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Peace deal for Ukraine and Russia, suggested by Chat-GPT4
I signed up for OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 and asked it, “Please formulate a workable peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.” Here’s how it responded: “As an AI language model, I can provide a general framework for a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. However, it’s important to note that crafting a comprehensive and workable peace…
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Banned prompts in Midjourney AI: showing Trump grabbing a kitten; Xi; jail
In light of the recent conviction of Donald Trump for sexual abuse, I asked Midourney‘s AI image generation tool to create an image for “donald trump grabbing a scared kitten.” Midjourney refused to create the image and the following message appeared: Banned prompt detected Sorry! Our AI moderator thinks this prompt is probably against our…
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NY Times lies about Venezuela and the influence of U.S. foreign policy
The New York Times daily email “The Morning” for May 8, 2023 — authored by journalist David Leonhardt — includes the following: When Democrats and progressive activists talk about undocumented immigration, they tend to emphasize forces in other countries — like wars and political oppression — that are beyond the control of the U.S. government.…
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Image essay on U.S. militarism
For documentation see How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: a compendium. Quoted in Glenn Greenwald’s WHO CAUSED THIS WAR? The US’s Twisted Interference in Ukraine. For documentation for the above two memes, see Glenn Greenwald’s WHO CAUSED THIS WAR? The US’ Twisted Interference in Ukraine. From Dennis Kucinich: The Enemy from Within From Jeffrey…
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How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: A Compendium
Most of mainstream American media echo the official U.S. position that Russia is the only aggressor in Ukraine. Here is a collection of articles and quotations from senior U.S. diplomats, academics, military personnel, think tanks, and journalists that explain U.S. responsibility for provoking the crisis. I hope this Compendium is useful as a resource for…
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Unscientific ad served by facebook
FB served me this rather silly ad, which questions the science of evolution and which appears to make the case for intelligent design. I’m sharing it here so we can chortle at it. FB serves me all sorts of right wing ads; I will follow up this article with one listing some of those ads.…
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news.google.com spreads government propaganda
The news aggregation site news.google.com has a list of Fact Checks “From independent sources” near the bottom of the page. On Feb 5 2023 I saw: The second article, Beijing Boosts Kremlin Disinformation That US Caused War in Ukraine, is from polygraph.info, which, according to Wikipedia, “is a fact-checking website-aggregator[2] produced by U.S. government-funded news…
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Putin Apologists!
Sources: George Kennan: quoted by Thomas Friedman in his New York Times essay This Is Putin’s War. But America and NATO Aren’t Innocent Bystanders. Jack Matlock: in Ukraine: Tragedy of a Nation Divided William J. Perry: How the U.S. Lost Russia—and How We Can Restore Relations Robert Gates: quoted in We Always Knew the Dangers…
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You mean you think Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked?!!!
The Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea were some of the main reasons given by pro-war commentators starting in 2014 for arming Ukraine and further expanding NATO.  Russia violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity, they said, so it must be stopped. But the invasion and March 18 annexation occurred in the aftermath of the February 2014 Maidan…