Me: ...and I have anti-ICE whistle kits for adults if you want them. The adult: ...what? Six-year old: It's a WHISTLE KIT for when ICE is snatching someone off the street so you can let other people know! Duh! The adult looking at me, crushed that a six year old knows this: I'll have one. Thanks.

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Thinking, as I do every Halloween, about ‘route of ghost’

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some media theorists have traced part of the current predicament to the development of the 24-hour news cycle requiring "content" to fill it, and others to the proliferation of networks requiring the same. and maybe... but there's always an implied, "on the cheap."

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<quick googling> wow, "chewing gum for the eyes" goes back to 1958 and is attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright. About TV.

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AI accelerated an existing process. we were already getting all manner of risk-averse, rote, chintzy, cookie-cutter "content". why was it popular? because it filled the social function of "content" well enough. and the function usually was to act as the minimum necessary placeholder.

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