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2023 archive

The Misdirection Playbook 0

Title: How To Get People To Vote for You Even after You Show Complete Disregard for Their Lives. Frame One, captioned

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March 2, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Republican Hypocrisy |

Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Woman looking a television which displays a channel titled,

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March 2, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

It’s All about the Algorithm 0

At Psychology Today Blogs, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry charges you with being addicted to your phone.

Yes, you (but certainly not me–well at least to the extent that I avoid “social” media like the anti-social plague that it has become). They further argue that this is no accident:

Your phone is designed to be addictive. Multibillion-dollar corporations have used all its features to play your brain like the instrument it is and give you little shots of dopamine all day long like a rat in an experiment being dosed with sugar, food pellets, or cocaine. The more attention you give it, the more money they make, so they made it work like drugs work, and if you are at all susceptible you are down the rabbit hole just as surely as you would be if you were addicted to cocaine, with tolerance, withdrawal, and ongoing use despite it causing problems with work or relationships, an inability to cut down, and so much time devoted to its use that the rest of your life begins to be organized around it.

Follow the link for some recommendations on how you can get your life back.

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March 2, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff, Mammon |

QOTD 0

Jane Wyman:

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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March 2, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

A Pence-sive Moment 0

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Suffer the Children 0

Misbehave in second grade, go to the principal’s office jail.

Also, too.

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race" |

Indoctrination Nation 0

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Republican Hypocrisy |

More News of the Polite 0

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration seized a record 6,542 guns at airports around the country. Most people who are stopped for having a gun at an airport checkpoint say they forgot they had the weapon with them.

If you’re too stupid to know you’re packing heat, maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to pack heat.

Afterthought:

Yeah, I know that most of them didn’t really “forget.” They just couldn’t face being separated from their portable phalluses.

Let’s try this again:

If you’re too stupid to realize that metal detectors detect metal, maybe you’re too stupid be allowed near anything made of metal.

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

All the News that Fits 0

I think that a strong argument can be made that Fox News is little more than Pravda, Republican style.

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Republican Lies |

The Lethal Weapon 0

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", Culture Warriors, Hate Sells |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Show your politeness to your fellow driver after a fender-bender.

We are a broken society.

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

QOTD 0

Patrick Lencioni:

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

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March 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

All the News that Fits 0

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

The Slippery Slope 0

Sparky and Blinky are speeding donw a hillside in a woven basket on wheels. Sparky says,

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

Chickens. Home. Roost. 0

I’m sure I’m not the only person who sees misty water-colored vestiges of irony in this headline.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre |

“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Self-politeness is the politest kind.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Gunnuttery |

Decoding de Code 0

Bryan Cranston decodes de code in less than a minute.

Via C&L, which has commentary.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race" |

Twits on Twitter 0

Twits without precedents.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Horrors of the Night, Mammon |

Digital Security Theatre 0

Bruce Schneir thinks that the efforts to ban TikTok, which seems to be the new “in” thing in the West, miss the point. A snippet:

If we want to address the real problem, we need to enact serious privacy laws, not security theater, to stop our data from being collected, analyzed, and sold—by anyone. Such laws would protect us in the long term, and not just from the app of the week. They would also prevent data breaches and ransomware attacks from spilling our data out into the digital underworld, including hacker message boards and chat servers, hostile state actors, and outside hacker groups. And, most importantly, they would be compatible with our bedrock values of free speech and commerce, which Congress’s current strategies are not.

The entire article is worth a read.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Geek Stuff, Masters of the Universe, Running Naked through the Internet |

QOTD 0

I. F. Stone:

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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February 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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