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ChatGPT. I asked it to create a poem about insects in the style of e.e. cummings. I got doggerel in the style of Robert Service but without capitalization anywhere. cummings capitalizes 'Women' in 'anyone lived in a pretty how town'. I asked it to...
by jetsilver
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on Fri Feb 09, 2024 at 04:02 PM PST
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Conspiracy nuts are a peculiar lot. They are absolutely certain of things with no evidence whatsoever. How can you deal with such an individual when you meet one? Suppose that a conspiracy nut asserts to you that the government had John Ritter killed...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Dec 27, 2023 at 04:22 PM PST
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
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on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
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On Sunday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took time away from space laser theorizing to post a tweet about how her television might be watching her. Writing , “Last night in my DC residence, ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 11:35 AM PDT
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This weekend saw Donald Trump launch what is being called his first official rally of his 2024 campaign. As you may have already heard, it was held in Waco, Texas, on the 30th anniversary of the infamous and dramatic ending to an FBI siege on the...
by novapsyche
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on Mon Mar 27, 2023 at 09:31 AM PDT
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“Cooties” are something that many of us encountered in childhood. From the link: Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease, commonly represented as childlore. It is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines as a...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Feb 28, 2023 at 11:49 AM PST
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Taylor Brorby has a guest editorial in The NY Times: The Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians ...two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in...
by xaxnar
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on Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 02:46 PM PST
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Ali Alexander, one of the organizers of the Stop the Steal movement that culminated in the January 6th Capitol insurrection, is currently going around the country, telling MAGA followers that not only does he have the power of time travel but that...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Nov 22, 2022 at 03:02 PM PST
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Many people would like to believe if Donald Trump could magically be made irrelevant, the Republican Party would become…. ‘normal’ again, and not the party of American-style fascism it is today. David Corn writing at Mother Jones has bad news for those...
by xaxnar
204 comments
on Mon Sep 12, 2022 at 09:01 AM PDT
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On The Fence is a continuing story. Imagine if you were somehow plucked out of your life in 2012 and dropped into all the craziness of the present day you would be totally disoriented. By the same token if you begin reading this ongoing story on page...
by Partofthesolution
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 07:12 AM PDT
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Okay, I’m throwing this out to the Hive Mind.
I got a notice on my Facebook page and an email telling me that I have been identified (by Facebook/Meta) as having an�account that is a potential ...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Apr 12, 2022 at 08:58 AM PDT
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David Bateman, the founder and chairman of Entrata, a Utah tech firm, sent an email from his entrata.com account early Monday in which he claimed the COVID-19 vaccine is part of a plot by "the Jews" to exterminate Americans. In addition, Bateman cited...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed Jan 05, 2022 at 02:37 PM PST
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I read an article some years ago where the mentalities, phobias, and motivating factors of liberals and conservatives were analyzed. Conservatives were shown to be fear-based in political philosophy and generally fearful individuals in general. As has...
by cabaretic
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on Tue Aug 24, 2021 at 10:42 AM PDT
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President Biden has said to Republicans: “If you aren’t going to help, at least get out of the way.” Why are they getting in the way in the first place? Why would they actively and aggressively stop mask mandates and vaccine requirements? Are they...
by Perlinator
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on Wed Aug 11, 2021 at 10:03 PM PDT
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If you started using the internet before Facebook and Twitter existed, you probably know a few things about social media platforms. When local bulletin boards, listservs, and local BBS carriers were a good source of information. It didn’t matter if you...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Fri Apr 30, 2021 at 09:03 AM PDT
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Events of the past week I have been watching the events and aftermath of last week. I am sure everyone has. The situation is dire and, according to reports from the intelligence community, isn’t over yet. Thousands of National Guard troops...
by 40ford
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on Fri Jan 15, 2021 at 03:38 PM PST
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By Hal Brown, MSW
“Let us now abstract the basic elements in the paranoid style. The central image is that of a vast and sinister conspiracy, a gigantic and yet subtle machinery of influence set ...
by HalBrown
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on Thu Jan 14, 2021 at 10:07 AM PST
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Today’s news has me feeling rattled. It appears further violence perpetrated by white nationalists in this country is unavoidable. Yes, the perps of Wednesday’s insurrection are being found and arrested, but white nationalists see the...
by gizmo59
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on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 07:08 PM PST
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This is for the Pie-in-the-Sky-seeing neo-utopians who think finding “common ground” with “most” Trumpsters is possible. You are the frogs. They are the scorpions. You know the story. Let me expand: My biggest fear is...
by MaxxW
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on Fri Nov 27, 2020 at 02:55 PM PST
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On November 19th, Rudy Giuliani and other members of the Trump legal team held an extended press conference to discuss their claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. While this event will be remembered as the occasion where Giuliani's...
by bobburnett
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on Fri Nov 27, 2020 at 06:51 AM PST
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