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My latest Fifth Column Blog post

From my Portugal Bike Tour

Black and White Photo Versions of an Industrial Site

https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2025/08/black-and-white-photo-versions-of.html

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https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-message-to-mark-carney-shut-down

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AI - at least it's good for something

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/no-safety-rules-concerns-grow-as-ai-generated-videos-spread-hate-online/article_d76b0cc4-7ea1-50f0-b7da-ea505ca79eb3.html

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Got a flyer in the post today that essentially said we want to buy your house cheap and flip it for a profit and we will make it real easy for you.

Appealing to the convenience is more important than anything else crowd I guess.

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Proof that something can be a really dumb idea and highly successful. White Bread.

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Saw a #CyberFuckUp in the wild today. Master Elon has designed a vehicle to fit a niche market that doesn't exist. #Cybertruck is neither utilitarian, or sporty, or a family car. It's only appeal is to #Elon #fanboys and #Nazis perhaps.

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Who knew ther founding fathers designed the American system of government to allow the president to be a dictator. #TrueUntilProvenOtherwise

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Why is "stunning" used in a positive way to describe things. Usually when people are stunned it's not for a positive reason.

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When I think about what passes for AI these days, chatbots and LLMs, and the crypto currency industry and it's fictional "mining" one can only bemoan how so many supposedly intelligent people can be so uninformed and stupid.

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#Boomers have a special relationship with #technology. We saw the birth and development of #TV, personal #computers and #smartphones. Having lived with and without all of these we can judge what is really useful and necessary and what we have been #marketed to believe we can’t live without, like #Facebook or #apps for everything.