An observer, and occasional participant, in the cross-pollination of thoughts and words that is Twitter. (at)wanderinchild on Bluesky and Instagram
Central Point, OR
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Chris Carter retweeted
The breakneck race to destroy *any* connection to a shared or objective reality is one of the most repulsive things going on right now in tech
You WILL be alienated from every other human on earth. You WILL be embalmed in your own delusions, and you’ll pay us $20/month for it
Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI system that could rewrite what people say during livestreams in real time. It could change words depending on who's watching, taking into account their age, location, and language.
The idea is to clean up broadcasts by removing filler words, censoring swearing, or even replacing certain words.
The AI could also adjust the speaker's lip movements so viewers wouldn't notice anything had been changed.
Chris Carter retweeted
“And say farewell, farewell to Alexandria leaving.”
– C.P. Cavafy, “The God Abandons Antony”, translated by Lawrence Durrell, who died 7 November 1990.
Chris Carter retweeted
Holy shit they're busting out the "human shields" line
Translating from barbarian, it means they're about to indiscriminately murder civilians
Chris Carter retweeted
"People would be upset if public libraries were proposed today" is one of the most insightful quips about the mindset of a large swath of people today.
Chris Carter retweeted
"Why in God’s name do we want to control the earth? Is it because of our success in ruling men? We want to rule Russia and we cannot rule Alabama. We tried to rule Porto Rico and gave it the highest suicide rate in the world… How have we equipped ourselves to teach the world? To teach the world democracy, we chose a Secretary trained in the democracy of South Carolina; when we wanted to unravel the worst economic snarl of the modern world, we chose a general trained in military tactics at West Point; when we want to study race relations in our own borders we summon a baseball player… We who hate niggers and darkies propose to control a world full of colored people…" -W.E.B. Du Bois, 1949
Chris Carter retweeted
Western journalists are openly acting as state propagandists, justifying murder and aggression. They used to be more sophisticated — they at least tried to hide it. Ironically, when their economies collapse, they'll be among the first to lose their jobs.
New X subscription pricing model releases the day after an election Elon Musk tried to rig with a nearly half-a-billion dollar expenditure, and it's completely apeshit.
Chris Carter retweeted
The White House is actively working to establish a dictatorship. Suspending habeas means indefinite detention of political opponents, citizen & noncitizen. And Democrats are talking about the need for "bipartisanship"?
Stephen Miller says that the Trump administration is 'actively looking at' suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right to challenge unlawful detention
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a May 2025 clip. Stephen Miller said the Trump administration was actively looking at suspending habeas corpus. Reports indicate the proposal was seriously debated but White House lawyers advised it requires Congressional action. No suspension has occurred.
reason.com/2026/06/17/the…
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dailycaller.com/2025/05/09/ste…
Chris Carter retweeted
Save this image so you can post it under all of these dumbass thirst trap videos of him. We're not going to let people pretend like his record isn't atrocious.
Chris Carter retweeted
yeah WA is deep blue, but it’s full of these kind of “progressives” who’ve never had to challenge their own beliefs, and when they do they sound just like every other right wing bigot
Chris Carter retweeted
France is struggling with its own crises, yet this pompous little Napoleon of the European Parliament is plotting “ground action” in Iran. The sheer combination of strategic illiteracy, imperial delusions and comic self-importance is breathtaking.
La sécurité de l’Europe passe par la chute du régime des mollahs. Drones iraniens contre l’Ukraine, missiles menaçant l’Europe, Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, cellules dormantes et réseaux terroristes sur notre sol, déstabilisation du Moyen-Orient et menaces sur nos approvisionnements énergétiques.
Rencontre passionnante avec le prince @PahlaviReza . Le renversement du régime passera nécessairement par une action au sol. Mais il faut passer par trois leviers :
1. Renforcer la résistance intérieure : résilience et moyens de défense de la population, accès à Internet et aux réseaux sociaux, davantage de défections au sein du régime.
2. Affaiblir le régime : mobiliser les pays voisins, couper les financements du Hezbollah, du Hamas et des Houthis, faire pression sur ses soutiens russes, chinois et nord-coréens, examiner les circuits financiers liés au Qatar et au Pakistan, agir sur les avoirs gelés en Allemagne et au UK.
3. Créer un mouvement international de soutien : mobiliser États et opinions publiques, coordonner les pressions et préparer la transition démocratique.
#Iran
Chris Carter retweeted
finding it impossible to tolerate how everything becomes entertainment to americans. war is discourse, elections are a sports event, politicians are celebrities, and the suffering of everyone beyond their borders isanother subject for debate. i don't have the heart for it
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𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿
How hard the year dies: no frost yet.
On drifts of yellow sand Midas reclines,
Fearless of moaning reed or sullen wave.
Firm and fragrant still the brambleberries.
On ivy-bloom butterflies wag.
‘That the Science of Cartography Is Limited’ by Eavan Boland
ALT That the Science of Cartography Is Limited —and not simply by the fact that this shading of forest cannot show the fragrance of balsam, the gloom of cypresses is what I wish to prove. When you and I were first in love we drove to the borders of Connacht and entered a wood there. Look down you said: this was once a famine road. I looked down at ivy and the scutch grass rough-cast stone had disappeared into as you told me in the second winter of their ordeal, in 1847, when the crop had failed twice, Relief Committees gave the starving Irish such roads to build.
ALT Where they died, there the road ended and ends still and when I take down the map of this island, it is never so I can say here is the masterful, the apt rendering of the spherical as flat, nor an ingenious design which persuades a curve into a plane, but to tell myself again that the line which says woodland and cries hunger and gives out among sweet pine and cypress, and finds no horizon will not be there. by Eavan Boland from In a Time of Violence published by Carcanet Press Limited, 1994