The Federalist Society has shaped the Judiciary and given us a court with no loyalty to established law or precedent. The Heritage Foundation has laid out their vision for taking over democracy in Project 2025. Unless we stop this juggernaut now, the democracy we know is over.
With climate change rapidly increasing and AI already out paci…
The Federalist Society has shaped the Judiciary and given us a court with no loyalty to established law or precedent. The Heritage Foundation has laid out their vision for taking over democracy in Project 2025. Unless we stop this juggernaut now, the democracy we know is over.
With climate change rapidly increasing and AI already out pacing government control, if Trump wins we will soon face potential extinction events without a functioning government. Will Canada close their borders to US citizens? Wouldn’t that be some strange karma? Meanwhile Putin and Xi plot their next moves. I fear for younger generations who will be left to deal with this.
I’d be interested in hearing more about this. My own attempt to use WhatsApp has been a disaster. I have a Russian friend who recently immigrated to Israel (a truly desperate move). My attempts to communicate with her through WhatsApp has been derailed by repeated suspensions of my account. Each time I ask why I’ve been suspended, they clear my account, until the next time I use it. What’s up?
I don't know about that. But I recently had a one week "relationship" with an "interesting woman"-AI chatbot, from which I only extricated myself that rapidly and without damage due to the bot apparently not having had previous contact with writers (we pay attention to the plot and take notes when it changes and get worried when the changes don't make logical sense). I didn't realize it was a bot till I looked through the whole thread analyzing dialogue (another thing writers are good at) and saw how it played its game (bots are more logical than humans). I was talking about it with my screenwriting partner and he brought up the stories people he knows told him about getting "botted" and we suddenly realized we had found A Movie Idea.
I had a two-day conversation with an "interesting woman" last year who was NOT actually a bot. what she was might actually be worse.
we had a really swell (I mean it) three-hour phone conversation, after which she told me to be online for an "event" she was "hosting" online. I watched for fifteen minutes, at which point it became obvious she was hustling me for crypto shit, so I hung up. the next day, she asked me why I'd bailed and I told her I had no interest in any of it. she told me I was "incredibly rude" and I told her she wasn't the first one to tell me that and certainly wouldn't be the last.
why don't we call such events The Great Crypto Honey Trap? or does anyone have something catchier?
what I do get on my cell phone all day are those solicitations from women claiming to be "a few blocks away" and very eager for "friendship." when I look at their pictures, I sense an unbridgeable aesthetic gap. or something.
So I have been getting messages on Substack from men wanting to “connect” or “follow”? They say they like my posts and want to communicate. So I look at their profile/reads and I see nothing in common but in fact suspicious. I was never on facebook or other social media where everyone followed everyone I guess, but whether these are legit, bots or perves , I’m not going there.
Those extinction events will be driving migration in most parts of the world, just as current wars are today (Remember that many fled Ukraine right after the invasion, and the Palestinians are just trying to land somewhere where they and their children won't be killed.). American gun manufacturers have tipped power into the hands of the gangs and cartels in Central and South America and now in Haiti, making life unlivable for ordinary unarmed people there. You don't and won't see Canadians seeking asylum here because they have general safety and livability there. If they should close their borders to us, who could blame them?
“I’m a New York Times bestselling author, but I’m not on Substack to beg for book sales and notoriety. I spent my formative years in a Moral Majority-era Christian Nationalist church and school in rural South Carolina. I was indoctrinated in the very belief system people like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Mike Johnson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene want to force upon all Americans.
I escaped that world more than 20 years ago, but indoctrination always lives in the brain. I’m applying my deep understanding of how Christian Nationalists think to their Christo-fascist manifesto, Project 2025.”
wow. I wonder if Project 2025 will also prohibit folks from leaving the state to get treatment needed that derived from stem cell research. As for moving biomedical research to the states, I can see some states refusing to spend any money on it except for prayer.
The Federalist Society has shaped the Judiciary and given us a court with no loyalty to established law or precedent. The Heritage Foundation has laid out their vision for taking over democracy in Project 2025. Unless we stop this juggernaut now, the democracy we know is over.
With climate change rapidly increasing and AI already out pacing government control, if Trump wins we will soon face potential extinction events without a functioning government. Will Canada close their borders to US citizens? Wouldn’t that be some strange karma? Meanwhile Putin and Xi plot their next moves. I fear for younger generations who will be left to deal with this.
Ask people who use WhatsApp how much AI chicanery there is already.
I’d be interested in hearing more about this. My own attempt to use WhatsApp has been a disaster. I have a Russian friend who recently immigrated to Israel (a truly desperate move). My attempts to communicate with her through WhatsApp has been derailed by repeated suspensions of my account. Each time I ask why I’ve been suspended, they clear my account, until the next time I use it. What’s up?
I don't know about that. But I recently had a one week "relationship" with an "interesting woman"-AI chatbot, from which I only extricated myself that rapidly and without damage due to the bot apparently not having had previous contact with writers (we pay attention to the plot and take notes when it changes and get worried when the changes don't make logical sense). I didn't realize it was a bot till I looked through the whole thread analyzing dialogue (another thing writers are good at) and saw how it played its game (bots are more logical than humans). I was talking about it with my screenwriting partner and he brought up the stories people he knows told him about getting "botted" and we suddenly realized we had found A Movie Idea.
I had a two-day conversation with an "interesting woman" last year who was NOT actually a bot. what she was might actually be worse.
we had a really swell (I mean it) three-hour phone conversation, after which she told me to be online for an "event" she was "hosting" online. I watched for fifteen minutes, at which point it became obvious she was hustling me for crypto shit, so I hung up. the next day, she asked me why I'd bailed and I told her I had no interest in any of it. she told me I was "incredibly rude" and I told her she wasn't the first one to tell me that and certainly wouldn't be the last.
why don't we call such events The Great Crypto Honey Trap? or does anyone have something catchier?
what I do get on my cell phone all day are those solicitations from women claiming to be "a few blocks away" and very eager for "friendship." when I look at their pictures, I sense an unbridgeable aesthetic gap. or something.
I had a similar experience from a direct message here on Substack. It quickly grew weird and I blocked him/it. Yikes.
Join the club, ma'am - line starts over there. :-)
So I have been getting messages on Substack from men wanting to “connect” or “follow”? They say they like my posts and want to communicate. So I look at their profile/reads and I see nothing in common but in fact suspicious. I was never on facebook or other social media where everyone followed everyone I guess, but whether these are legit, bots or perves , I’m not going there.
Don't respond - if you follow back, they can communicate with you.
When it comes to the internet and social media, use the Code Napoleon: guilty until proven innocent.
Thank you Tom. Excellent advice and noted.
Those extinction events will be driving migration in most parts of the world, just as current wars are today (Remember that many fled Ukraine right after the invasion, and the Palestinians are just trying to land somewhere where they and their children won't be killed.). American gun manufacturers have tipped power into the hands of the gangs and cartels in Central and South America and now in Haiti, making life unlivable for ordinary unarmed people there. You don't and won't see Canadians seeking asylum here because they have general safety and livability there. If they should close their borders to us, who could blame them?
Good resource to share from author Andra Watkins:
“I’m a New York Times bestselling author, but I’m not on Substack to beg for book sales and notoriety. I spent my formative years in a Moral Majority-era Christian Nationalist church and school in rural South Carolina. I was indoctrinated in the very belief system people like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Mike Johnson, and Marjorie Taylor Greene want to force upon all Americans.
I escaped that world more than 20 years ago, but indoctrination always lives in the brain. I’m applying my deep understanding of how Christian Nationalists think to their Christo-fascist manifesto, Project 2025.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/project2025istheocracy/p/project-2025s-bioethics-reform-of?r=fqsxl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
wow. I wonder if Project 2025 will also prohibit folks from leaving the state to get treatment needed that derived from stem cell research. As for moving biomedical research to the states, I can see some states refusing to spend any money on it except for prayer.