In The Chamber by John #Grisham from 1994 he describes how today's internet troll armies are operating.
In order to sway the Governor toward pardoning a man on the death row, a lawyer employs 20 students who call the Governor's hotline 24/7, each time under a different name, saying they want a pardon.
A few quirks typical of the 1990 telecom tech make this possible.

Today's internet trolls also control a hundred identities each and accomplish the same.

And one instance recently made the news where a so-called "AI", probably an LLM, was used for targeting parlamentarians via email.

A propos of nothing much. 😁 Just surprised how old this dispicable practice really is.

On the wider scale, The Chamber serves as collection of societal history or whatyamaycallit when history doesn't end with the dates and names of kings and their generals.
I had no inkling what KKK really meant in the South, or how such cultist might have seen themselves.
Did you know there were real terrorist cells like the Irish IRA or German RAF? Bombings and such? I didn't. Now I do.
I like it when my under-educated mind gets fed these historical tidbits on the side, in an entertaining novel.

#dwr #freetube #fedibikes #MdRddG #NI #obob #fahrrad #frostpendeln

#TousledCraneonTour

Das #Viadukt …

… ist nicht der neue Roman von #Grisham, sondern ein gerne angefahrenes #Radtourziel in der Warburger Umgebung, auch wird es, unter #Diasporanern hin und an als #BüP - #Backwarenübergabeplatz genutzt (-:
Heute mal wieder bei #Null auf’s #Rad, und der #Nebel wartet schon auf mich, daher schnell noch einen #Kaffee und was auf die #Ohren:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APbaO8_b4Sw&list=RDAPbaO8_b4Sw&start_radio=1

Bleibt senkrecht und gesund!

@yodaladywhooo yes, I think you are more than 3 short.
We have parliamentary supremacy, which lacks the degree of tension the French etc baked into your tripartite constitution. You'd possibly be worse off.
The fault was a failure in the selection mechanism or its operation.

I recall a John Grisham thriller which included a strategic rebalancing of the Supreme Court. Can't recall it's name.

#constitution #Grisham #court #count

Definitely more #Huckabee-like than #Spicer-like, but not the #Grisham-Way, the new #PressLady. #Mandatory for the #Job "under" #Trump: #Lying without #blushing red in the Face.

Leavitt: Trump 'Advocate' For 'Free, Fair Press': VIDEO - Comic Sands
https://www.comicsands.com/leavitt-trump-free-press

Corriere.it - Homepage by di Marco Bruna
Roberson e la condanna a morte in Texas, per John Grisham «il crimine non è mai avvenuto»: la storia (e cosa può succedere ora)

«Roberson ha trascorso gli ultimi 22 anni nel braccio della morte per un crimine che probabilmente non ha mai commesso, e ora il Texas ha deciso di giustiziarlo», ha scritto Grisham sul Washington Post

Translated:
Roberson is sentenced to death in Texas. For John Grisham, "the crime never happened": the story (and what can happen now)

"Roberson has spent the last 22 years on death row for a crime he likely never committed, and now Texas has decided to execute him," Grisham wrote in The Washington Post.

#Roberson #US #Grisham #JohnGrisham #Texas #WashingtonPost
https://www.corriere.it/esteri/24_ottobre_16/robert-roberson-condanna-morte-grisham-283b6f29-a913-4fe0-92bc-022621965xlk.shtml

Con oltre 30 anni di carriera e più di 200 milioni di copie vendute, #Grisham scrive il #sequel del suo celebre “Il socio”, purtroppo con minor successo.
Qual è la morale di questa storia? Leggi il #libro e poi dimmi nei commenti le tue riflessioni.

https://www.chiscrive.eu/lo-scambio/

Die Republikanerin Stephanie Grisham sprach nur 2 Minuten auf dem Parteitag der US-Demokraten in Chicago. 🇺🇸 Doch diese beiden Minuten haben es in sich. #Grisham gehörte zu den engsten Mitarbeiterinnen von Donald & Melania Trump, trat aber zurück, nachdem diese die Gewalt gegen den Wahlerfolg von Joe Biden befeuerten, nicht stoppten. Jetzt unterstützt auch Grisham #KamalaHarris. Hörenswert!

#StephanieGrisham #dnc2024chicago #Republicans #Democrats #USA

https://youtu.be/iCjnETy3p2A