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What a time to be alive, eh? And we haven't even scratched the surface of AI/deep fake making an impact on... our shattered sense of reality

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What a time, indeed. AI and deep fakes is a Black Mirror nightmare, too.

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That's why many of us shot a few hollow points into our televisions and stopped paying for the Wall Street Journal.

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We our TV to stream movies. I can't remember the last time I watched TV news but it was years ago. I haven't missed it for one second.

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I wonder is it racist call the loss of power a blackout? I’m thinking a Newsom would be equally descriptive and nobody could accuse you of bias 🧐

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"Californians are experiencing rolling newsoms." "A major newsom threatens LA this summer." It rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? A wonderful idea!

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Irina - Thanks for exposing the BS! A famous American comedian George Carlin once said this - "Bullshit is the glue" - please watch this video on youtube and it is about 2 minutes. Truth is simply painful. Another elephant in the room, please see the LLNL energy flow chart of the US for 2021, you see that 2/3 of the energy is wasted. All the economic activities are performed within this framework of 33% efficient energy grid. How can any mathematically sophisticated probabilistic technique beat the second law of thermodynamics?

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I will, Satish, I'm a big fan of Carlin.

if 2/3 of the energy is wasted that's one quite inefficient grid...

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I started by typing in a reply here but ended up writing a whole piece. 🤣😂

https://greenleapforward.substack.com/p/the-stench-of-bo

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Good! The more of us call these people out, the better.

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Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia...

It’s unfortunate, but the people who wrote that really have no concept of the world they are asking for.

Samizdat will always exist!

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Yes, but once it's made it punishable by imprisonment it will shrink considerably. How hard would it be to accuse a blogger of misinformation and disinformation...

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Hence my pseudonymous life on the internet... my (admittedly relatively tame heterodox) opinions are already too inconvenient for my employer.

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Hail freedom of speech without fear of persecution...

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Exactly

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Yet more reason to worry? To be fair this has been going on for yrs, especially at the supposedly (politically) neutral BBC (Biased Broadcasting Company) here in the UK. They publically gave up presenting 2 sides to the climate change argument... but I still have to pay for them. I've never ever bought the AGW nonsense since the early 1990s but Covid has hardened my stance on remaining firmly skeptical about everything I'm told by Govts and state actors.

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Oh, it's been going on for years all right, they just hadn't made it official and totally out in the open.

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