The Honest Courtesan

The chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions.  –  Air Canada

Like Amy Winfrey, I think it’s important we all do our part to poison the artificial stupidity systems currently creeping through every corner of the internet, because it seems to be the only way to stop penny-pinching bastards from attempting to replace humans with them.  The links above the video were provided by Desiree Alliance, Mark Bennett, Jesse Walker, Emma Camp, Mike Siegel, Phoenix Calida, and Radley Balko, in that order.

• Nightmare of the week.
• I hate it when this happens.
• This week in artificial stupidity.
• Not a police state yet, no sirree!
• Who could ever have predicted this?
• Cops are a special kind of sociopath.
• “Smart” devices aren’t, part umpty-eleven.

From the Archives

• They said nothing while the Times spread propaganda against sexworkers.
• The trades of actress & whore were, until a century ago, indistinguishable.
• Imagine how many others like this are still out there, raping & murdering.
• Prior to 2018, it wasn’t even safe for a politician to support human rights.
• Some still believe these sociopaths are motivated by “protecting children”.
• Mom demands politicians stop unsupervised kids from gorging on candy.
• Even if Clearview is brought down, the djinni is already out of the bottle.
• The worst rape defense after “she wanted to be raped by a random cop”.
• Australian politicians want to demolish the internet as much as US ones.
• Accept no source as absolute authority, especially when they demand it.
• “At least one person noted that the UK was at risk of looking like idiots”.
• The only thing cops seem to love as much as raping kids is kiddie porn.
• Oh, oh, my goodness me, who could ever have predicted this outcome?
• Court declares that cops are too stupid and evil to understand morality.
• When it comes to surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
• Are the Japanese the only people left who can tell fantasy from reality?
• Another pogrom from the dangerous clown who rules Polk County, FL.
• Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
• Crypto-moralists add nationalism to “health” in their war on pleasure.
• This monster’s handlers made a conscious choice to let him run wild.
• Previous HIV cures were accomplished by bone marrow transplant.
• “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture and deport them“.
• One day, “professional ‘survivor’” will no longer be a lucrative job.
• Anti-trans hysteria has shifted from toilets to high-school sports.
• It’s been too long since I thanked all of you for your support.
• When government is in charge, things can always get worse.
• Retrospectives of my blogging for February 2011 and 2012.
• Conditioning kids to accept constant, intrusive surveillance.
• California’s annual anti-whore pogrom is worse than ever.
• The “things on cars” branch of “sex trafficking” scarelore.
• Still think this djinni can be crammed back into its bottle?
• Surely you didn’t think this was just about porn, did you?
• Cops, government, books, sleep farting, and much more.
• Texas has a long history of “correcting” people to death.
• I won’t be surprised if his sentence is shorter than this.
• What it’s like to be arrested in a “sex trafficking” sting.
• Cops, artificial stupidity, Gerald Fried, and much more.
• Cops, David Bowie, P. J. O’Rourke, and much more.
• Taking advantage of freakishly springlike weather.
• Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
• A pandemic can’t stop dedicated opportunists.
• Rapist cops of the week, some murderers too.
• Some pretty mild early-spring type weather.
• Until SCOTUS acts, this will only get worse.
• What is wrong with doctors who do this?
• My two previous posts for Mardi Gras.
• How Annie became part of the family.
• More curated selections of tweets.
• A mural decorating my atrium.
• “The least bad option”.

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