Less than a month after the Arkansas Board of Corrections voted 5-2 to fire Joe Profiri, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s first secretary of corrections, our governor nominated Lindsay Wallace to the role. Governor Sanders is said to have first spoken to Benny Magness, Chair of the Arkansas Board of Corrections, and other members of the board before making the decision.
Both lunar and solar eclipses have provided the basis for superstitions as well as a challenge for scientists and astronomers throughout the ages as they tried to predict when and where each eclipse would occur. EARLY RECORDINGS For ancient cultures, solar eclipses were important and noteworthy events, with the first recorded descriptions of them happening more than 2,000 years before the Christian era (B.C.E.) in China.
Nope, don’t touch that dial. Don’t get out of that chair. Listen to me. Algorithms are all the talk of the day. Religious people make the sign of the cross when they hear the word. Social media people complain when they get bad stuff on their Facebook page. As usual, people blame someone else, like “Well, I wasn’t looking for that kind of stuff.” Really? Well, now, I will give you something else to be angry with me. I am going to tell you that whatever algorithms you are having fault with, are your fault! Yes, you! Now I am going to tell you another secret, and they aren’t new either. Oh, sure they have changed, they have evolved. I bet you get tired of hearing me say that word, don’t cha? Let’s take all of you back to your Bibles, at least the ones of you that have one, a part of the passage from Proverbs 23-7. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Our minds are like a big computer. When you first buy it, it has a clean hard drive. It is empty, it is inert. Then you start to program it. You give it a brain or an operating system. Then, you embed the part of it that gives it tools, like it arms and legs, and its voice and its ears. You train it in the areas that you want it to be educated in. And while in its infancy, you teach it, and give it jobs. When it gets old enough, you introduce it to the internet, and make it a part of that big community of computers, who are just like people. Some are nice and some are not so nice. Computers use algorithms to learn how to serve you best, to give you what you want, to make you happy. So I am sorry if your computer is not making you happy, it is your fault. Sorry, but it is your fault, as you are not feeding it your correct feelings. You may say you don’t like politics but you will spend all day liking and loving and caring and laughing and being shocked and being sad and then angry. But all the time you are still scrolling through these. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” You see, y
Lawrence County Extension in cooperation with Clay, Randolph, and Greene County Extension Services are proud to offer “The Best Care.” It will be on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024, from 8:00 AM-6:00 PM at the Lawrence County Library – Meeting Room.
LITTLE ROCK—The Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library announces that the 2024 If All Arkansas Read the Same Book program will feature Patti Callahan Henry’s novel, “The Secret Book of Flora Lea” (New York: Atria Books, 2023).
Clay County students on the Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for the fall 2023 semester at Arkansas State University have been announced. The lists recognize undergraduate students who achieved the highest grade-point averages while completing a minimum of 12 credit hours of study.