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Hey @KazzyH

I forgot to show you!

We traded 4 huge chicken burritos to Magpie’s kitchen for shrimp scampi (not depicted) and the DELISH cod cakes seen below.

No clam pizzas were eaten during the taking of this photo. Unfortunately. But that DOES give me an idea…😉

Speaking of MAGA malefactors...

Remember that Ohio sheriff who said he wasn't gonna respond to Democrats if they had problems?

Now imagine this mindset commonplace, writ large...

Not good.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. The more things change the more they stay the same.
This memory popped up this morning.

And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

* and here we are...

The galaxy is a beautiful place, but there's a star destroying black hole at the center of it. Political metaphor. There is still joy to be found, just not at the event horizon.

Relatedly --

Every word.

"Democrats need to realize that they have less a policy problem than a propaganda problem, one that is evident in both the messages the parties send and the systems through which information is delivered."

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

@Bix @CanisPundit @t_heislen @jdtasker @CinnamonGirlE @Charles_Hawtrey @Mfieck @phac3ti0us @JoyfullyDazed @SmokeytheWisecracker

That said, underneath the crusty exterior he's a charmer. Too bad he got himself kicked off CoSo for recommending unconventional rectal recreations.

My diagnosis?

He, too...hates jazz guitar.

Right, guys?

(lol Bixie)

youtu.be/Kz5scjSQ_WE

@TheAbbotTrithemius

"I have no idea how this gets 'fixed' or even countered."

Yep.

The short answer is that critical thinking must evolve to meet the challenge...and "a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on." Not original and not sexy, I know.

@TheAbbotTrithemius Largely due to setting the algo toward Big Five Personality Traits that favor :Asshat: That was the entire premise of “Mindfuck” by Christopher Wylie.
The algo finds the correlations between people who have low empathy and conscientiousness and high neuroticism and the algo blasts Rogan and Tate ads to them. Constantly. Non stop.

TPM has been publishing their readers observations about the election. This one is especially revealing of how algorithms drive the “bro” online culture via what it perceives as male interests using almost any young male oriented subject area as a way to target and feed them Rogan and others in that bro landscape (Andrew Tate)…

Again and again the algo is the out of control poison diminishing us all.

Your [TPM reader{ Reactions #14

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/y

@lisaannlm The two complains I read from people who tried here and left are:
1. The user interface is different
2. There is not enough engagement

(1) is laziness. They presumably forgot that they had to learn how Twitter/IG/Facebook worked.
(2) is where they confuse engagement with useful engagement. Sex bots and assholes provide engagement, but not useful engagement. Unfortunately a lot of people get a dopamine high from every response.

@StevenSavage I live in a community that is about 50% hispanic.
I'll get the news pretty fast.

And if anyone truly listened to Stephen Miller and the idiot, they'd realize "naturalized" won't mean a damned thing.
According to the idiot... American means "Murican"

@QueenOfEverything

"’He'll use it as a propaganda organ which is precisely why he* bought it,’ Swisher said.”

*”he” with big help from bin Talal and the RUS oligarch kids Aven and Moshkovich.

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