Too many em dashes?
Too little confidence.
Too little respect for your audience.
Too many em dashes?
Too little confidence.
Too little respect for your audience.
Why? Fragility. Lack of moral compass. Lack of substance and gravitas.
And: self-serving opportunism.
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When we weren’t so fragile
We supported and signed the Geneva Conventions (1949) etc
From strength and confidence
Now the administration and the ‘anti-woke’ decry such norms as pearl-clutching and dismiss them outright.
SEMIOLÓGIST SEIZES CADUCEUS, ASCLEPIAN ROD, AND MOSES’ SERPENT‑STAFF: FILM AT 11
28.02.2026 22:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Department of Perpetual Peace: Weaponizing Confident Doubt for the Regime www.linkedin.com/pulse/depart...
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Meanwhile, back at the DAF:
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"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm." Lancet Cover - Feb 28, 2026
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I lived on the Boulevard, but it wasn’t so dirty
and now I live on another Boulevard -- it’s even less so
Maybe the big thing is that this hype cycle looks like it will never end?
25.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What’s the ‘Big Thing’ that’s happening? www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-...
Just so we get off on the right foot: I'm not here to hype LLM et al.
At all.
Yes, dependency is the Business model ... and indeed we can extrapolate for some thinking beyond mere business/market power - it's part of a political model. but I would use other terms. Some social hellscape that quibblers will want a new name for.
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Fresh from the Philip-Morris school: Instagram not addictive!
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Your voice? hardly.
Getting guidance on grammar and structure, etc., from your LLM? Great, but don’t just feed it your ideas and have it spit them back out in what it thinks of as “your voice”
It isn’t your voice. It’s less honest. And it reads that way.
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Danger?
Far more dangerous than AI (LLM, et al.) is the hype machine around it driven in part by the finance engine which needs to extract something from the investment - and the careless deployment of the tools and the hype - of course our own ...
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Pumping irony
Pumping out content
for brand
and market
quality will suffer
Field will suffer
Who do you want to be?
Public Note to FB: When there’s a wikipedia page for a person with a death date a few years in the past, that should be an acceptable and authoritative source for Memorialization of their profile.
Case: A man I respected but had no concrete tie to --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
25.01.2026 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I remember when certain people were against "masks"
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Solidarity with MN:
www.iceoutnowmn.com
Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace' | "The so-called “Board of Peace” being created by President Donald Trump is profoundly degrading to the pursuit of peace and to any nation that would lend it legitimacy."
22.01.2026 20:16 — 👍 49 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 9704 🔁 1442 💬 97 📌 89I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
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But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.
What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself).
She didn't even have a hat on.
Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 7562 🔁 542 💬 14 📌 23It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.
22.01.2026 03:58 — 👍 8783 🔁 880 💬 14 📌 63I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
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Trump administration likely thought: “Blue state, blue city, Black immigrants, soft target.”
What they’ve actually done is mobilize one of the most civic-minded communities in America into mass resistance.
"Cut for time". SNL
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