Kurt Brindley's Blog, page 8
November 4, 2023
Country Roads Are Like No Others, Vol. 002
Mobilizing for war…
#waronhunger
#soldiersforstomachs
#kissafarmer
November 3, 2023
Weaponized Words
It is the ongoing global war of misinformation that, long term, I am beginning to fear most.
The damage that has been done by it just from weaponizing social media sites alone is incomprehensible to me.
And yet, for the most part, this phase of the global misinformation war is being executed by slow-moving, mistake-prone, carbon-based humans…
When AI is fully engaged in the battle…
Oh boy*…
That’s when, I reckon fearfully, the doomsday clock strikes T-minus kaboom.
The Spanish arm of RT, the global Russian television network, for example, recently reposted a statement by the Iranian president calling the explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17 an Israeli war crime, even though Western intelligence agencies and independent analysts have since said a missile misfired from Gaza was a more likely cause of the blast.
Another Russian overseas news outlet, Sputnik India, quoted a “military expert” saying, without evidence, that the United States provided the bomb that destroyed the hospital. Posts like these have garnered tens of thousands of views.
“We’re in an undeclared information war with authoritarian countries,” James P. Rubin, the head of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, said in a recent interview.
In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas, New York Times, November 03, 2023
Sticks and stones may break the bones, but the pen is mightier than the sword when it comes to effecting mass breakage…
Or something like that.
Yeah…
*non-gender specific
November 1, 2023
verse / 20231101
my eyes are open / I see it, see it coming / I can't look away
October 31, 2023
God only knows…
Suppose two men are fighting and hit a pregnant woman, causing the baby to come out. If there is no further injury, the man who caused the accident must pay money—whatever amount the woman’s husband says and the court allows. But if there is further injury, then the punishment that must be paid is life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.
Exodus 21:22-25
Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Matthew 5:38-42
smite thine eye for mine?or turneth to thee both cheeks?god knoweth aloneWe ordained for them in the Torah, “A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth—and for wounds equal retaliation.” But whoever waives it charitably, it will be atonement for them. And those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed are ˹truly˺ the wrongdoers.
Surah al-Maidah 5:45
#prayforallpeopleofthelevant
#andeverywhereelse
October 29, 2023
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#川柳
Sunday Songs to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance
Gloomy day. Wet leaves falling with the rain. Spirits as low as the barometric pressure. Need this one…
#wanthappybehappy
October 28, 2023
Hunter’s Moon
You seeing what I’m seeing?#howl
October 26, 2023
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#ar15
#automatichell
#566/2023
October 25, 2023
Cue the Rocky theme song…
The ultimate nepo baby, George Dubya Bush and Good Ol’ White Boy (mostly) Club O’ War Criminals drove me from the once honorable (if you go back to Lincoln anyway) and still somewhat sane (at least before unrecallable Reagan) Republican Party, and Trump, the antepenultimate nepo baby, of course coming just before his first two nepo offspring (and not counting Eric, who would, or the other two (as far as we know) burgeoning and relatively unknown (thank god) offsprings), and his dangerous cult drove me, not only from politics as a whole, but from any engagement online with anyone who might be maga-inclined, meaning I stopped posting entries here and I deleted all my social accounts.
And it was a good thing I did…
As it was ery healing because Trump and his calamitous cult really got into my head and owned it, pummeled it. Knocked me right out of the ring for quite a long while.
Yeah…
But not for good.
Getting strong now!And when I fired up the new and improved website (you may have noticed that I have broken free from Amazon’s sole grip on my literary career and am now selling my books, right here, directly to all you literarily likeminded, inquisitive souls – presently they all are free as I work out the kinks so get ’em while they’re hot, so to speak… hardcovers and paperbacks coming soon // end of promo) I at first thought I would stay away from politics and all the dangerous drama it brings and keep all my old political, anti-trump entries unpublished…
But, now that I’m back, and believe me, I am back, it is too hard to resist the political turmoil, as there is just too much important silly stuff going on in these less than United States of mine.
To wit, the recent election, as dysfunctionally delayed as it has been, of Mike, mega maga election denier and Trump-Bootlicker extraordinaire, Johnson from one of the most seriouly maga-infested states there is just being voted in as Tool/Speaker of the House.
Yeah…
Anyway, long story short, I’m going to republish all the old political entries beginning as far back as 2015, BCET…
Before the Catastrophic Era of Trump.
Which means, if you are a follower of this site, may peace be upon you, and may you please be patient with me…
Because you’re about to get spammed with a lot of old political, anti-trump blather of mine.
If you are a Trumper, may god help you, and I’ll understand if you unfollow, but I hope you won’t. I hope you stick around and engage with me and try to prove why I shouldn’t think that you are mentally imbalanced in a way that most hardcore cultists like trumpers are. Seriously.
Okay, let’s bring it.
Ding, ding!
#yoadrian
October 23, 2023
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#川柳
