How is it that a system billed as “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) can be so fundamentally stupid? The screenshot above is Goggle version of AI reporting on the 2023 salmon harvest in British […]
On Artificial Ignorance
The headlight
Evidence now points to victim-blaming effort The Alaska State House of Representatives on Thursday joined the state Senate in endorsing the idea of naming a Fairbanks-area bike path after dead cyclist […]
Grand illusion
The sales pitch for a state bailout A news analysis The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is out with its latest propaganda, and the Alaska legacy media is parroting the pitch as representative […]
Death season
The deadly season has begun again in Alaska with a climber dead in Denali National Park and Preserve and a group of glacier-crossing skiers saved in Kenai Fjords National Park thanks to […]
Unseen salmon
Study shines light on secret lives A news analysis While the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been busy outlining a long, involved and financially unrealistic plan for research aimed […]
Bad messaging
Alaska salmon, the poor folks’ seafood! Why, oh why, do the political leaders of the 49th state want to portray Alaska salmon as a commodity the market doesn’t want? First it was […]
The ‘accident’
A death quickly dismissed Forty-eight-year-old Matt Glover from North Pole, Alaska, was, according to his many Fairbanks-area friends, among the safest and most responsible cyclists in the 49th state. A wildland […]
Alaska delusions
The great takeover of federal waters Oh if only the facts were as a trio of Alaska House legislators would like their colleagues to believe. They’ve drafted a resolution calling on Congress […]
Paying the price
Some ‘long-Covid’ tied to lifestyle issues Add Post-Covid Syndrome, or what many now just call “long Covid,” to the lengthy list of ailments compounded by the American Slothdemic. Swedish scientists who examined […]
Dirty bottoms
Salmon ranch waste reported piling up Update: This story was updated on April 8, 2024 to specify the more than $10.3 million the state of Alaska in fiscal year funneled to […]
