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Will we ever learn?
Just Another Day in the USA; Charlie Kirk shot to death on a campus in Utah (which allows anybody to carry a concealed firearm). And three students shot in a high school in Denver. That old nonsense “guns don’t kill people, people kill people?” Not exactly. People with guns kill people. Continue reading
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Sure, just make it up
“Zuckerberg joined Trump at a White House tech event on Thursday evening and sat next to the president. Trump asked Zuckerberg about Meta’s upcoming investments in AI infrastructure, “How much are you spending, would you say, over the next few years?” “Oh gosh. I mean, I think it’s probably going to be something like, I Continue reading
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Silver Lining
by Chocolate My human has an injured footand so can’t walk too far.He doesn’t know I get it,I can wait ’til he’s back to par. He feels bad and guiltythat we’re missing daily miles,But I can run & play in my back yard;I tell him with some smiles. One part of this that I don’t Continue reading
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Symiliptic report Sember 7
In creating the sixth republic, we have an advantage the founders of the first and the reformers of the fourth lacked: we have more collected data about methods and processes of governing and their outcomes. We have more tools to analyze the data as well, and other, better-functioning societies to be emulated. In addition to Continue reading
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Simple tools
There are certain things I very much like about old-school unix software. I’m talking about the command-line utilities that were each designed to do one thing very well. To accomplish a more complex task, or in modern lingo, “workflow,” you could easily combine several programs, sending the output of one to the input of another, Continue reading
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Symiliptic report August 30
Building the Sixth Republic Creating the sixth republic out of some of the fragments of the fourth and the fifth is a generational project. Like the first republic, we tried to avoid the characteristics of society that resulted in the former problems. For us, that meant the many problems that were present even at the Continue reading
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2025
“The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the worldview and mental habits proper to the devotees of [the Party], but to make all other modes of thought impossible.” “The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as ‘This dog is Continue reading
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The crisis
Dornbusch’s law: “The crisis takes longer to happen than you can possibly imagine, then happens quicker than you can possibly imagine.” Rüdiger “Rudi” Dornbusch Continue reading
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Symiliptic Report Aigust 23
I was thinking this morning about how the fourth republic fell, and how the real world people finally decided to be done with the scum once and for all. And not a single shot was fired. it was all done with social media, which the scum have always been surprisingly compliant with. Suggest (or “influence,” Continue reading
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So now we know
Remember that thing about the orange baby getting a lot of electoral help from its friends in Russia a few years back? And how it has said nothing but “hoax” ever since? Well now we know, the orange baby did collude with Russia to win its first presidential election. How do we know? Its national 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.
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