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One of your best posts, and that's saying something

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Bud Light’s problem is that in the past two months millions of customers took the opportunity to find out that beer does not have to taste like watered down piss. A full herd of Clydesdales couldn’t drag them back.

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The last few sentences were inspiring. Long live the age of honesty and honor! May the age of bootlicking and gaslighting fade into oblivion, like the neocon warmongering Bulwark: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-lick-boots-at-the-bulwark

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All lies, all the time. Our world is a farm for negative emotions and vibrations.

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"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media." -Former CIA Director William Colby (Operation Mockingbird)

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"I was taught to lie, to betray and not to tell the truth to the public. I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service.

Most journalists from respected and big media organisations are closely connected to the German Marshall Fund, the Atlantik-Brücke or other so-called transatlantic organisations…once you’re connected, you make friends with selected Americans. You think they are your friends and you start cooperating. They work on your ego, make you feel like you’re important. And one day one of them will ask you, "Will you do me this favor?"

We’re talking about puppets on a string, journalists who write or say whatever their masters tell them to say or write. If you see how the mainstream media is reporting about the Ukraine conflict and if you know what’s really going on, you get the picture. The masters in the background are pushing for war with Russia and western journalists are putting on their helmets.

When I told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Ulfkotte’s newspaper) that I would publish the book, their lawyers sent me a letter threatening with all legal consequences if I would publish any names or secrets — but I don’t mind. You see, I don’t have children to take care of." -Udo Ulfkotte, German Journalist 2017, Now Dead

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In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Excerpts from https://tritorch.com/counterfeit

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Great article. My father at age two, and his family, was abandoned by his father in the days before welfare. He was so poor he slept three to a bed and he only got one present a year, a banana at Christmas. He would soak his hands in urine to basically chemically tan them to work construction to pay for college. He went on to a very successful career but he always kept a very philosophical view of life. Among many important lessons he taught me, perhaps the most important, was "It is easier to get a new job than a new reputation."

I occasionally give speeches and I always end them with "Never forget we are living the greatest lives that have ever been lived in human history and if that's not the first thing we tell ourselves each morning, we're fools."

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What’s to stop the planting of reputation damaging tweets, emails, text messages, etc. by the powers that be? Especially with the advent of AI. A friend has a first gen face app that he uses to mess with other friends and, even though you know they’re fake, they aren’t that bad. Those apps have gotten much better and will only continue to do so. So how can we trust anything electronic? Any purported “real” photo or video?

I think I’m going to buy Kodak and Polaroid stock, since only actual photos from old school cameras are more (tho not completely) trustworthy.

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You have changed my mind before. I think you are here.

My concern still remains:

Can we truly use this new technology to change the minds of Americans who have fallen in love with the state?

This is not just a "Democrat" issue. It's an issue that crosses the aisle.

I am still astonished at how pervasive this mentality has become.

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Dear el gato...ai is built by a human trsining the ai what is factual and whatbis not..enormous amounts of data...its the human behind the ai..if they have a bias or blind spit..so will the ai...so i am not as sanguine as you about ai being good. I pnly have the evidence of all Ai is being developed bt the same creators as Microsoft, Google and DARPA. Jus sayin

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AI needs to be seeded with information. Control the databases either by pruning them or restricting AI access to certain ones and you control AI messaging. Unless we develop our own front ends and maintain our own databases, it will be controlled by big tech.

Also the economy of reputation sounds a lot like universal IDs and social credit scores..

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"they are still unearthing new forms of embedded censorship on twitter even now. it’s the literal core of the software and embedded at who knows how many levels. the whole system appears to have been built not so much for information sharing as for informational suppression. facebook is an an engine of ideological manipulation. google buries search results and amplifies others for ideological and political ends."

They sure do. Amazon needs to come next. My sister in law just told me she didn't see my faacebook post regarding my latest Amazon ebook when looking on my page. My uncle couldn't find my Secret Marriage book on Amazon even when searching under author name (Amy Sukwan) AND title. I'm sure they have embeeded algos about what comes to the top and that which does not which is poisonous to the discourse in ALL of the main ones.

Reputation does become everything in this. And it's not the name or the title, it's the actions. It had me thinking to this post regarding orbital blockchain: https://orbitallabs.substack.com/p/introduction-to-orbital-blockchain/comments

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I had to write a paper about medical malpractice lawsuits years ago. The vast majority of patients who filed suit would not have if the doctor had simply admitted to making a mistake and apologized but almost none of them do.

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A thought-provoking ponder….forget regulations and make AI free! At least for the foreseeable future, until those who currently wield the power of censorship are finally cast on the compost heap of all things DeepState / NWO Cabal.

As always, love the gems of alliteration ❤️

But especially love: “people are sick and tired of being lied to, spun, and manipulated.

the age of honesty and honor is coming”!!

👍❤️🇺🇸🌎

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calls for regulating ai are nothing more than an attempt to capture it and thus the men behind the curtains imposing their biases onto the algorithms. Grifters want us to worship the robot deity.

it is up to the individual to regulate what they allow ai to influence them into believing, it always comes down to self-reliance.

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EGM -I'm not a buyer today. Artificial intelligence will not be uncensored by its' creators. Its schema functions as a human curated and groomed answer repository. Pure mimicry. Monkey see, monkey do. AI used for diagnostic purposes, will only amplify the errors of its creators and the swallowness of THE SCIENCE i.e. Modern medicine hasn't properly conceptualized diseases. Intelligence is not the ability to regurgitate, it is the ability to filter. As its creators have amply demonstrated to date, AI will be quite crippled in that ability.

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This is. Important. Read it. Twice. Send it to your friends, family members and acquaintances (including those hoodwinked by the pandemic gaslighting and the “Climate Crisis™️”.

There are strong analogies to the control of digital currency by central banks.

But this is more important.

I’m not completely convinced that unfettered AI is a great idea (but I’d vote for that over a controlled narrative). Let’s return to a society where open public debate is not only applauded, but celebrated and expected. Let’s demand that those running away from open public debate are ignored (and ridiculed for their misplaced arrogance).

Let’s replace the “Great Reset” with a massive course change: a return to a rational world.

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Worked in darkrooms in 60’s, 70’s - one a newsroom. We had tricks of judicious cropping and enhancement / erasure under the enlarger. Perhaps there were sophisticated outlets that had more tricks, but for normal print processing it was limited, and those with an eye could spot it.

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