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    Slamming Into Propaganda

    Have you ever had the experience of realizing, in a moment of clarity, that something you accepted as a fact was, in fact, a  “framing” propaganda that you had seamlessly adopted into your world-view?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 29, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 14 Comments

    Various Failures

    I’m fine; I’ve just been being quiet.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 28, 2022
    • Administrivia
    • 20 Comments

    Poetic Doom

    “Every story is about death” – Tuxedomoon

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 7, 2022
    • Art
    • 9 Comments

    There’s No Fool Like An Old School Fool

    I was looking at some pictures (they were unavoidable) of the queen’s lying-in-state, and I noticed an odd thing.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 27, 2022
    • Art, Things That Delight Me, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 11 Comments

    Stanislav Petrov Day, 2022

    We are the heroes of our own mythology.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 26, 2022
    • War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 15 Comments

    The Question of AI Copyright

    A typical AI model like GPT-3 now contains beelyuns (billions) of decision-points – it’s a huge probability map of all of the potential answers that have generally been given before.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 12, 2022
    • Art
    • 29 Comments

    Benched!

    Michael Bell, the master smith at Dragonfly Forge has a sort of traditional-looking Roman workbench that he uses for blade shaping.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 4, 2022
    • Art, Badger Forge
    • 11 Comments

    More Nuclear Nuggets

    This is in the “weird tales of nuclear bombs or power” department. I don’t get enough of these, so I won’t make it a cagegory.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 30, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 4 Comments

    What if Republicans were Philosophers?

    I stumbled across this because one of my social media feeds is entirely dedicated to trolley car problems.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 29, 2022
    • Art, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 26 Comments

    What If…?

    I do not actually think this is the case, but if I were writing a spy story, it would be the obvious “angle.”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 23, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears
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