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John Winkelman
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Instructor for www.sifulee.com.
Blog at www.eccesignum.org.
In a wonderful relationship with a wonderful partner (gallafe.com).
Our cats run our lives.
Thanksgiving-Eve reading, with a cat.

#JorgeLuisBorges #EfrainKristal #booksandcats
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Tai Chi class tonight (Tuesday, November 24) from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. No open class tomorrow, and no Kung Fu class on Thanksgiving. We will return to our usual schedule on Saturday the 28th.

www.sifulee.com

#TaiChi #KungFu #MartialArts #Qigong #TaiChiPrayingMantis #WestMichigan
Master Lee's School of Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Tai Chi Jeung – Traditional Chinese Martial Arts School in Grand Rapids, Michigan
www.sifulee.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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If you applied to be a panelist for ConFusion 2026, please complete the Panel Interest Survey you received recently. We need these surveys in order to complete our schedule of panels.

66 days and counting until ConFusion 2026!

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ConFusion 2026: Magical ConFusion – January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Novi, Michigan
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November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Do you have a favorite design among our swag?
November 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Please signal boost the project that is keeping first hand records.

migrantinsider.com/p/news-ice-l...
NEWS: ICE List Launches Wiki to Expose Enforcement Network
The Europe-based volunteer-built database links raids, agents, vehicles, and legal structures, aiming to break the cycle of official secrecy.
migrantinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Soon Marjorie Taylor Greene will be a nobody, and then when people type MTG we'll know they're talking about Magic the Gathering again and the world will start to heal
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Empty G is a waste of skin, space, and oxygen. The world is a worse piece for her being in it. I wish her obscurity and loneliness, howling unheard into the void, for the rest of her life.
1. Good riddance.

2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS.

www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...
Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress | HuffPost Latest News
The surprising news comes amid a public feud with President Donald Trump.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Your AI is impressive. But can it withstand the power...OF POETRY???

lithub.com/can-adversar...
Can “adversarial poetry” save us from AI?
Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large L…
lithub.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Good morning!

Classes for Saturday, 15 November, 2025:

Tai Chi Jeung, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

At the YWCA West Central Michigan. Class information here:

www.sifulee.com/school-infor...

#KungFu #TaiChi #Qigong #ChiKung #CCKTCPM #MartialArts
School Information – Master Lee's School of Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Tai Chi Jeung
www.sifulee.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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"Every Thanksgiving, I watch the greatest comedy of all time: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s beautifully written, intelligently directed, and the cast is absolute perfection. There’s just one thing that always bugs me. Why didn’t eagles take them to Chicago?"
Why Didn’t Eagles Just Fly Del and Neal to Chicago?
Every Thanksgiving, I watch the greatest comedy of all time: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s beautifully written, intelligently directed, and ...
buff.ly
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
At this point it is safe to assume that everyone who has ever voted for Trump was aware that he was a Close Personal Friend of Jeffrey Epstein, and that he partook of Epstein's wares. All of MAGA and the GOP must therefore be painted with the same brush as Trump and Epstein. They all knew.
Trump is demanding that GOP side with him over Epstein's victims, Rep Ansari tells me. She had a harrowing exchange with one victim who recounts how her mom had cancer and he exploited that.

Also note her mockery of network disclaimers on Trump. More like this, Ds:

newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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you could not script a more perfect "who are white Republican women in a nutshell?" moment than Megyn Kelly - quite famously herself a victim of an older and more powerful man's sexual misconduct - doing the "TECHNICALLY he wasn't a 'pedophile' per se" routine with a perfectly straight face
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Classes for Saturday, 8 November, 2025:

Tai Chi Jeung, 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

At the YWCA West Central Michigan. Class information here:

www.sifulee.com/school-infor...

#KungFu #TaiChi #Qigong #ChiKung #CCKTCPM #MartialArts
School Information – Master Lee's School of Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Tai Chi Jeung
www.sifulee.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The countdown is underway! 83 days until the start of Magical ConFusion on January 30. Pre-registration rates are available until December 31, after which you will need to pay at-the-door rates for your membership. Details here: 2026.confusionsf.org/registration/

#ConFusionMI #MagicalConFusion
Registration – ConFusion 2026: Magical ConFusion
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November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Let OpenAI fail. They built their business on theft. Let them crash and burn.

www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/call...
Call Your Congresscritters: OpenAI Laying the Groundwork for Massive Federal Bailout | naked capitalism
AI is not just coming for your job. Industry leaders plan to pick your pocket on a massive scale via a bailout.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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ConFusion 2026: Magical ConFusion starts three months from today in the Sheraton Detroit Novi Hotel! We still have some convention-rate rooms available, and we are looking for more volunteers and staff members. Sign up today! #ConFusionMI #ConFusionSF #MagicalConFusion

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ConFusion 2026: Magical ConFusion – January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Novi, Michigan
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October 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Gerald has a brilliant eye. Your stories will thank you. And so will readers who would otherwise have dragged you with good cause.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM