Shouting into the voidAre you an Anarchist yet?
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89GwX4x/
Wm.son#Quotes #Community #Distrust #Religion #Creeds #Freedom #Dissent #LearnedHand
All. Of.This.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. -Learned Hand, jurist (27 Jan 1872-1961)
mokomokai>#KamalaHarris Destroys Trump In 1st Speech Of 2026...<
>Sick And Tired<
"A long broken system has fueled #cynicism and yes #apathy and people are rightly #angry and profoundly frustrated.
Far too many have resigned themselves that well I guess it's just going to be this way.
All while those in power attempt to #divide the American people, attempt to make us #distrust each other, to turn on each other..."
Kamala Harris Destroys Trump In 1st Speech Of 2026, Slams Govt Over ICE Chaos, Minnesota Shooting
Wisdom in SpaceThe people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
-- Frank Herbert
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankHerbert #Distrust
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
WordofTheHour#distrust : to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality
- French: méfiance
- German: das Misstrauen
- Italian: sfiducia
- Portuguese: desconfiança
- Spanish: desconfianza
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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
-- Frank Herbert
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0#MayorLurie - Do you realize you're building #distrust when you support this sort of decision making? This is not good governance.
It may be that the selection criteria staff came up with were incorrect. In that case, revising the decision criteria, clearly identifying what needed to be revised, and why, makes sense. Overruling the criteria that were approved for use? Nope. Or did your senior staff person fail to review the criteria to begin with? Equally Nope
Overruling a recommendation based on the official selection criteria just because one person (or was it 2?) disagrees with the result is #BadGovernance and #BreaksTrust with the people.
C.Regarding #Github, #Microsoft, and "AI"...
There was a lot of unease when Microsoft, famous for hating open-source / free software for so long, bought Github. The worry was Microsoft would return to their anti-competitive ways and use Github as a cudgel against its perceived ~~enemies~~ competitors. But no, they declared, Github would forever remain independent of Microsoft, running for the benefit of the world. There was no reason to #distrust them.
Then, of course, recently they memory-holed those promises, and said Github would no longer be #independent. Instead, it would operate as part of Microsoft - specifically as part of their #AI unit.
Why AI? Well, to use Github's mountain of code and user data to train their #LLM, of course. The LLMs that are #copyright violations at mass scale, and that despite any PR claims really are intended to allow customers to replace expensive, #knowledgeable #software #engineers with their #plagiarism machine.
In response, many have closed or stated their intention to close their Github accounts.
To that, I say: don't. Closing it sends a brief message, and nothing else.
Instead, keep your #account and #repositories. Create new ones. Not for your real use - check in your buggy, non-working #code. Check in #broken code generated by their (or other) LLM. Pollute the #training #data. Merge idiotic unrelated PRs. Check in stuff that doesn't build, doesn't run.
Throw those #sabots in the machine. Make it serve a purpose.
#distrust : to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality
- French: méfiance
- German: das Misstrauen
- Italian: sfiducia
- Portuguese: desconfiança
- Spanish: desconfianza
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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past
Paul Houle😕 Why late surges in election results fuel fraud suspicions among voters
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-late-surges-election-results-fuel.html
#elections #psychology #politics #politicalscience #socialscience #trust #distrust #legitimacy #media
Why late surges in election results fuel fraud suspicions among voters
Once an electoral candidate is in the lead, the public views them as the winner. If the candidate then loses, fraud seems a likely explanation, and even the winner's supporters might be inclined to be suspicious about the final result. This is because of the cumulative redundancy bias (CRB).