Open Thread
08/26 Open Thread - Womens's Equality Day in the US
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 08/26/2024 - 5:00am~~ chains
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 08/25/2024 - 6:38am
TRUTH?
Truth is the first victim of war, as the adage goes. Truth tellers are perhaps the first victims of a corrupt injustice system. Julian led the way. Recently Scott Ritter was targeted. Richard Medhurst was arrested as a terrorist in the UK this week for telling the truth about Palestine. Last week Judge Nap was kicked off YouTube for something Pepe said. Tulsi is on the terror watch list. Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris for allowing free speech on his platform. The censorship industrial complex has jumped the shark of late, and narrative control is the goal.
Album of the Week 8-24-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 08/24/2024 - 3:00pmAfternoon folks!
This week we've got some great blues for you from Percy Mayfield and a compilation of Texas women blues singers with diverse styles. After that in the blues rock category, there's an album from Texas' Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet, an (imo) overlooked excellent album featuring Robin Trower and Jack Bruce, a late 80's album from Savoy Brown and a kind of peculiar album from Ten Years After. We finish up with some prog-rock from Gentle Giant.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
Saturday Open Thread - 8/24/24: Odds and Ends
Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 08/24/2024 - 7:00amGood morning, good people!
After the week of travel that occurred 3 weeks ago, I am still in travel mode in my mind, thinking of visiting historical sites, natural wonders, but this is the passage of time to the now, as Kamala would say.
The Evening Blues - 8-23-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 3:11pmOpen Thread - 08-23-24 - The Rub
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 08/23/2024 - 6:00amWhat result would you expect from the nexus of big money and the mainstream media in our electoral process? Big money invests in protecting big money and the media invests in making big money for the media. Big money seems to be the common denominator on this grease slickened mobius strip of an election process, wouldn't you say?
Would this current circus of an election not be the natural evolutionary point of that amalgamation of greed, deceit and avarice?
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The Evening Blues - 8-22-24
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 08/22/2024 - 3:32pmOpen Thread - Thurs 22 Aug 2024 : Meat Avatars?
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 08/22/2024 - 5:00amMeet the Meat Avatar!
Yes, that is what we all are, we are meat avatars! Or, we are going to be meat avatars as soon as the AI stuff is advanced enough.
An article on the Vice website about a meat avatar (aka a human named Victor Miller) who is helping an AI person/thing named VIC (Virtual Integrated Citizen) run for mayor in Cheyenne, Wyoming, really made me laugh in an ironic, 'what's next?' kinda way.
Miller, the meat avatar for VIC, is serious about VIC being the mayor. In another article he explains how he is going to let VIC do the voting and make the decisions as mayor. Miller will have a camera pointed at his computer all the time, so anyone can see VIC making the decisions, as Miller the meat avatar feeds the relevant information about whatever issue(s) to VIC.
One can 'meet the candidate' and find out about VIC's positions on some issues in this other article from Cap City News.
AI VIC and Victor Miller, from cowboystatedaily.com.