Just when I’m thinking things are crazy, here in California, there’s news about Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert railing“against ‘wokeness’ when Lift Every Voice and Sing was sung at last Sunday’s Super Bowl.
What’s not to like about lifting every voice?
But, according to a Business Insider story, Rep. Boebert was raging, because “the hymn, known as the Black national anthem, was sung alongside ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’”
She suggested the hymn “is divisive,” and “the NFL” is “trying to divide the country.”
But, when you think about it, doesn’t the NFL bring thousands of fans together at stadiums? They sit together. Snacks and drinks, purchased during games, they pass down rows of seats to each other. They’re sometimes mingling together, before games begin, doing that tailgating thing… grilling burgers, hotdogs and steaks, out in stadium parking lots.
Maybe Rep. Boebert hasn’t experienced that sort of togetherness, at games?
Also in Business Insider, there was news about Google, which has a major presence in California, and elsewhere, including Colorado.
There seems to be a kerfuffle, with Google employees “mocking the firm’s “Bard AI chatbot announcement, calling it ‘rushed’ and ‘botched’ in memes.”
I had to Google ‘chatbot’ and ‘memes.’
I sort of know what ‘memes’ means, but ‘chatbot?’ I had to Google that, and while I was at it, ‘kerfluffle,’ too.
In one of the memes, it seems, there was something about Bard having “at least one incorrect answer to something,” which, considering AI’s role in the Bard chatbot, might have had something to do with the Google employees’ mocking memes?
Who knows, for sure? Unless you really know high tech, and tech lingo, and all.
Even political lingo, like ‘wokeness’… Oh sheesh, do I have to Google that one… again?
And ‘sheesh,’ too?
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.