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relevantusername.bsky.social
As much as I dislike and criticize Google, I appreciate the subtle difference in how they wrote this compared to... literally every other story I have ever read about politics

10₧s if you can figure out what I'm referencing

blog.google/outreach-ini...
Legal action can address a single operation; robust public policy can address the broader threat of scams. We are collaborating with policymakers and are today announcing our endorsement of key bipartisan bills in the U.S. Congress. We encourage Congress to enact these crucial bills and help bring a decisive end to the financial harm and damage wrought by foreign cybercriminals. Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception (GUARD) Act sponsored by Sens. Britt (AL), Scott (FL), Gillibrand (NY) and Reps. Nunn (IA-03), Fitzgerald (WI-05), and Gottheimer (NJ-05): This legislation would empower state and local law enforcement by enabling them to utilize federal grant funding to investigate financial fraud and scams specifically targeting retirees. Foreign Robocall Elimination Act sponsored by Sens. Budd (NC) and Welch (VT): This legislation would establish a taskforce focused on how to best block foreign-originated illegal robocalls before they ever reach American consumers. Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization (SCAM) Act sponsored by Sens. Cornyn (TX) and Shaheen (NH): This legislation would develop a national strategy to counter scam compounds, enhance sanctions and support survivors of human trafficking within these compounds. Beyond taking legal action and supporting policies that protect people, we are also launching new features like using AI to flag common scam messages like fake toll fees or package deliveries. We’re also protecting people from malicious links and scams in Google Messages. And if you are the victim of an account compromise, we’re making it safer and easier to regain access to your account by expanding account recovery options with Recovery Contacts. We also continue to intensify public education and partnership efforts to help users recognize and avoid fraud. We hope these efforts will help more people be safe online.
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
weird

bsky.app/profile/rele...
https://bsky.app/profile/relevantusername.bsky.social/post/3m5htdjevu226
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Also
formatting
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
>"concerns that the voices shaping global conflict reporting are often narrow and predictable."

My concerns extend far beyond (what is intended by) "conflict reporting". But that's another topic.

A related point made by Neil Postman, many years ago:
Consider who was interviewed by journalists during the US Iraqi War on television and radio and in the press generals. Experts on weapons systems and Pentagon officials dominated. No artists were interviewed. No historians, no novelists, no theologians, no school teachers, no doctors. Is war the business only of military experts? Is what they have to say about the war the only prospective citizens need to have? I should think that weapons system experts would be the last people to be interviewed on the matter of war. Perhaps the absence of any others may be accounted for by saying the first casualty of war is wisdom. Stay awake. I can envision a future in which what I've been saying about wisdom will be commonplace in newspapers. I cannot envision exactly how this will be done, although I rather like imagining a time when in addition to OP-ed pages, we will have wisdom pages filled with relevant questions about the stories that have been covered, questions directed, those who offer different bodies of knowledge from those which the stories themselves confront. I can even imagine a time when the news will be organized not according to the standard format of local, regional, national and World News, but according to some other organizing principle, for example, the seven deadly sins of greed, lust, envy, and so on. Do I ask too much of editors, too much of newspapers? Well, perhaps, but I say what I do because we live now in a world of too much information, confusing specialized knowledge and too little wisdom. Journalists may think it is not their job to offer the wisdom, I say, why not? Who can say where their responsibilities as journalists end? The problem to be solved in the twenty first century is not how to move information, not the engineering of information. We solved that problem long ago. The problem is how to transform information into knowledge and how to transform knowledge into wisdom. If we can solve that problem, all the rest will take care of itself.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
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follow link, too many words
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I really dislike how the format of this website splits up every thing requiring additional clicks

It's as if our modern communications technology almost always directly impedes actual communication

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there's more info in each post
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Are you sure?

en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:36...
Lore:36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 30 - UESP Wiki
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
The reason there is a "deficit" is US govt is nonfunctional & instead of taxing excess wealth, they borrow

Causing the oroboros w/ "interest payments"

That the US is ranked highly in global measures is a testament to how distorted it is - the vast majority of us have zero real freedom or "wealth"
https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1n7mcyu/comment/ncg7r4h
November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
#philanthropy #fraud #scam
#HowAboutFuckingPayTaxesIfYouHaveAnyMoneyAfterTrebleDamages

#UnionsTaxesAndHumanRightsAreTheNonViolentSolution

#facts

See the link (ie the linked post above & the link below this text) for fun news stories from the fourth dimension (do it)

www.loc.gov/resource/sn9...
philanthropy is a scam
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
This graph in particular made things very clear

(though missing much of the context explained in the other parts of this thread as well as my voluminous posts everywhere)

(Also very relevant to recent elections, like Zohran Mamdani who is apparently a bit younger than I am)
A graph (taken from the link in the previous post) showing the average age of members of congress at start of term 1947-2013 where there was a significant dip in average age around 1980 that has since gone far higher than it was at the beginning of the graph
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
But here's a screenshot that was one of my more recent uhh what I'll call "clinchers" that pushed my personal conviction from mostly suspecting to more or less knowing
screenshot of an article about different terms and concepts discussing societal uhh organization in China where one of the terms is listed with the Chinese characters that when translated says "people born in the 1980s or 1990s that are not trusted"
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
It is relational and relative (but also, that is, itself, illusory)

Which gets awfully complicated (but very simple) with modern communications technology :)

>"The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."

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If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do ; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat. In short, oddities only strike ordinary people. Oddities do not strike odd people. This is why ordinary people have a much more exciting time ; while odd people are always complaining of the dulness of life. This is also why the new novels die so quickly, and why the old fairy tales endure for ever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy ; it is his adventures that are startling ; they startle him because he is normal. But in the modern psychological novel the hero is abnormal ; the centre is not central. Hence the fiercest adventures fail to affect him adequately, and the book is monotonous. Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad ; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers ; but creative artists very seldom. said that free will was lunacy, because it meant causeless actions, and the actions of a lunatic would be causeless. I do not dwell here upon the disastrous lapse in determinist logic. Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
!Also me

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%21%2C%3B%2C%E2%9D%A6%2C%E2%9D%A7%2C%E2%97%8A%2C%C2%A7%2C%E2%80%BD%2C%E2%80%A1%2C%E2%80%A0%2C%C2%B6&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
#standards #formatting #webdev #tech #harm

For example here is a screenshot of an article I was reading as presented by default in my browser and a screenshot of the entire text of that article copied into notepad, where the entire article is visible on my screen at once.
a screenshot showing three paragraphs total a screenshot showing all 20,952 characters at once
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
ia804601.us.archive.org/27/items/fai...
https://ia804601.us.archive.org/27/items/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w.-bush-the-new-york-times/Faith%2C%20Certainty%20and%20the%20Presidency%20of%20George%20W.%20Bush%20-%20The%20New%20York%20Times.pdf
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Almost all statistics are probably mostly close to accurate, probably

The highlighted text and what I'm definitely not implying idk what you're talking about certainly does not have majorly consequential extrapolations for an increasingly diverse population
“That was really fulfilling,” says Snook. “I get such satisfaction out of identifying someone who thinks they have got away with a crime.” Porritt and Smith would like all new and existing police recruits to be tested for their facial recognition skills. “In 1902, when fingerprints were first used to solve crime, there was a lot of scepticism,” says Smith. “I believe super-recognisers are the way forward.” If about 1-2% of the population have super-recogniser ability, and there are roughly 48,000 officers and police staff in the Met, “we have 480 super-recognisers lurking around that we need to find”.
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I'm not out of order, this courts out of order or something
I've read a decent amount about Trump and his history. By which I mean - in addition to my generally higher than average ability to figure out "what makes people tick" - I think I have a fair understanding of the type of person he is and was. My first thought about this article was the younger Donald would not like the current one. But as with most things, the first reaction is close - but not quite. The second is about as good as it gets. Rule of thumb: after two things only become unnecessarily complicated. Except when there's three - but never four. It's complicated Anyway, my second thought was the younger Donald would love the current one. Why? Because he would be able to scam the shit out of him so goddamn easily
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I think this'll be all from me til after the conclusion of my next sleep

"reflect reality"

Yep, this sure is a-round what is true. Nice, inoffensive, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, #phalanx type reasoning.

Un-less

www.etymonline.com/search?q=ref...
reflect(v.) late 14c., reflecten, "turn or bend (something) back, reverse;" early 15c., "to divert, to turn (something) aside, deflect," from Old French reflecter (14c.), from Latin reflectere "to bend back, bend backwards, turn away," from re- "back" (see re-) + flectere "to bend" (see flexible). Of mirrors or other bodies or surfaces, "to shine back light rays or images," early 15c., later also of heat or sound. The meaning "to turn one's thoughts back on, resolve matters in the mind" is from c. 1600. Related: Reflected; reflecting. Middle English also had a separate verb reflexen "refract (light); deflect" (early 15c.), directly from Latin reflexus, past participle of reflectere.
November 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Amusingly the title of the chapter following that explanation is "The Return of the Demons"

Which, though I haven't read it (re: arbitrary impediments), I am going to guess TLDR:

We fear what we do not understand

More on that later (or earlier if you read my reddit comments)
...conceived law of causation, society has not found a new rational basis to replace the mechanical rationalization of the world which disappears with the collapsing belief in capitalism and Marxist socialism. The destruction of the order in which the individual has a rational place and a rational function necessarily invalidates also the old order of values, which was a rational order of rational values. Freedom and equality, the two cornerstones of this order, are values which are intelligible and endowed with meaning only as applied to a rational society. Can they have any meaning to the bewildered, isolated individual in a society that has itself lost all rational meaning? And how does the individual react, how is he affected by this destruction of his own rational existence? Which ends that chapter, the next one titled "THE RETURN OF THE DEMONS"
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I would elaborate these next points further but arbitrarily imposed technical difficulties are impeding my reading

Therefore I will err towards less is more

#Spooky action at a distance as explained in the book

"The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism", 1939
There's more on the page, but specifically referring to: Whatever the physicists may mean by their denial of causation and its replacement by Chance, they imply that they have reached and even overstepped the limits of a mechanical conception of the world. In the same way in which the physicists cannot find a new rational substitute for their mechanically... (continued in next post)
November 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Or they're old which is another major issue. Excuse me sir your time is over

But nah it's cool, it's not like old people refusing to give up control or help younger generations is having any severe irreversible effects on human life
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
For example, I'm a literal tree hugger but green energy regulation is largely a flat tax on energy which means it makes life unaffordable.

Just don't pollute, clean it if you do

Govt tax incentives are a blight

For reasons best explained a long time ago:

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._L...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
October 29, 2025 at 12:09 AM
relevantusername.bsky.social
First is tangentially unrelated, the second's nice & simple

(More good word stuff at No. 2's links)

One of the oldest principles in law that (supposedly) states (TLDR) the aggressor is always the guilty party (duh?)

Surprise! It isn't the lion.

Remember Cecil? Maybe I am a time traveler.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1jgfcfq/comment/mj11ucw/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/1jwegu6/comment/mmj1fsa/?context=3
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
Page three had some of the best though. Not only - definitely not - but specifically one using a word very popular in modern times w/ certain a type of person.

Be cause it doth re lightened my mynde of another olde ayse booke I quoted a lounge thyme a go on yonder reddit
shout out my homies vice, common sense, praise v profit (hmm), compassion v reality (hmm), consideration begat the egg, and of course the philosophers stone which follows the egg the one I was referring in the post text will be explayned at some point in the future assuming the apocalypse doesn't strike me dead so I can get magick powers and smite the dipshits or whatever before I get to it
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
relevantusername.bsky.social
I then did what I do & searched a key word

In this #case: #contempt. Three results and all surrounding text is as wise as expected. I started to highlight some of the best, but by halfway down the first column of page one I had highlighted almost all so I stopped there.
alt text machine broke follow the link alt text machine broke follow the link
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM