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John Chalos
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"Bringing the mind under control is a thing done only in the beginning." ~ Takuan Soho

. artist . writer . ninja . sage . him .
https://9chambers.wordpress.com/
Sometimes, I don't like your posts because of the number. I'm not turning a 10 into an 11. If you have a 12 I'm not making that a 13. Hecks no. I will gladly turn a 68 into a 69 or a 99 into a 100 but I'm never hitting like on 665. I enjoy all your posts though.
January 2, 2026 at 6:06 AM
It's bullshit to say algorithms are making us hate each other and dividing us. There are legitimate grievances and competing ideologies. Propaganda is rampant and we are separated into camps but they're camps we've chosen for ourselves based on upbringing, culture and belief. (1)
December 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
All my social media feeds are packed with crusaders fighting for what I believe in -- and that seems encouraging until I remember the other guys have feeds packed with crusaders fighting for what they believe in -- that these algorithms can lull us into confidence. We need to fight tooth and nail.
December 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🌲🌲🌲
December 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I have TDS. Trump Disappointment Salami. 🥪
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
This video is eleven years old now.

youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?...
Automation: How Humans Became Horses
YouTube video by CGP Grey
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December 24, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The same guys:

"You won't have to work in heaven."

"You won't have to work when you retire at sixty-five. Wait. Seventy."

"You won't have to work in the future when my A I. sims and my A.I. robots take your jobs. I will gladly pay for Universal Basic Income after dodging taxes for a generation."
December 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If corporations stop creating jobs for humans are we going to stop giving them tax breaks? 🤔
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Reposted by John Chalos
As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I had one more article on politics in me so I wrote it tonight. In the future, most of the articles on my web page will be about art. I will post short stories (both comics and prose). I will post an update here and there. Etc.

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CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL AND PREVENTABLE, CLANDESTINE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES MUST BE A HOAX:
Some pictures from my journeys as a furniture installer: I took the top left photo in 2016 on a mountaintop in Hakkoda, Japan. I took the top right photo in 2020 on the coast in Monterey, Californi…
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December 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Alright. I'm out. [sabbatical]
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you respond to them making it impossible to live on a forty hour a week job by agreeing to work fifty hours a week they'll soon make it impossible to live on a fifty hour a week job. You can respond to that by working sixty hours then seventy then eighty or you can fight back. Fight back!
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's starting to seem like they are expecting us to buy (or rent) all these robots, like they want us to be responsible for these robots at home but send them off to work at their factories. No, bro, you're going to buy your own robots for your own factory your damn self. Not my circus not my robot.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Has anyone yet referred to Game of Thrones as Stark Wars?
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 AM
If the way you watch debates is to fast forward through the other guy to see what your guy had to say then you're a doorknob.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The problem with telling people to, "trust the experts," is there are experts in both political parties and on both sides of every issue and across the political spectrum.

Same degrees from the same colleges. Veterans of the same wars. There are economists, doctors and preachers on both sides. (1)
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Private Equity Firms should be illegal.

They are buying up everything from apartment buildings to trailer parks to hospitals to residential housing and jacking up the rent and prices. Taking over private businesses and scrapping them for parts. It's a racket.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Are you having fun yet?

open.spotify.com/episode/7iBr...
Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price (re-release)
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Excellent lecture after the intro.

open.spotify.com/episode/6aGq...
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Trump could release the Epstein files tomorrow if he wanted; he could tell the FBI to release them immediately. In calling for Congress to release the files he's bluffing so he doesn't appear as scared shitless. He will continue to obstruct their release behind the scenes (as he has all along).
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"You are prey. Why are you prey?"
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What if A.I. is a psyop? Instead of it just being a worse search engine it's a building full of spies pretending to be a worse search engine. 🤔
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It's class warfare. Plain as day.
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"The rent is too damn high." ~ Jimmy McMillan
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM