The Blogger bot has produced some confusion in pond correspondents, with the notion being floated that you might have to sign in to view the pond's Sunday meditation.
You merely have to consent to view the pond's dangerous, subversive, possibly pornographic, wilfully radicalised, shamefully revolutionary analysis of lizard Oz content ...
You don't have to give age, name, serial number, rank, occupation or marital status. Only the pond knows these things, helped by the AI celebrated by John Naughton last Friday in The Observer in The machine began to waffle - and then the conductor went in for the kill.
That said, let buyers and readers tread warily ... the pond routinely warns that lizard Oz content poses a dire risk to humanity and accidental viewers.
And who knows what else the pond's warped, deeply perverted mind managed to include in the post in order to upset the Blogger bot?
Who knows, you might also stumble on some threatening visual representations of an alternative reality outside the Blogger bot's ken ...
Or...
ReplyDeleteSound familiar? History repeated...
"CBS's president canceled their show, for fear of pissing off Richard Nixon, a thin-skinned, authoritarian, dishonest vindictive Republican president."
Just replace tricky with tangerine.
Today. Thanks Cory...
"First, there's "Smothered," a documentary about the cancellation of the Smothers Brothers streaming free at the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/smothered-the-censorship-struggles-of-the-smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-2002
"The Smothers Brothers were a musical comedy act who worked savage political commentary into their act, and when they refused to pull their punches, CBS's president canceled their show, for fear of pissing off Richard Nixon, a thin-skinned, authoritarian, dishonest vindictive Republican president. What I'm getting at here, is that Colbert is in good company.
"Here's a couple of my favorite Smothers Brothers bits: first, the classic "Mom Always Liked You Best," which my Dad used to recite all the time when I was growing up, until we could all hit the line "Bark, chicken, bark" at the drop of a hat:
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"It's getting harder and harder to move through the world without surrendering your legal rights these days. I've had to walk away from doctors, dentists, taxi companies, solar installers, and car rental companies because they wanted me to click away my right to sue as a condition of doing business with them. What's the point of a system of civil justice if everyone in a position to harm you can force you to swear off using it?
"It would be different if arbitration was fair, but "he who pays the piper calls the tune" – that is, arbitrators almost always rule in favor of the corporation that's paying them, no matter how they've screwed over the other party.
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"every 10 foot wall that some stupid corporation builds around your tech should be met with an 11 foot ladder. The ability of technologists to disenshittify the tools we love is key to resisting enshittification:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/23/resto-modding/#itch-scratchers-r-us
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"Iranian brickwork, arbitrated pillows, smothered comics, and aerogel desalination"
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/manifolds/#bark-chicken-bark
Blocked?
Pretty please?
ReplyDelete"May I urge you DP, to break up the post and post the pieces seperately so as to isolate the article and or language which triggered the warning."
https://loonpond.blogspot.com/2025/07/warning-censorship-at-work.html?showComment=1753574234315&m=1#c7590607789749838577
No, sorry, no amount of pretty pleases would persuade the pond to attempt that task.
Delete(a) While offering a warning, Blogger provides not a single clue as to what triggered the warning, and so the pond would be operating completely in the dark. It would be like trying to clean up the Augean stables without a flash light. The pond might cut here, cut there, flail around in the dark, post this bit, post that bit, see if it can find the bot trigger, even appeal the warning, but you can't ever get no satisfaction arguing with a bot, and it would likely take way too many fragmented posts to see what triggered the bot;
(b) In any case, in this age of political correctness, cancel culture and the like, there's no way the pond would try to pander to the mindless bot's predilections. That way lies conformist madness of the kind the reptile hive mind preaches against, but routinely practices in a murmuration of mumblings.
There's nothing in the post that doesn't conform to pretty much every pond posting for the last decade, so it's dive in or give it a pass.
Who knows, if eventually Blogger requires actual identity papers before signing in to the pond - as a result of the Labor government's legislation and requirements - the pond might well kill off the pond in its entirety, and seek shelter elsewhere...
Dark days, caught between the politically correct far right cancel culture, and the politically correct far left cancel culture ... and if The New Yorker's recounting of South Park is what did it, then it's off to the outer rings of loonacy with Blogger and bot ...
Staid old New Yorker, home to the original DP? That bot's got to be fully sick...