John Stewart was on fire about the recent tarmac confabulations by our Orange God King.. 🤮

Also, #Trump just #voted by #mail in #Florida! 🙄

#WeaselWords #IllegalWar #Iran #Hormuz #TrumpLies

The use of parody to illustrate how language sidesteps the Constitution.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/psa-is-it-war/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #parody #satire #humour #comedy #gameshow #video #youtube #short #war #politics #statement #morality #trump #weaselwords

I've long had an issue with the English 'why'. Dan Dennett had similar misgivings.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/18/the-metaphysics-of-why-a-scavengers-guide-to-the-accident/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

The term in English carries a lot of metaphysical baggage – more than necessary.

#language #semantics #metaphysics #philosophy #perception #weaselwords #intent #causation #truth #meaning #notebooklm #claude #chatgpt #genai

So, three (3) months ago, I got an unexpected letter from my credit card company. They notified me that my account "may" [1] have been compromised, and that "out of an abundance of caution", they were preemptively cancelling my credit card, and issued me a new one (with a different account/card number).

I'd had that card for 20 years. Changing the info held on file at all kinds of online stores and other financial services and various other things took a fair bit of time, spread over a couple of months as I ran into places I'd set up with the old one. But more critically, remembering the *new* number, and getting it into muscle memory, also took quite a while - I had to keep double-checking every time I needed the number, up until about 2 weeks ago, when I started feeling confident I had memorized it correctly.

So today, I get essentially the same letter, and *another* new card/number... 😢 [2]

So I get to do the whole dance again! Here's an idea, but maybe make your systems more secure?

[1] weasel words
[2] in case you're curious, the new one starts with a digit

#CreditCard #fraud #AbundanceOfCaution #WeaselWords #weasel #may #compromised #security #clueless #YourPrivacyIsImportantToUs #privacy #financial

I don’t know why I am surprised that even an #ancient #rabbi could argue semantics over how far you have to go before you are truly liable for offering your offspring to #Molech. The line was crossed quite a long ways back, actually. Long before you uttered any #weaselwords.

Not unrelatedly, out-of-court #settlements with no admission of #wrongdoing are utter #CorporateBullshit and our modern #Sanhedrin should dish out some real #punishment that actually fucking hurts for a change.