Notices by JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized (jwcph@helvede.net), page 2

I thought muting a conversation was supposed to stop notifications from piling up? Doesn't seem to work that way for me - so, uh, what exactly does it do, then...?

@forteller Well, not forever - but until some sort of bloody revolt overthrows him or his offspring.

One of the baffling things about dictatorships is that every single dictator not only expects to rule for life; they actually expect to never die - metaphorically or, not uncommonly, literally, because they're not sane - yet history shows that dictatorships don't endure. Each one of them thinks they're The One™️ who will beat the odds...

Surprisingly little, for one reason in particular: Neither he nor anyone on his team has an iota of grace or restraint.

The people saying this is a game-changer event for the GOP campaign assume they'll be able to capitalize on it, but they'll drive it into the ground in very short order. I mean, the FIRST THING 45 should have done was to visit, or at least address the family of the attendee who died & acknowledge their loss but, being a selfish oaf, he can't.

https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/112786788512784349

"[Trump] has dominated the scene for nine years already, and he and his supporters hope they can use yesterday’s appalling event to extend the Trump era to the end of his life and beyond.

The American political and social system cannot treat such a person as an alien. It inevitably accommodates and naturalizes him. His counselors, even the thugs and felons, join the point-counterpoint dialogue at the summit of the American elite..." - David Frum

https://zirk.us/@vcaston/112785996401955118

@bmacDonald94 - or, in simplified meme form...

What the f**k is #AI doing in a #photography contest in the first place? Not a picture contest, a photography contest - do these people not know what "photography" means?

Text prompting & then having a statistical engine poop out some pixels is about as far from actually taking a picture as you can get. The prompt "artist" makes zero decisions about composition, content, color etc. & DOESN'T ACTUALLY DO PHOTOGRAPHY!

https://mastodon.social/@triketora/112610664901049371

@mcc - and these are the kinds of companies we're supposed to trust to build intelligent machines. They can't even build stupid ones that work right.

An important article I like to keep pinned - useful when any debate involving "the paradox of tolerance" inevitably goes off the rails 👉 https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376

#YonathanZunger

@futurebird @sysfrank They absolutely are. There's no such thing as a smart fascist, as @Catvalente explains here in her article "There's no such thing as a smart fascist" 👉 https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist