Google images for 'kleptocrat' and…
COMMENT | I don’t know the difference between an algorithm and algebra but thanks to the former, I had a laugh over the news that if one dives into the global web cloud in search of images of “idiot” one gets images of president Donald Trump.
Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee saw in this confirmation of a media conspiracy against the Twit and all that he stood for – himself.
Nope, explained Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai, it’s just a neutral mathematical formula crunching billions of words, measuring them for relevance and popularity. Just maths, no politics.
Tagged. He was caught.
Just like the recently departed president George Bush Sr. Flags flapping at half-mast, dignitaries all in black, putting on their best glum face, slow-stepping soldiers seemingly bearing the weight of history rather than just a corpse. Cute stories were published of Bush’s sartorial signature of colourful socks.
Well, since 2003 a search for images of “miserable failure” will conjure up Bush. He has been joined recently by images of Barack Obama.
Tagged. They are caught.
With my new-found appreciation of maths, I dived into the cloud in search of images of “kleptocrat.” I would be insulting your intelligence if I were to ask you to guess whose mug popped up, with his genial “I-didn’t-know-what-was-going-on” wispy smile.
Immortality in bits and bytes. Tagged and caught for good (pun intended).
The price of infamy is a mounting sum haemorrhaging for bail, and there will be more visits to MACC for an overnight stay, more cases coming down the pipeline...
