P.S.–Some 20 years ago, my friend Dr. Sahai saw a supposed TV commercial depicting Shaquille O’Neal interacting with Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason, in The Honeymooners). It was, of course, fake. But he was passionate about it. “What if somebody makes a film of Sahai robbing a bank??? What do I tell the jury?” Hit the nail right on the head, he did.

Banning Everything (‘Cause Everything is Racist)

Flawed Design, Lax Oversight Led to 'Astounding' Miami Bridge Collapse -  The New York Times

Built with pride! And nothing else.

Way back when, I taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It was an engineering college then. Its graduates were expected to be able to design and build things that wouldn’t fall apart.

Now RPI has an “ethnomusicologist”–do you know what that is? does it have anything to do with engineering?–who has organized a major academic conference [groans offstage] to “explore” pop stars like Taylor Swift… and especially in regard to “the whiteness of her fans.” Am I wrong, or are these people starting to sound like Captain Ahab? Obsessed with killing the White Whale.

The conference will also probe how “country music facilitates reproduction of racial and gender inequalities” (https://www.thecollegefix.com/academic-conference-looks-critically-at-taylor-swifts-career-including-the-whiteness-of-her-fans/).

Well sheee-it! boys ‘n’ girls–that bridge you designed and built just collapsed with 200 cars on it, but so what? You’re clued into the whiteness of Taylor Swift’s fans! Really, what more could anybody ask in an engineer?

Damn, everything’s racist! You just can’t have any fun anymore! Gotta ban everything.

When are we going to have enough of this?

‘Alice in Pornyland’ (2017)

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Harvey Weinstein does the perp walk.

I worry about our culture. Hollywood corrupts our culture and then our culture corrupts us. Like so:

Alice in Pornyland

Is it any wonder that we have a transgender movement, an abortion industry, sex trafficking, and a Democrat Party? We do make it hard for ourselves to keep our heads on straight.

If it looks evil, turn and walk away from it. And pray hard. There are times when only God can help us.

Alice in Pornyland

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No, I will not post a picture from the crummy music video. Here’s a nice painted turtle sunning herself instead.

You wonder about a culture that can produce Harvey Weinstein and other sexual predators. That sort of thing has never been exactly unknown in Hollywood–but I think the wider culture around Hollywood is becoming more like Hollywood, and that’s not a happy thought.

F’rinstance: Looking for something else, I stumbled over a story about Taylor Swift’s hot new music video–her “dark, futuristic music video” (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/taylor-swift-naked-cyborg-bodysuit-new-video-article-1.3583187). Oh, boy. Something dark and futuristic. Just what we needed.

In this artistic effort, for which she is being lavishly praised and lavishly rewarded, the 27-year-old pop diva–do you really wonder why I try to stay away from popular culture?–wears a “nude-colored bodysuit” which really does look nude, “and at one point, strikes down an adversary with lightning out of her hands.” Again, oh boy.

She’s supposed to be a cyborg. Part human, part machine, superior to both. Can I say oh boy again?

I think there’s going to be more sexual predation, not less.

Pray hard. It may be God will intervene.