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Oh cool.

There’s no such integration that I’m aware of. We rely on users reporting CSAM and such.

Amazing and delightful. Best mom ever.

If you want to understand the itch that tinyman square scratches for some people online, and why they’re hostile toward attempts at dispelling those myths, read False Witness from the “Brainwashing” series.

I lived through the cold war and believed most of the propaganda. The layers of the propaganda onion are seemingly infinite. It took about 20 years to peel them all.

The convictions weren’t for Russian collusion but for financial fraud, lying under oath, and failing to register as a foreign agent/lobbyist for Ukraine & Turkey.

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.

thx!

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist, not an opinion column writer.

Please post somewhere else next time so we don’t get reports. Maybe c/history or c/ukraine.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some back channels between Iran and the USA agreed to these limited exchanges to save face and not go to war.

I’ve heard from multiple sources that this is the case, and I haven’t heard any counterarguments.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel knew this and is exposing this as a way to push the USA to war.

Doubtful. Assuming the satellite images are real (very likely), they would have gotten out anyway. These are commercial-grade resolution, akin to Google Maps.

Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel, Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

[Lem] writes that the novel goes beyond casual political satire: it puts forth the "totalization of the notion of intentionality". Explaining the concept, he writes that everything which humans perceive may be interpreted by them as a message, and that a number of "-isms" are based on interpreting the whole Universe as a message to its inhabitants. This interpretation may be exploited for political purposes and then run amok beyond their intentions.

Unfortunately I’m unable to find an English translation of his full commentary.

Edit to add: I found a translation.

ELIZA had already shown us that just because a sentence is grammatically and semantically intelligible doesn’t necessarily mean there was any intentionality behind it, but people often assume so. Until recently, texts always had been written by humans, so it’s understandable that they might assume.

“Fu Manchu made me do an imperialism.”

Sorry to hear about your investment woes, downvoters 📉

It’s fine: Gates has the best PR apparatus money can buy.

They purged the communists from the labor movement. No one remembers because they don’t want you to remember their contributions to the labor movement.

Whatever LinkedIn loser. It’s not needed anywhere, and it’s illegal in China.

📺 Richard Feynman explains.

The US funded bin Laden to weaken the USSR, and the US (and Israel and possibly the UK) funded al-Julani to weaken Syria. The US does this a lot.

Should we have forced him to shave before photographing him, like the US military did in Iraq in 2006?

Or should we clean up his image, as the US is doing right now?

grok is this true