Caveat: Poem #3168 “Eighty-fifth stanza”

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Kiamon sighed. Things becoming quite dire.
People were angry, the world was on fire.
Still, she at least had the comfort of ghosts.
Calm and assured, with their confident boasts.

– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter. Part of a never-ending series of randomized snippets from the life of a fictional being in a fictional world (which is to say, my novel-in-progress that refuses to actually ever progress).


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Caveat: Links #134

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“When you go far enough left, you get your guns back.” – Internet Person

A thought.

Closed-border autarky is just right-wing-coded degrowtherism.


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Caveat: Links #132

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“Everyone is systematically exploitable. You can pay costs to mitigate this, but not to entirely solve it. That’s impossible, and not even obviously desirable. The correct rate of being scammed is not zero.” – Zvi Mowshowitz


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Caveat: Links #131

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.” – Timothy Snyder


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Caveat: Links #129

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A quote.

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. I personally prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking in liberalism.” – Hayek


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Caveat: Links #128

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet.

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A thought – my own thought.

“In my darkest moments, I feel that I am becoming an accelerationist. I think: go ahead, burn Social Security to the ground! Take the VA and Medicare down too, while you’re at it! Let’s see if we can get into a hot war with Canada or Europe; let’s raze the entire country…”


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Caveat: Poem #3151 “Eighty-fourth stanza”

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Kiamon boarded the tram in the morning;
No one had offered her much of a warning.
Mist over snow, all half melted and gray,
Slowly she started unfolding her day.

– a quatrain in dactylic tetrameter. Part of a never-ending series of randomized snippets from the life of a fictional being in a fictional world (which is to say, my novel-in-progress that refuses to actually ever progress).


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Caveat: Links #127

Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.

An illustration from the internet (a few months late, sorry).

혹시 파트너 소개팅방 관심있으세요? / 내란수괴 윤석열은 퇴진하라 / 퇴진하라 ... Are you interested in

(Transcription and translation: 혹시 파트너 소개팅방 관심있으세요? / 내란수괴 윤석열은 퇴진하라 / 퇴진하라 … Are you interested in “partner blind date rooms” [sex chat]? / The coup-leader, [President] Yoon Seok-yeol, must resign / resign)

A quote.

“Ignorance is rarely an accident. It operates with precision, lurking in classrooms where history is selectively taught, in courtrooms where justice bends under the weight of wilfull blindness, and in cabinets of power where silence is often the most strategic policy. It is not simply the absence of knowledge but the calculated absence of knowledge, forged to serve particular ends.” – Colin W P Lewis


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