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  This is the inscription above the entrance hall of the Chicago Tribune Don't Give Me The Freedom Of The Press I will give the Minister a venal house of peers. He will get a corrupt and service House of Commons. He Will Get The Full Blow Of My Patronage Of Office He Will Have All The Power A Place Could Confer On Him Buy Up Submission and Overawe Resistence: But, with the Freedom of Press, I Will Meet Him Unfazed. The Mighty Fabric Of That Mightier Machine Will be attacked. Corruption will be shook off its height Bury it Under the Ruins of What It was meant to protect. -Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan captured the ethos of an entire industry in his words. The inscription looks more like an ode to the deceased today. The corporate media is mutated. It summons bizarre psychic entities instead of tracking the truth. Media Egregores Egregore is a concept that comes from the occult. It's derived from egregoroi in Greek, meaning "watchers". But the term...

  Artificial Intelligence is still a hot topic. After a decade of hype, the launch of ChatGPT has finally given it some credence. ASS (or Artificially Stimulated stupidity, pronounced "A Ess" of course) is what people should focus on. ASS may have more of an impact on AI than its inherent qualities if it overtakes the human race, as many fear. ASS, while stupidity may be as old as humanity itself and as pervasive, is a relatively new phenomenon. Since the dawn of humanity, humans have tried to combat their innate stupidity through training and education. They also used relatively reliable ways of creating and distributing new information. All have recently broken down, and are still unreformed despite being easily fixable. These breakdowns encourage human stupidity artificially by making rational discussion and analysis more difficult. Government education At this point, almost all formal education in the US, K-PhD, is government-controlled, even when technically privately pr...

  Covid late-onset is the exact experience that you'd expect. Covid is a miserable experience. It causes a hacking cough and a headache. You feel short of breath. Your limbs are numb. And you're tired. It didn't appear to be fatal, at least not for me or my wife. Louisa was given the go-ahead this morning, and I hope to be able to do the same tomorrow. This means that we might just make it out to the pub Sunday. Paris is to blame, I'm sure. Louisa was in Montparnasse for an art event and she must have caught the illness either on her way home or from the crowd of art lovers. She was sick within two days after her return and thoughtfully shared the illness with me in order to avoid missing market day. We were lucky to have done our shopping the day after she returned. We found a dense loaf of bread that lasted for several days. Our neighbour Mael also left us goat's-milk and eggs on the terrace steps. What about France's near collapse into chaos and the abyss, th...

  Bender's description of dorky Brian as a neo-maxi zoom-dweebie and "parent's dream" in The Breakfast Club makes us laugh. Bender and viewers know, however, that Brian will never become a rebel. He just doesn't have it. Patrick Harvey and Lorna Slater, the Greens co-leaders, are also the worst losers of Scottish politics. The zoom-dweebies are announcing their futile revolt by refusing to attend the Royal Ceremony of Thanksgiving for King. Tomorrow morning, King Charles will be crowned in Edinburgh. He has been a staunch advocate of the environment. Harvey will instead wax lyrical like Tom Paine, at an anti-monarchy rally organized by Our Republic. The committee page and the founders' page are replete on their website with them/thems. It's a great way to stick it to the boss! Even Republicanism sounds lame when it is compared to progressivism. Patrick Harvey's dulcet voice makes the great humanist aspiration to free ourselves from superstition, injust...

  Great Scott! The Federal Aviation Administration has approved a flying car built by American technology company Alef Aeronautics. In 2025, the actual model will be available for $300,000. Alef Aeronautics has already started taking pre-orders for its website. You can get in the line by paying $150. AA says it's been developing a prototype for a while and that Musk's SpaceX has provided funding, among other sources. XPeng Aeroht, a Chinese competitor with a budget of around 200 million dollars can outspend the Americans News . Jim Dukhovny of AA, CO, says that the Model A is a vehicle with four wheels. It has a range on the road of 200 miles. However, it can only be driven at slow speeds of up to 25-30mph. You can only fly if you wish to travel faster. The car must be tilted on its side if you wish to go in any other direction than straight up. This is because the rotor blades are located there. Do not worry! There is a mechanism in the cabin that keeps passengers always uprig...

  Chris Pincher was given an 8-week suspension by the House of Commons after he inappropriately groped two men in the Carlton Club, in London, last year. He had said that he was going to step down after the next elections, but he may be gone sooner. The eight-week suspension is far more than the 10-day threshold required to trigger a recall and possibly a by-election. Before the official launch of a recall petition, the Commons has to vote on its punishment. By-elections will be held if 10 percent of the constituents sign up for the petition. The standards committee said that his behavior was "completely inappropriate" and "abuses of power". Pincher said that he had been "heavily drunk" at the time he sexually assaulted a House of Lords employee and a civil service worker. In the year-long investigation that led to this report, it was found out that the former deputy whip had touched a colleague's arm and neck first before touching his bottom. Pincher ...