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  <title>Akje Majdanek</title>
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    <name>Akje Majdanek</name>
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  <updated>2026-03-15T19:36:43Z</updated>
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    <title>ヽ(°Д°)ﾉ</title>
    <published>2026-03-15T19:31:13Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-15T19:36:43Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/80775.html#cutid1"&gt;More blather about MAGA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=80775" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:80198</id>
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    <title>ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ</title>
    <published>2026-03-09T03:15:37Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-09T22:51:15Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/80198.html#cutid1"&gt;Blather about MAGA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=80198" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:79982</id>
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    <title>(♯^.^ღ)</title>
    <published>2026-03-06T21:01:30Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-06T21:01:30Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Been pondering late stage capitalism lately. But does America even have capitalism anymore?  Under capitalism, companies compete by improving their products and services while lowering costs to remain competitive. What we have in America now is a handful of multinationals buying up all their competition so the consumers have no choice but to purchase from them─there &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; no competition anymore. We just have a collection of monopolies. Products and services degrade as a result, while prices increase for the consumer so the executives can make a larger profit for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to make it illegal for any entity to own more than one business or company. These corporations shouldn't be allowed to diversify the way they do. The consumer suffers because of it.  If only we had a government of the people, by the people and for the people, that looks out for the flipping &lt;i&gt;people...&lt;/i&gt;  (ง︡'-'︠)ง&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=79982" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:79586</id>
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    <title>(⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)</title>
    <published>2026-01-08T20:38:14Z</published>
    <updated>2026-01-10T02:43:53Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">In regards to the murder of Renée Good by an ICE agent yesterday, it's not at all surprising to me that the arguments MAGAts keep using online sound exactly the same as the arguments their ancestors used to justify lynchings in the Old South: &lt;i&gt;"If the suspect wasn't guilty of anything, he wouldn't have tried to flee from a mob of perfectly harmless white men!"&lt;/i&gt; yada yada. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's embarrassing just how fast the backwoods baboons are taking over America under that uneducated ignoramus in the Awful Office. (-᷅_-᷄๑)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=79586" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:77252</id>
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    <title>(*・_・)ノ⌒*</title>
    <published>2025-09-27T20:09:19Z</published>
    <updated>2025-09-27T20:09:19Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Welp, we knew the fuckers were eventually coming for Wikipedia since all the content is in the public domain. Thought it might take longer, though. Glad to hear they're still so inept.  ☜(ˆ▿ˆc)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lithub.com/heres-a-handy-guide-to-help-you-spot-ai-writing/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/118756.jpg" alt="LitHub&amp;#39;s How to Spot AI Writing" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/118961.jpg" alt="Wikipedia&amp;#39;s Signs of AI Writing" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=77252" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:76150</id>
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    <title>(ง︡'-'︠)ง</title>
    <published>2025-08-27T17:23:47Z</published>
    <updated>2025-08-27T17:23:47Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">And speaking of looney, it's a sad day in Hell when Looney Tunes characters know more about the US Constitution than the actual President, Congress and Supreme Court do.   (⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTiNz8xpYQ"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/118527.jpg" alt="Daffy Duck for President" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=76150" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>( -.-)\(^◡^ )</title>
    <published>2025-06-25T17:17:19Z</published>
    <updated>2025-07-22T19:50:23Z</updated>
    <category term="artificial intelligence"/>
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    <content type="html">Is anyone honestly surprised by this?  Real writers have known it all along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/75011.html#cutid1"&gt;►&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=75011" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>ヽ(°Д°)ﾉ</title>
    <published>2025-05-11T22:31:13Z</published>
    <updated>2025-05-11T22:31:13Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Why do so many people think there's a birth dearth? I'm not talking about these YouTubers; I'm talking about the natalists who prompted the videos in the first place.  The pro-natalists seem to think the earth once had a zillion people which has now been reduced to 8 billion. So very wrong. The number right now is the highest in history. Never before in the 4½ billion years of Earth's existence have there been as many people on the globe as there are right now, this very second. The population is always growing; it never decreases significantly for any length of time, even when there's a major pandemic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/74667.html#cutid1"&gt;►&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=74667" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(ﾉД｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡</title>
    <published>2025-05-01T01:28:19Z</published>
    <updated>2025-05-01T01:28:19Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Tell it like it is, bro.  (ﾉД`)ヽ ˓(ˊᘩˋ⋆) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://litreactor.com/columns/will-ai-replace-writers"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/105903.png" alt="artificial intelligence" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=74451" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:73621</id>
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    <title>(òᴥóし)</title>
    <published>2025-03-17T23:26:57Z</published>
    <updated>2025-03-21T01:39:49Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Oh, rah.  (ノ_&amp;lt;、)ヾ(´▽｀)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ai-can-match-humans-task-will-five-10-years-google-deepmind-ceo-says-rcna196771"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/104749.png" alt="AI that can match humans at any task will be here in five to ten years, says Google DeepMind CEO" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=73621" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:72976</id>
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    <title>(－‸ლ)</title>
    <published>2025-02-27T20:44:57Z</published>
    <updated>2025-02-27T21:00:02Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">There's no point in commenting on Donald Trump anymore. Every time I start a post about something stupid, offensive or illegal he's done, he does something even &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; idiotic, offensive or illegal the very next day. It's impossible to keep up with the stupid, and a waste of my time. Here's a list of people who have his number and actually get &lt;i&gt;paid&lt;/i&gt; to point out what a fucking moron/criminal he is: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ColbertLateShow/videos"&gt;Stephen Colbert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyKimmelLive/videos"&gt;Jimmy Kimmel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LateNightSeth/videos"&gt;Seth Meyers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LastWeekTonight/videos"&gt;John Oliver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WeeklyShowPodcast/videos"&gt;Jon Stewart&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/thedailyshow/videos"&gt;The Daily Show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/theview/videos"&gt;The View&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AOC/videos"&gt;Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BernieSanders/videos"&gt;Bernie Sanders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SenatorSanders/videos"&gt;more Bernie Sanders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@RepJasmine/videos"&gt;Jasmine Crockett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TraeCrowderLiberalRedneck/videos"&gt;Liberal Redneck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch/videos"&gt;MeidasTouch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@podsaveamerica/videos"&gt;Pod Save America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ivehaditpodcast/videos"&gt;I've Had It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@RawNewsAndPolitics/videos"&gt;Raw News &amp; Politics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ProgressivePerspective1138/videos"&gt;Progressive Perspective&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@ABCNews/videos"&gt;ABC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CBSNews/videos"&gt;CBS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@NBCNews/videos"&gt;NBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/videos"&gt;MSNBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CNN/videos"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BBCNews/videos"&gt;BBC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for the fuckwads who voted for him, it's like that brainless narcoleptic my roommate dated in college. He was always falling asleep at the wheel, and whenever we woke him up he'd just argue with us when we told him he'd fallen asleep. The only way to prove it to him was to let him crash into a tree. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They won't respond to logic or reason; they refuse to admit MAGA is a hate group: a white supremacist, misogynistic, "Christian" nationalist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, anti-trans—oh, hell...it's easier to just list what they &lt;i&gt;like&lt;/i&gt; than what they hate. They like cisgen white evangelic men. That's about it. They hate everyone else. But there's no proving it to MAGAts. Like the narcoleptic buffoon, they need to find out for themselves.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=72976" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(ﾉД`)ヽ</title>
    <published>2024-12-06T19:04:12Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-06T19:05:11Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">And because the news isn't good enough, here's some more.  ☜(ˆ▿ˆc)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91236515/how-ai-is-accelerating-and-devaluing-book-publishing"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/104480.jpg" alt="How AI is accelerating and devaluing book publishing.  Artificial intelligence is pushing the publishing world toward volume. That could drown out the good work." /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sure do love working for over a year on a work as well-crafted and unique as I can make it, only to have greedy, selfish opportunists keep my book down by piling a bunch of AI-generated fake books on top of it.  (-᷅_-᷄๑)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=72449" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>˓(ᑊᘩᑊ⋆)</title>
    <published>2024-11-18T19:36:05Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-04T14:43:51Z</updated>
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    <category term="lithub"/>
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    <content type="html">More good news on the AI front!    ﾍ( ´Д`)ﾉ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="https://lithub.com/harpercollins-is-selling-their-authors-work-to-ai-tech/"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/104435.jpg" alt="Harper Collins is selling their authors&amp;#39; work to AI tech company" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=72431" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:72069</id>
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    <title>(òᴥóし)</title>
    <published>2024-11-18T18:35:28Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-04T14:44:17Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Now the talk is about &lt;a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/group-seeks-to-address-americas-deep-political-divisions/"&gt;how to unify Republicans and Democrats&lt;/a&gt;, as if that's a problem. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never was. Conservatives and liberals will always have their differences, but that's not a problem. There are plenty of marriages out there to prove it.  James Carville/Mary Matalin and Joe Scarborough/Mika Brzezinski jump to mind.  What we have today is something quite different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On one side we have Republicans, Democrats and Independents. On the other side we have MAGA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who didn't get the memo, MAGA is a hate group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;A hate group.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A misogynistic, white supremacist, "Christian" nationalist, anti-democratic hate group.  They are un-American.  They just don't realize it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Normalizing MAGA would be like the Germans saying, &lt;i&gt;"We need to make peace with the Nazis and reunify Germany!"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um, no. No, we don't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What needs to happen is this: the Nazis need to cease to exist; they are evil. There is no benefit to humanity in normalizing evil. After the war, the Nazis who weren't executed for their crimes were rehabilitated. Deprogrammed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that's exactly what needs to happen with MAGA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=72069" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:71919</id>
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    <title>(ノ_&amp;lt;、)ヾ(´▽｀)</title>
    <published>2024-11-13T04:41:49Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-04T14:44:38Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">The finger pointing's begun, and everyone's blaming the economy for Chump's win. But Trump has no plan for the economy; &lt;a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/15/watch-live-former-president-trump-speaks-to-the-economic-club-of-chicago/"&gt;the only economic plan&lt;/a&gt; he's mentioned is tariffs, which will raise costs on all imported goods. Kamala's economic policy was endorsed by &lt;a href="https://fortune.com/2024/10/24/nobel-prize-winners-kamala-harris-economists-endorsement/"&gt;23 Nobel prize-winning economists&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/31/a-second-trump-term-comes-with-unacceptable-risks"&gt;The Economist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;; while the Wall Street Journal, owned by Rupert Murdoch, &lt;a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-harris-election-inflation-0797554a"&gt;said her economic plan was superior to Trump's&lt;/a&gt;. So it's not the economy, stupid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope, the blame is going everywhere but where it belongs ─ on the voters. Over the past 40 years that Trump's been in the public eye, he's proven himself to be an immature little boy in the body of an old coot, with all the impulse control of a ten-year-old ─ no insult intended to ten-year-olds. He's a white supremacist, a misogynist, a rapist, a convicted felon, guilty of treason (remember the coup?), and yet the majority of uneducated clodpoles voted for him anyhow. Argh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now we're all trapped in that &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)"&gt;Twilight Zone episode&lt;/a&gt; where Bill Mumy is a little boy with unfettered powers who rules the town with an iron fist.  ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the democrats ever &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; regain control of the government, there's a number of things they need to do. Somewhere near the top of the list is to pass legislation requiring that all podcasters and other alternate news sources based in America conform to FCC regulations regarding journalistic integrity and standards, making it illegal for any of these outlets to spread conspiracy theories and misinformation ever again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Number two is to fix the supreme court and overturn that idiotic immunity ruling. There's no excuse for a US president to commit a crime in the performance of his duty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It goes without saying that we need to eliminate the electoral college.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to introduce legislation preventing anyone guilty of treason from running for office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We need to pass legislation placing all of the financial burden of book bans entirely on the banners. Right now they're blowing our tax dollars on this foolishness, and that's not what our tax money was allocated for. If they want to ban books, they should have to pay for it out of their own pockets. Let's see how many books they ban &lt;i&gt;then&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To prevent the creation of any more illiterate voters, we need to bring American schools up to the level of Sweden, Denmark and Japan. American students should not be graduating unable to read. As for their critical thinking skills...&lt;a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyholt1/teacher-discusses-gop-conspiracies-in-class"&gt;sheesh&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we need to make it illegal for Congress to award themselves pay raises, or else make it legal for every other American worker to award themselves pay raises whenever they feel like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=71919" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:71586</id>
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    <title>(ﾉ｀□´)ﾉ⌒ ┻━┻</title>
    <published>2024-11-12T15:47:25Z</published>
    <updated>2024-12-04T14:45:01Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">I have never been so ashamed of America.  (-᷅_-᷄๑)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=71586" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:71206</id>
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    <title>ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ</title>
    <published>2024-09-25T01:29:46Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-12T15:56:19Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">An embarrassing number of people keep saying ignorant shit like, &lt;i&gt;"I don't really see much difference between Trump and Harris. It's business as usual either way."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, let me help you with that.  ( -.-)\(^◡^ )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Donald Trump:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•   promoted QAnon&lt;br /&gt;•   is a climate change denier&lt;br /&gt;•   claims immigrants poison America&lt;br /&gt;•   is endorsed by the KKK, the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Moms for Liberty&lt;br /&gt;•   plans a mass deportation of perfectly legal immigrants&lt;br /&gt;•   is racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, antisemitic, lookist and ableist&lt;br /&gt;•   ridiculed a reporter with a disability&lt;br /&gt;•   told his nephew that disabled people should die&lt;br /&gt;•   is a five time draft dodger who calls people who served, like my dad, suckers and losers&lt;br /&gt;•   had a henchman attack an Arlington official rather than obey the rules there&lt;br /&gt;•   tear-gassed peaceful protestors so he could have a photo-op while holding the Bible&lt;br /&gt;•   totally failed America during the covid pandemic&lt;br /&gt;•   raped E. Jean Carroll&lt;br /&gt;•   is accused of sexually harassing at least 40 other women&lt;br /&gt;•   paid hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels&lt;br /&gt;•   is guilty of treason for inciting an insurrection at the US capitol&lt;br /&gt;•   tried to overturn election results in Georgia&lt;br /&gt;•   keeps hundreds of stolen classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home&lt;br /&gt;•   is under investigation by the state of New York for financial fraud&lt;br /&gt;•   faces an additional 54 felony counts for 3 outstanding federal and state indictments&lt;br /&gt;•   stacked the Supreme Court with corrupt judges who gave him immunity from prosecution&lt;br /&gt;•   evidently needs to commit crimes in the official performance of his duties as President&lt;br /&gt;•   if you need to commit a crime to do your job, you're doing it wrong&lt;br /&gt;•   refuses to legally license music used at his rallies&lt;br /&gt;•   those are just the things I can remember off the top of my head&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Kamala Harris:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•   seems to be sane&lt;br /&gt;•   has never been accused of a crime&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do I even need to mention &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025"&gt;Project 2025&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47"&gt;Agenda 47&lt;/a&gt; anymore?  Seriously, people...use your fucking brains!  (ง︡'-'︠)ง&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the love of God, vote blue. Our survival as a nation and a democracy depends on it, no lie. It's ridiculously simple:  democracy vs. dictatorship. This is a no-brainer.  ﾍ( ´Д`)ﾉ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=71206" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:71037</id>
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    <title>(⊙.⊙(-̶●̃ₒ●̶̃)⊙.⊙)</title>
    <published>2024-09-21T20:10:48Z</published>
    <updated>2024-09-25T01:11:23Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Let's be crystal clear on this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Republican is a political party, and I have nothing whatsoever against Republicans. My father &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; one. But like any sane person, he despises Trump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trump is not a Republican. He's a MAGAT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MAGA is a cult and a hate group. A misogynistic, homophobic, white supremacist, "Christian" nationalist, anti-democratic, anti-woke hate group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/71037.html#cutid1"&gt;►&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=71037" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2015-08-29:2438364:70910</id>
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    <title>(♯ᴖ.ლ)</title>
    <published>2024-09-07T23:51:17Z</published>
    <updated>2024-09-08T00:09:26Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Um...okay.  One of my writing communities is actually encouraging people to plagiarize other people’s books because one of their sponsors is an AI company, and in doing so they lost another sponsor. Way to go, NaNoWriMo!  (&amp;gt;‿◠)✌&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/29933455931412-What-is-NaNoWriMo-s-position-on-Artificial-Intelligence-AI"&gt; NaNoWriMo on AI &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.wired.com/story/nanowrimo-organizers-classist-and-ableist-to-condemn-ai/"&gt; NaNoWriMo Says It's Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://bossrush.net/2024/09/02/nanowrimos-ai-stance-is-a-blow-to-disabled-creators/"&gt; NaNoWriMo’s AI Stance is a Blow to Disabled Creators &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://ellipsus.com/blog/nanowrimo-sponsorship-generative-ai"&gt; We're Stepping Down as a NaNo Sponsor. Here's Why. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lithub.com/nanowrimo-defends-writing-with-ai-and-pisses-off-the-whole-internet/"&gt; NaNoWriMo Defends Writing With AI and Pisses Off the Whole Internet &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=70910" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(òᴥóし)</title>
    <published>2024-09-06T19:08:34Z</published>
    <updated>2024-09-06T22:12:46Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">So there's been yet another school shooting, this time in Georgia, and Vance says shootings are just a fact of life. &lt;a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5101684/preventing-school-shootings"&gt;Reality begs to differ with him&lt;/a&gt;. Funny, but when I was growing up there were no school shootings. There was the very distant memory of that nut in the tower at the University of Texas, but strangely no one remembers that one anymore since there have been so many others lately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/70481.html#cutid1"&gt;Evidently I'm not alone...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=70481" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(×_×)</title>
    <published>2024-08-31T13:50:36Z</published>
    <updated>2024-08-31T13:50:36Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">The only reason that someone--anyone--can't see the difference at this point between a rapist/insurrectionist and a woman who's never committed any crimes is because that person is a misogynist. So I'm afraid we can't be friends anymore. I'm just so fucking tired of it.  (ง︡'-'︠)ง&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=70230" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(ノ_&amp;lt;、)ヾ(´▽｀)</title>
    <published>2024-08-09T03:13:42Z</published>
    <updated>2024-08-09T14:04:06Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Like everyone else lately, I'm scrambling to figure out what a &lt;a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/11/27/the-insidious-rise-of-tradwives-a-right-wing-fantasy-is-rotting-young-mens-minds/"&gt;tradwife&lt;/a&gt; is thanks to Vance.  I remember this now. It has a new name, but it's the same old oppressed fundie wife we've seen so many times before&lt;b&gt;:&lt;/b&gt;  a victim of Biblical gender roles and the rejection of the Proverbs 31 woman who buys her own vineyards, works outside the home and employs servants. I wrote a book on these pathetic fembots once, but no one liked what I had to say.  I have some thoughts...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; •   tradwives and housewives are not the same thing&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives are not infantilized women&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives certainly don't speak in a phony, breathy baby voice&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives don't submit to their husbands&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives don't waste time making everything from scratch&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives just live their lives without trying to indoctrinate other women&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives don't teach their daughters it's sinful to go to college&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives don't teach their daughters to depend solely on a man&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives aren't opposed to working outside the home&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives aren't opposed to female independence and bodily autonomy&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives are allowed to have male friends&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives are allowed to keep the money they earn&lt;br /&gt; •   housewives have their own bank accounts&lt;br /&gt; •   tradwives do have the right to choose their lifestyle&lt;br /&gt; •   tradwives should &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; have the right to impose their lifestyle on their daughters&lt;br /&gt; •   their daughters have the right to choose their own lifestyle&lt;br /&gt; •   they cannot choose wisely if they haven't experienced any other way of life&lt;br /&gt; •   fundies aren't actually Christians since they reject the egalitarianism of Christ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=69704" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(ง︡'-'︠)ง</title>
    <published>2024-08-06T21:55:04Z</published>
    <updated>2024-08-06T21:55:04Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">The argument here once again is:  are people more talented and unique than A.I.?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer, though, doesn't matter. The author never bothers to ask the real question:  will employers care that humans are superior if they can make more money by replacing those superior humans with inferior A.I.?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the answer to this, of course, is NO.  Employers are goddamn greedy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So why are all those tradwives and Hollywood celebrities breeding like vermin instead of sustainably?  I'd really like to know where the wisdom is in creating a whole generation of unemployed homeless people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(ノ-_-)ノ ︵ ┻━┻&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/in-the-age-of-ai-what-makes-people-unique"&gt;&lt;img src="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/file/103247.jpg" alt="One human amongst a number of AI clones" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=69443" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>ʕʘ.ʘʔ</title>
    <published>2024-08-03T17:55:31Z</published>
    <updated>2024-08-03T19:27:03Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">August 3, 2024&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://akje.dreamwidth.org/69296.html#cutid1"&gt;The book everyone is reading right now...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=69296" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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    <title>(♯ᴖ.ლ)</title>
    <published>2024-07-26T19:43:22Z</published>
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    <content type="html">I don't think anyone is surprised by this.   (♯^.^ღ) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;big&gt;&lt;a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/gen-ai-boosts-individual-creativity-at-the-cost-of-collective-diversity-study-finds/"&gt;Gen AI boosts individual creativity at the cost of collective diversity, study finds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/big&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; The study also found that writers who scored lower on baseline creativity assessment benefited more from generative AI. These writers showed significant improvement in their stories’ novelty and usefulness when they used AI-generated ideas. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; While generative AI enhances individual creativity, the researchers also found that stories based on AI-generated ideas were more similar to each other compared to those written by the control group. This finding raises concerns about the potential homogenization of creative content if generative AI becomes widely adopted. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; And the long-term impact will be when the web becomes filled with content that have similar distributions, which will in turn be used to train the next generation of language models. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=akje&amp;ditemid=68711" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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