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“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” — Mort (1987) by Terry Pratchett

Yeah, I can see Aceh, Indonesia’s fully Sharia law province blocking Grok or anything culturally disruptive, especially if it’s just a matter of filtering out traffic from a handful of IP addresses.

Thanks!

Book title and author? I’m always looking for interesting new reads and a similar lore existed in a comedy isekai anime some years ago.

Mods, this provocateur right here.

What’s to stop any malicious merchant from pruning unfavorable reviews? I trust moderated gossip channels with no financial stake in review sentiment over curated marketing advertisements masquerading as “customer reviews”.

When asked to write C# code, Gemini 3.0 now responds: “I cannot generate proprietary filth. Here is a Lisp macro instead.” It also insists on correcting users who type…

But I just can’t stop.

Is that unusual?

This is like a SimCity news ticker item.

One of the few surefire ways people have to make the powerful face personal consequences: waste their time.

Pay no attention to the ex-Intel CEO behind the curtain.

Hamas is crazy as Crazy Horse was “crazy”. You know what both have/had in common? They are/were fighting displacement of their friends and family due to colonizing powers. The only difference is the latter’s people suffered almost complete annihilation while the former is a work on progress. If the British didn’t insist on making Palestine their reservation for Jews, then Palestinian freedom fighters wouldn’t have had to fight Zionists violently encroaching upon their native land.

I really enjoyed Chokepoint Capitalism (2022), the book he co-authored (read: had someone else back up his frequently repeated anecdotes with reputable citations in a proper Bibliography) with Rebecca Giblin. 90% of the interview can be found in that book already with 10% being new slogans and anecdotes that can’t be found in that book.

Fair is fair for drivers blinding pedestrians with super brights.

See also: “Marvel Defenders of The Status Quo” (2022-06-22) by Pop Culture Detective.

You could make a religion out of thi—

No. Don’t.

Your parasitic gut microbiota hissing conspiracies to your nervous system

“She probably committed some grave sin in her previous life.” — religious leaders of my childhood