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Had there been a time in the history of the United States when political assassinations - assassinations of public officials - were running at the rate of more than one and a half thousand per annum, as was the case in Russia in 1906, I rather shudder to think what would have been the reaction of the official establishment here. – George F Kennan, The breakdown of the Tsarist Autocracy. When seeing incredible numbers such as those, it's worth asking why? How does a society breakdown to the…
I've been trying to make progress on a herculean task; I want decent looking programs for personal use which I can generate quickly using AI agents yet I'm a person without taste controlling an AI without taste. I found "one weird trick" that does enough for me, the results are not extra nice but it doesn't make me gag and I'll take what I can. Style of Slop I took a simple single web page app (more context below) and kept on asking the agent1 to generate it in different styles. I found that…
The Wikipedia page on James Vicary (The "inventor" of Subliminal advertising) mentions that the CIA investigated subliminal advertising and found it to be somewhat useful. After reading the source I found that the report is more skeptical than presented but it did tickle something in my brain; the CIA was (is?) interested in so much bunk! I've compiled an incomplete list of some pseudo-science the CIA was involved in. Lest you think they were just doing their duty and investigating all possible…
