Incompetence of the powerful
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Everything learns
I don’t think it’s true that the orange baby isn’t rational. The problem it has is what it has experienced its whole life and career: getting away with everything it tried, no matter what. In some way you could look at it (the o.b.) as simply a statistical outlier, like an astonishingly lengthy string of Continue reading
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Time to do better
The US is not going back to the way we were. And good riddance, in my view. Without meaning to, American society and business practices have become a means of enriching and aggrandizing despicable people. This is not entirely new, but it seems to me that it’s more common and systemic now. There is not Continue reading
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It doesn’t care, except about power
The orange baby just launched a war it won’t explain. None of the lickspittles in its cabal will explain it either. Here’s a possibility. The premises: • Americans are coming to despise the orange baby, its pretend government, and its policies. • The orange baby knows this, even though what it says is, as usual, Continue reading
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DOGEing off
Remember how mental midget Musk was supposedly eliminating “inefficiency” and “overspending” in government? And his squad of infant tech bros were supposed to be really smart? Yeah, well, in their quest to steal personal data from government agencies, they seem to have missed ninety-three billion dollars that the eminently unqualified Fox News host Hegseth wasted Continue reading
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Why? Why? Why?
“Because [it is] insane. Because [it’s] venal. Because [it’s] a malignant narcissist. Because [it’s] a sociopath. Because [it]e has a fragile ego. Because those around [it] exacerbate and play to those traits to advance their own interests. Because CEOs and investors do likewise to fill their coffers. Because to some people, whether it is insane Continue reading
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Distracted yet?
The orange baby will do anything, kill anybody, to save itself. It deserves at least to be in prison, and it knows it. Cue clips of it admitting it’s “not getting into heaven.” Of course, it’s only ever pretended to care about religion, and it probably doesn’t believe in heaven at all. Look at what’s Continue reading
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Are they liars, or just stupid?
One thing I’ve found you can safely assume about virtually anything committed right-wingers say is that it’s not true. Doesn’t match reality that you can quite often check easily. Which they never do. Another twist when they’re in charge of something is keeping secrets about things they do wrong. What I don’t know for sure Continue reading
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Come quick, Timmy fell down the well!
It seems the failsons and privileged dullards running what’s left of the US government got their paws on a military laser designed to knock threatening drones out of the sky on a battlefield. They gleefully (I assume) set out to use their shiny new toy. They identified a drone threatening the El Paso, Texas airspace! Continue reading
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All too human
Sam Altman, the public face of OpenAI (ChatGPT vendor) is most of all a fast-talking salesman. He’s really good at that. As such, you can’t really believe anything he ever says; when he says “A”, it’s just a reason to obtain “B”, no matter what it takes. Truth is entirely beside the point. Seems like Continue reading
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meta meta
I’m not talking about the company formerly known as Facebook. I’m talking about the actual noncommercial sense of “meta,” which is basically self-reference. You have to be careful about letting self-reference tie your thinking up in knots. It gets complicated very quickly. The traitors and dragons (in the sense Tolkien used the term) attempting to Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
Check out my other blog, Techlimitics, where I’m grappling with the nature of simplicity.