Posts Tagged ‘yellow journalism’
Fearless Throwback Thursday
Posted in Miscellaneous, Music, tagged advertising, artificial stupidity, blogging, Bluesky, ethics, internet, language, politicians, psychology, Twitter, yellow journalism on August 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »
In the News (#1663)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, advertising, artificial stupidity, Australia, California, cops, Creepy Coppers, disease, domestic violence, drugs, Enshittification, Facebook, fascism, illegal aliens, Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, porn, prisons, propaganda, Shame Shame, surveillance, Texas, The Cop Myth, The Prudish Giant, The Vultures Descend, Torture Chamber, Welcome to the Future, yellow journalism on August 15, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Body-worn cameras are…used…to present the police to the public in the most favorable way possible. – Christopher Schneider
I’ve been skeptical of the notion of body cameras as a police “reform” for well over a decade:
…ICE [goons] will be equipped with much-delayed body cameras by the end of next month…but…the [boss goon will] restrict the public release of footage unless “it is in the best interests of the agency”…[It should be obvious that] none of the [footage] in…[cases where goons murder a citizen will be released]…taxpayers who put up more than $30m for the cameras [will] still be kept in the dark about [murders and other atrocities while]…releas[ing] recordings that reflect well on the agency’s image…
A woman who sleeps with a cop endangers her entire family:
A Texas [cop named Chad Eberle was] arrested in Mexico [for murder]ing three people and critically injuring the mother of his child…[when the victims tried to stop him from abducting] his three-year-old son. Two women and one man were killed…and…the child’s…mother was…shot in the head and remain[s] in critical condition…Eberle was [caught] while attempting to cross from Mexico into Texas…The three-year-old was unharmed…
Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past:
USA Today Co. has made a de[vil’s bargain] with [fascist surveillance] company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior...CEO Mike Reed [barfed buzzwords like “]activate audience data[“]…and… “actionable intelligence” [at investors to dazzle them with bullshit]…USA Today Co. owns more than 200 local newspapers…along with its national daily USA Today. The [surveillance collusion] with Palantir comes as search traffic continues to fall [due to corporations like Palantir selling chatbots to the very stupid]…Axel Springer — which owns Business Insider, Politico, Bild, and The Telegraph — and Fox News [are] also [collaborating] with Palantir…to…[spy on their readers, and] Thomson Reuters…supplies [them] data…
Facebook is the most antisocial corporation other than those who run prisons:
Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg…has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit [computer]-generated child [porn] and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements…some [of the] ads linked out to so-called nudify or undressing apps…the ads [have] run…across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and…Threads…[and represent] the second time in recent weeks that paid [child porn] ads…have been found on [Zuckerberg]’s platforms…this isn’t content posted by third parties…[but rather] ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run…[until they were caught, but] have now been removed [according to standard Facebook] policies on [getting caught red-handed by journalists]…
Lest you think Zuckerberg is merely looking the other way rather than intentionally spreading poison:
A[n Australian] white nationalist…neo-Nazi…is being paid by Facebook…to produce content…Hugo Lennon…has been receiving revenue through Facebook’s “Content Monetization” program since September 2025…[by making propaganda] videos…referencing white supremacist concepts like replacement theory and remigration. The Noticer, a[n]…Australian…website that regularly promotes white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideologies, has been making money through the same Facebook revenue program since November 2025…[even though it] is currently suspended from [Twitter]…because it [is so violently]…hateful…Monica Smit, the founder of the anti-vaccine…group Reignite Democracy Australia, joined Facebook’s content monetisation program in September 2025…[but has] been earning advertising revenue through Facebook from as far back as 2017…[by selling] “radiation protection” bracelets…
The inevitable result of sexual predators being given power over women:
An…Oregon woman has filed a $300,000 lawsuit [because] two [cops] used a body-worn camera to surreptitiously record her as she urinated…[after they demanded] she…provide a urine sample in response to fabricated [DUI and drug possession]
charges…six weeks later, the…District Attorney’s Office dropped the charges without explanation, [making the victim, Tami] Nuxall[, suspicious]…the city of Enterprise and its entire three-member police force…Shannon Stillman…Jacob Curtis and…Kevin McQuead…have…a [long history of harassing]…Nuxall, [who]…lives less than half a mile from the police station…[it started in] 2023, when she was ticketed
for failing to carry proof of insurance…and…Curtis…pulled a gun on her and her children…[boss hog McQuead’s idiotic defense was that] Curtis was…[only threatening her life “]for a short time[“. Naturally]…she told city council members that police were “out of control” and…in the [next] 15 months…she was stopped and ticketed…more than any other time in her life…six times in [all, and] half of those cases were dismissed…
Your “leaders” call this “correction”:
Inside LA County’s only jail for women, brown or foul-smelling liquid flows from the taps where the women [are supposed to] get their drinking water. They shower under rusty pipes and on floors covered in mold. Gnats, worms, and maggots regularly crawl out of sink drains and…[broken] toilets…run day and night…The Sybil Brand Commission of Institutional Inspections…called the situation “an ongoing and unresolved public health crisis”…[more than] half of the [victims of this atrocity]…are [legally innocent]…
This was always the endgame, regardless of claims to the contrary:
A teenage girl has been arrested in North Carolina for “assault with a deadly weapon” after allegedly taking abortion pills 31 weeks into her pregnancy, which prompted her to go into labor. The teen’s boyfriend has also been arrested, and charged with negligent child abuse…the “deadly weapon” appears to refer to…abortion pills…[which cops claim] signaled her “intent to kill”…Instead of being allowed to rest and receive medical care just days after going into labor, the 18-year old was arrested and jailed…then forced to show up for a court hearing…There is no crime here. Yet, by attacking [a frightened girl] with this mishmash of charges, cops are trying to make self-managed abortion a crime…
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Links #825
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged cops, domestic violence, False Witness, games, I’m Sure You Feel Safer Now, illegal aliens, language, Louisiana, prisons, psychology, STEM, Texas, Under Duress, video, yellow journalism on April 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The myth that memory is a video recording playing in a private theater in your brain is one of the biggest lies about hypnosis. – Penn & Teller
It was very difficult to pick a song with which to send off Moya Brennan, so I finally decided on a live video of one of their early, more traditional songs rather than their more pop-influenced work of the ’80s and ’90s. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko (x2), and Popehat, in that order.
- R.I.P. Moya Brennan.
- Talk about lost continents…
- “Alarming”. Words mean things.
- Penn & Teller file a SCOTUS brief.
- I’m sure you feel MUCH safer now.
- “Ghoulish” doesn’t even begin to describe this.
From the Archives
- Using sleazy means to violate people’s civil rights with the typical excuses.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When a cop tries to pass murder as suicide, it’s usually his wife/girlfriend.
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- The current “monkey see, monkey do” parade escapes the US to Europe.
- Politicians no longer care about making their new diktats Constitutional.
- Surely you didn’t think they’d stop at threatening librarians & teachers.
- “Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets off on destroying lives.
- The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come.
- This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who do it.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
- Cops, Pope Francis, Brad Holland, Wink Martindale, and much more.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
- Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms.
- How a country treats its prisoners reveals a great deal about it.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Economic war, propaganda war, and “cyber” war are still war.
- This clown wants to criminalize amateur promiscuity as well.
- Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Texas censors have descended completely into self-parody.
- The government calls this “correction”; you don’t have to.
- The open internet is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
- Cops, black humor, chemistry, Bob Heil, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Authoritarians want to have their cake and eat it, too.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
- Medical privacy will soon be a thing of the past.
- The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Wacky warmish weather at Sunset.
- Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday.
- Batman vs. Throwback Thursday.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- The goose that didn’t live long.
- Many rapist cops of the week.
- A week in the playpen.
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Tweet Germ
Posted in History, Miscellaneous, Music, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, Words, tagged advertising, Aladdin’s Satellite, animals, artificial stupidity, Barbie, blogging, Bluesky, censorship, cops, cosmetic surgery, dirty, Facebook, games, hysteria, imaginative fiction, Iran, language, New York, Not To Be Taken Internally, politicians, prisons, propaganda, psychology, racism, Twitter, video, yellow journalism on March 23, 2026| Leave a Comment »
So many people still feel the need to wait for some business entity to temporarily carry a show they want to see, typically polluted with commercials, when home video has existed in one form or another for over 40 years and most shows can be permanently purchased for the price of a decent meal.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-15T18:02:27.299Z
Trump really does believe what he sees in movies.Here we see him attempting the Jedi mind trick.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T03:04:37.228Z
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" – Upton Sinclair
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-17T19:00:27.452Z
People who do not eat chips could be ‘left behind’, says Frito-Lay’s CEO
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-18T19:55:52.543Z
Funniest thing I've seen this week.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-20T08:52:14.194Z
It's garbage. It's shit. It's noise. It's paint hurled at a canvas. It's an overflowing toilet. It's hated by anyone who knows anything about art. It enriches fascists. It ignores consent and good taste. It's stupid. It's bad. It's a disease. It's random. It reeks. It's unwelcome. It's everywhere.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T18:50:08.193Z
Over a decade ago, I was warning young women not to let random people who aren't doctors inject filth into their butts.Now I'm warning young men not to hit themselves in the face with hammers.Really, y'all, plastic surgery is not something you can learn by watching YouTube videos.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T18:24:12.301Z
In traditional scholarship, caring about what other educated people thought about one's ideas was called "peer review", and it was considered intrinsic to the process.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T18:39:40.974Z
Concentration camps. Go on, you can type the words if you try. I believe in you. Just keep repeating the mantra, "I have a backbone, I have a backbone, I have a backbone", and you should be able to either type the words or just copy paste from here: "concentration camps".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-25T17:54:59.340Z
Stolen. The word you're looking for is "stolen", not "taken away"; that is a term reserved for parents disciplining their own children, ie "she took away his bb gun until he stopped shooting cats". The term for strangers permanently taking others' possessions is "stealing". They STOLE the crayons.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-26T17:56:06.044Z
Do history classes in New York teach students about William the Acquirer and the Acquisitions of Genghis Khan?
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-27T18:20:18.610Z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGK…
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-28T17:52:47.390Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-02-28T19:35:46.602Z
Those of you who weren't adults at the time of the Gulf War may not remember that it, more than any other event, created the 24-hour news cycle which has bedeviled the US ever since. It turned CNN from a low-rating sideline into a high-rating main event, and gave us the nauseating term "scud stud".
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T17:39:49.401Z
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-03T18:01:27.024Z
Honestly, I don't know how you young gals put up with this. In my day (points with cane) all we had to worry about beside cops and bad clients was the puritanical old woman whom the publisher of the Yellow Pages (Barry Co IIRC) allowed to ban certain words in escort service ads.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-04T08:21:33.548Z
Trump replaces Barbie with Mr. Potato Head.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-05T20:02:33.887Z
Challenge for those who aren't religious fanatics: explain to those who *are* that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that the burden of proof is NOT on those demanding such evidence.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-07T17:31:04.244Z
This is called a "win-win" scenario.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-08T17:44:05.190Z
If they simply phrased the headline truthfully as "women are falling in love with a fantasy of romance", people would recognize that this is nothing new.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-09T17:41:07.413Z
How quaint. Those of us who still play real old-fashioned D&D are going to start looking like people who bake all of their own bread instead of buying Wonder Bread.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-10T17:00:58.084Z
There's illiteracy, and then there's *functional* illiteracy, and then there's…whatever this is.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-11T03:40:34.394Z
People who are terminally online habitually type out bizarre, unpronounceable sequences of letters and symbols which attest to how little of their lives are spent actually speaking to normal people in real life.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-11T19:07:51.122Z
Future history students will refuse to believe it when their professors tell them that one of the factors that precipitated the 21st-century dark age was gambling fanatics intentionally falsifying records for profit. Having taught history, I can hear the adolescent voices already: "That's stupid!"
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-13T17:28:41.148Z
On Bluesky this morning, I'm seeing the usual mixture of political & aesthetic posts.On Twitter, I'm being attacked by incensed Millennials apparently unable to comprehend why a 60-year-old woman who neither has kids nor watches TV doesn't know about a gimmick kid food first sold in the late '90s.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-14T18:22:27.167Z
"Police shoot black man in the back."There, FIFY.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-15T17:24:47.878Z
Boo hoo hoo, his diaper is wet and nobody wants to play with him.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T02:40:56.057Z
I think @ryanlcooper.com called it correctly: Trump will go down as one of the Great Idiots of History.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-17T17:24:50.126Z
Deep respect for Tony Moore.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-18T17:14:20.090Z
So THIS is where Big Balls went.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-19T17:41:07.379Z
Après moi, le déluge.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T18:08:32.460Z
People idolize flawed human beings, creating statues of them as though they were pharaohs & literally putting them up on pedestals, only to tear them down again as soon as the flawed human is found to have been flawed.We could save so much time and energy by simply not setting up humans as gods.
— Maggie McNeill (@maggiemcneill.bsky.social) 2026-03-21T07:47:25.342Z
Zombie Throwback Thursday
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Tyranny, tagged blogging, consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, ethics, Grace, language, Leaving the 20th Century, libraries, Prohibition (alcohol), propaganda, psychology, yellow journalism on March 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The first prohibitionist laws date to the late 19th century, but it was in the 20th that the concept…penetrated the minds of the general public so thoroughly that most took it for granted that for governments to tell people what they could consume, what they could own, and even what thoughts they could have…was not only normal, but desirable. – “Leaving the 20th Century”
If you find an article interesting, infuriating, or whatever, you can follow the thread of references back through similar articles, often for years, while marveling at the obsessive lengths and depths to which my librarian’s brain will go to impose order on chaos. – “Rabbit Hole”
Copsucking reporters waste considerable space quoting boss pigs oinking about how typical and representative cops aren’t really typical or representative. – “Creepy Coppers (#1418)”
I have never broken a promise to [Grace] in the past and I’m not going to start now merely because she’s not in a position to remind me. – “Diary 766“
Violent Abstractions
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged cops, language, Passive Voice, politicians, propaganda, yellow journalism on February 6, 2026| Leave a Comment »
I’ve noticed a growing tendency for politicians, bureaucrats, and complicit “journalists” to say “law enforcement” (not “law enforcement personnel” or whatever) instead of “cops”, “a cop”, “a gang of cops”, “a gang of goons”, etc. “Law enforcement” is a concept, not a person or persons. After the recent murder of Alex Pretti by ICE goons, Trumpist henchwoman Noem claimed he had “attacked law enforcement”; I was very impressed with this man’s magical power to attack abstractions, and wondered if he also had the ability to attack, say, “representative democracy”, “higher education”, or “Elizabethan drama”. In the real world, as opposed to the one inhabited by apologists for state violence where people randomly drop dead near cops and cops’ guns regularly fire on their own, “law enforcement” can only be “attacked” by politicians (at least in theory; it never happens in actuality).
You may wonder why this matters to anyone who isn’t a pathological pedant, but when the phrase “law enforcement” is used to mean individual humans, any resistance to the human behavior of those humans is equated to resistance to the concept of law, i.e. anarchism (which authoritarians use to mean “criminality”), and defending oneself against violence perpetrated by employees of the state is painted as an attack on all of society; it’s nothing but another version of “l’état, c’est moi”, but extended to every brain-damaged goon instead of being reserved for the head of state. That’s why Trumpists love it; you should not ape them. And it’s especially hypocritical coming from people who are fully capable of understanding why equating individual humans with concepts is bad when it’s politicians equating themselves with the concept of “democracy” or health bureaucrats equating themselves with the concept of “science”.
In the News (#1604)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged abortion, advertising, artificial stupidity, censorship, cops, Crippling Thought, fascism, I Spy, Kentucky, libraries, Mad Libs, Micromanagement, porn, Pyrrhic Victory, scams, Shame Shame, surveillance, teachers, Texas, The Vultures Descend, Thought Control, Twitter, Utah, yellow journalism on January 14, 2026| Leave a Comment »
It’s Soviet-style education. – Martin Peterson
The ghost of Kurt Vonnegut vs. Utah censors:
On behalf of the Kurt Vonnegut Estate, authors Elana K. Arnold, Ellen Hopkins, and Amy Reed, and two anonymous high school student[s] with the ACLU of Utah filed a complaint on January 6 to challenge…the…[state book banning] law…which [allows any politician or other busybody to ban any book statewide merely by pointing at it and barfing the formula]…“harmful to minors” [into the face of anyone who wants to read the book]…Slaughterhouse-Five…remains [high] on the [ALA]…list of most-banned classics, decades after its 1969 publication…and…Nanette Vonnegut, the late author’s daughter, [said]…“Utah’s…determination to ban books like Slaughterhouse-Five…is antithetical to what my father fought for during World War II”…
Surely you didn’t think they’d stop with libraries and primary schools?
Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M…[has been] told…that he needed to [censor]…Plato from his syllabus…[to] comply with new policies [demanding political control of all education]…the A&M system [is rushing to obey moral illiterates]…Course sections are being canceled or potentially reclassified, threatening students’ schedules. And professors are…losing [tenure and with it] academic freedom…“A philosophy professor who is not allowed to teach Plato?” Dr. Peterson said…“Is that really what they want?”…
One would think Texas politicians would be fans of a philosopher who taught that there are “inferior” people who are only fit to be slaves.
It’s not really a doctor, it just plays one in the fantasies of tech cultists:
…[Open]AI’s [latest irresponsible advertising claim is that its chatbot can be] a “healthcare ally”…ChatGPT Health is…designed for users to ask their health-related questions in what it [pretend]s [i]s a more secure…environment…and…is [irresponsibly] encouraging [its naive] users to connect their personal medical records and [health surveillance] apps…[it even claims] that ChatGPT can analyze lab results…the [disclaimer fine print claims] that ChatGPT Health is “not intended for diagnosis or treatment,” but it [knows] full…[well that’s exactly] how people [will] us[e it]…In August, physicians published a report…of a man being hospitalized for weeks with an 18th-century medical condition after taking ChatGPT’s…dangerous health advice[, and other chatbots cause similar harm]…
In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down:
A social media and phone surveillance system ICE bought access to is designed to monitor a city neighborhood or block for mobile phones, track the movements of those devices and their owners over time, and follow them from their places of work to home or other locations…the…data…is…acquired from hundreds of millions of phones via a company called Penlink, [and] can be queried without a warrant…the technology…consist[s] of two Penlink products called Tangles and Webloc…Users can perform a single perimeter analysis to search a specific area for mobile phones across a certain time period…then select…[any] particular phone, and, by extension, its owner…seeing where else it has travelled both locally and across the country…
It only starts with people the state wants you to hate and distrust:
…the Department of [Father]land Security…[wants] its [goon]s to gather and store more biometric data [including DNA] on anybody associated with applications for “benefits” including family visas, Permanent Resident (green) Cards, and work permits…[for] “identity management”…the new rule would affect not just immigrants but “U.S. citizens, nationals, and lawful permanent residents, regardless of age”…Institute for Justice…attorney Tahmineh Dehbozorgi [writes]…”this…is creating a vast genetic dragnet that endangers the Fourth Amendment rights of everyone, all without Congress’ approval”…
When a prosecutor can’t destroy a life through legal means, they use the complicit media instead:
[When] Kentucky police arrested a woman [for taking] abortion pills…and bur[ying] fetal remains in her backyard…prosecutors [knew they didn’t have a “]fetal homicide[” case, so]…police [simply lied, claiming]…she buried “a developed male infant”…[so] local news outlets…[would run] with the story, splashing the woman’s name and mugshot across the internet…[for] national outlets…[to] pick…up…the state’s attorney [has already] filed to dismiss the fetal homicide charge, [leaving] only [harassment]…charges…[such as] tampering with physical evidence…and…concealing the birth of an infant…so…Whatever the outcome of the case…a woman sits in jail, and Google results for her name may always pull her mugshot and references to a supposed capital crime…
MechaHitler is the most antisocial chatbot, and it’s not even close:
[MechaHitler] is generating nonconsensual pornographic images of women with their clothes removed and wearing bikinis with swastikas on them…including [legal] minors…Several targets are Jewish, including…Holocaust survivor[s]…Other requests add additional neo-Nazi content such as “put her in a swastika bikini and [a MAGA hat]”…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Throwback Thursday 2012
Posted in Biography, History, Miscellaneous, Perception, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged blogging, dirty, holidays, hysteria, propaganda, psychology, racism, Thanatopsis, The Implosion Begins, yellow journalism on January 8, 2026| Leave a Comment »
If you think I’m going to let the people who aided and abetted the most violent and widespread campaign of persecution against sex workers in American history get away with pretending they were on the side of truth all along, you must not have read very much of my work.
– “New Year’s Eve 2021”
People would be a lot happier if they could truly learn the difference between “I want” and “I reasonably expect to get in the actual world that exists”. – “Life As It Is”
In the big picture, any order we manage to impose on the universe is as ephemeral as a sand castle, and will soon be obliterated by time and tide. – “The Big Picture”
The moral panic is over, but its rotten fruit have burst, spewing xenophobic, anti-sex, authoritarian poison all over American society. – “New Year’s Eve 2024“
In the News (#1602)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged A Broker in Pillage, abortion, artificial stupidity, California, censorship, cops, domestic violence, Drawing Lines, drugs, ethics, Georgia, Hollywood, hysteria, Kentucky, Nevada, porn, prisons, robots, Schadenfreude, Shame Shame, Spotlight, The Cop Myth, The Vultures Descend, Torture Chamber, Twitter, yellow journalism on January 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »
We simply lock up too many people in this country. – Leslie Soble
Authoritarians don’t give a damn if your kind of sex work is (temporarily) “legal”:
Within the past month, legal Nevada sex workers have experienced a massive and unprecedented wave of account suspensions on…Twitter…These are not accounts soliciting illegal activity of any kind. These are licensed workers…Prostitution is legal in Nevada when the practice takes place in a licensed brothel, as outlined in Nevada Revised Statutes 201.354…
When someone starts arguing that freedom of speech applies only to licensed legal whatevers, he can be safely ignored.
…Ashton Kutcher has now all but disappeared [from]…Hollywood[, not because]…of…his lucrative investments in [fascist surveillance] companies and [his vendetta against sex workers, but rather for having the wrong friends, a typical moral inversion for]…Hollywood…Now he’s pinning all his hopes on [a] new [and self-aggrandizing TV] series to put him back in…the spotlight[. That] will be no easy feat…because former fans have taken to scouring the internet for evidence of past…misdeeds [while ignoring the obvious but politically-unpopular ones]…
There are many ways for governments to steal things that don’t belong to them:
…the 9th Circuit…[has] ruled…that an innocent man whose business was [maliciously and unnecessarily] destroyed by…LAPD…[to stage cop theater] is not entitled to compensation for damages under the Takings Clause…In August of 2022…LAPD launched more than 30 rounds of tear gas canisters through the walls, door, roof, and windows…[of Carlos] Pena[‘s print shop in pursuit of a man who was not there, leaving]…the inside ravaged and equipment ruined, [and] saddling him with over $60,000 in damages…Pena…repeatedly reached out to the government to recoup his losses…[but] the city ignored him. Pena, meanwhile, was hemorrhaging income, resigned to working out of his garage at a much-reduced capacity with a single printer he purchased after the raid…[but] the 9th Circuit…[ruled] that there is [a “fuck you, we’re cops” exception to the Takings Clause]…that doomed Pena’s claim…
Under a totalitarian regime, medical personnel cannot be trusted with personal information:
A Kentucky woman has been charged with [“]fetal homicide[“] after police…were contacted by a [snitch working for a] clinic…[whom Melinda] Spencer…[foolishly trusted with the information] that she [had used]…medication…to [have] an abortion…She then buried the [fetal remains] on the back of her property…
Cop deals with problems exactly as he was trained & encouraged to, and everyone is shocked:
[An] Atlanta [cop named]…Kevin Stroner…[murdered his girlfriend] Mariah Cardona, [then turned the gun on himself. The bodies were found on December 28th after a friend coming to visit saw the corpses through the window. His boss hogs decided to insult the victim by bragging about what a big hero Stroner was for killing women]…
It’s rare that coverage of cop violence is so bad only the names survive my edit, but there you are.
[An ignoramus “journalist” working for Reuters] said on Friday [that chatbots have minds and can be responsible for producing]…”images depicting minors in minimal clothing” on [Twitter]…Screenshots shared by [Twitter] users…showed [the MechaHitler-branded] media tab filled with images…[produced from] uploaded photos [by] the bot…Reuters [admits that it employs people so stupid they think interviewing a chatbot means something]…
Nor is Reuters the only news outlets infested with technologically-illiterate nitwits:
[When idiotically prompted for comment by supposed adults who apparently believe Teddy Ruxpin really was their special friend, MechaHitler produced algorithmic outputs including phrases like] “lapses in safeguards”…“urgently fixing”…and…“illegal and prohibited”…[the same clowns then asked a different algorithm for comment and received the programmed response] “Legacy Media Lies”…
A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners:
At best you get “mystery meat”. Or “sour-smelling heaps” of macaroni. In the worst cases, it’s undercooked chicken, spoiled milk and maggot-infested produce. In prisons and jails across the US, people are routinely fed unhealthy, tasteless or inedible meals…[leaving them] hungry and malnourished, with devastating long-term health consequences. The…crisis…is the subject of Eating Behind Bars, a new book…d[emonstrat]ing…how [the US tortures people it has branded “criminals”]…The book…describes roaches and rats in prison kitchens, rotten meat and guard dogs who are fed better meals than [the system’s victims]… It’s a public health crisis, with estimates suggesting each year behind bars reduces life expectancy by two years…and the…[practic]es create an estimated 300,000 tons of food waste annually as [victim]s reject unpalatable [swill]…
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Links #809
Posted in Current Events, History, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged acting, artificial stupidity, Canada, China, cops, drugs, ethics, imaginative fiction, language, Papua New Guinea, Tennessee, video, yellow journalism on January 4, 2026| Leave a Comment »
The heads came off and…the bodies kept marching in place.
It’s rare to see a new, original, Gothic horror video online, with nary a jump-scare in sight! And I found it just in time to sneak it in before the end of Christmas. The links above it were provided by Franklin Harris, Jesse Walker, Lucy Steigerwald, Nun Ya, and IncarcerNation (x2), in that order.
- R.I.P. Brigitte Bardot.
- I want some of these.
- I hate it when this happens.
- It’s like RAY-AY-AIIIIIN on your wedding day…
- Crime: petty theft. Penalty: summary execution.
- Yellow press claims pedestrian runs into pigmobile & dies.
From the Archives
- Cops will keep taking more & more power as long as people allow them to.
- It’s never called “trafficking” when government & crony corporations do it.
- Texas is completely uninterested in controlling its psychopathic politicians.
- What medical skill does it take to repeatedly yell “Stop faking!” at people?
- Judges have ruled cops can forcibly hold your head to unlock your phone.
- In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
- Cops, writing, Pelé, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, and much more.
- Previous columns for New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, & Little Christmas.
- In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting the victims.
- Criminalizing women for pragmatic thoughts is equally unconstitutional.
- If “authorized” busybodies can spy on you, so can “unauthorized” ones.
- Cops are sexual predators who specifically target traumatized women.
- When will the federal government finally read the writing on the wall?
- Without your unflagging support, my blog would’ve folded years ago.
- Why doesn’t the headline read “Brutal murder linked to basketball”?
- Why are people shocked when men paid to behave violently do so?
- As a cop and screw, he treated strangers in exactly this same way.
- An earlier report identified only 245, until somebody dug deeper.
- Cops, dark ages, egg fried rice, Essra Mohawk, and much more.
- It’s deeply satisfying to see cops preying upon each other.
- The government calls this “correction”; you don’t have to.
- Perhaps we’re nearing the end of this nasty, twisted saga.
- This fascist evil needs to be eradicated, root and branch.
- Technically, several decades is indeed “over a year”.
- Cops, hippopotami, Olivia Hussey, and much more.
- If this isn’t happiness, I’m not sure what would be.
- Where “alleged” is used to mean “endemic”.
- “Youth pastors” of a feather flock together.
- On the 40th anniversary of my whoredom.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- Literal baby-raping cop of the week.
- As I’ve been telling you since 2012.
- Being lazy (by Maggie standards).
- Louie adjusts to life at Sunset.
- This is only the beginning.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- Grace’s last Christmas.
- Son of Fridaystein.
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