plaindavid.bsky.social
Life bending events are afoot, but i really want to know whether my kale seeds will sprout
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Haven't you heard
It's a battle of words
The poster-bearer cried
Listen, son
Said the man with a gun
There's room for you inside.
- Pink Floyd
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(full disclosure, i'm 69)
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📌 IR
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when i drop in to NYC i head straight for Chilis. #normal
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Internet down across Iran
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Demanding, domineering father
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Yes. In context with his seeming pathological need for approval, it is interesting to note reports of his appearing to credit the advice of his most recent interlocutor from wherever, above the advice of those he previously chose to be his most trusted advisors.
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/10 ... (to be cont'd)
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During the same time frame i was aware of media coverage of the Mueller investigation. Pro journalists, analysts and anchors were on it like flies. Likewise with so many statements and actions of the new president: the treaties, allies, "wall," the domestic matters. Reputable media covered these.
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Maybe this is complicated when what i experience as a "podcast" is really a video feed from a TV show. That may create a different set of dynamics.
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Also i began to notice that these posts typically would direct suspicion toward election systems without supplying evidence from credible sources that bad things had actually occurred. Nor was i seeing these accounts or their suggestions of malfeasance cited by reputable sources.
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For a while i consumed these posts eagerly. They gave me hope. Something would be found. Chicanery would be exposed. i began to notice that many of these posts were associated with a small number of accounts that seemed to be posting regularly on the same topic areas, using various approaches.
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Imagine my surprise when Twitter started serving me posts about purported irregularities with the testing of voting equipment, last minute changes to steps in vote counting procedures, apparent links between RW activists and election equipment manufacturers, on and on ... all of which i boosted.
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i circulated news reports on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic doping affair as evidence of the technical acumen of Russian state security, suggesting that the election results might have been altered in a similar way.
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Any day, i thought, we'd see more breaking news detailing surreptitious break-ins at election facilities in key districts, swapped circuit boards or piggybacked chips, malware installed either over networks or on chip devices.
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After the 2016 election, i was shocked, confused, and angry. How could my country have done this to ourselves? Surely something had gone amiss, and i was pretty sure it had to do with media reports on Russia's hacking.
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Also, i have not read the material on this topic that's being circulated here. It's possible that if i read it, my thinking could change.
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Politician circumvents spam filtering
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This is a Gift Link, thanks
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Please post a gift link
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Did even one of these luminaries consider the political rhetoric this is probably stimulating, in turn damaging the prospects of every candidate for office who's not a radical death cult fanatic
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Apparently this happens only when trying to get a pretty macro view. For example, i can't get a view that includes all of Australia, China, and United States.