Michael Brendan Dougherty

Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful. Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids?

Not very advanced. Daily brief and two entertainingly personalized chat bots. Was going to setup some web scraping with Venice AI powered agents in next tinkering session. Can see a path toward organizing a lot of my research but I’m not a software engineer and really seems like coded solutions are better than plain english .md files

@michaelbd how are you using openclaw/claude these days?

It seems like this would lead OpenClaw users to add Claude Code to their headless Macs and use it for data sensitive work, while still using Open Claw and cheaper LLMs to handle grunt work.

@foster_type I’m not sure.

@michaelbd the point is that there are way more nuts to pick from! But I agree that, even if that's true, it doesn't make nut-picking itself productive.

It must frustrate the few earnest "restrainers" to be surrounded by maniacal mountebanks and evil retards.

@foster_type Yeah, I’m not out here repeating everything every critic of the war is saying either. But I’m not going to let one side take the privilege of nut and fruit picking.

@michaelbd I'll give you Loomer though I don't consider myself to be in any school or camp with either of them.

@AaronCSmith1 @foster_type Good night, don’t let the Islamo-fascists’ bite!

@michaelbd @foster_type So no. The answer is no, you can’t point to anything equivalent.

The kind of demagoguery that Levin offers nightly- you’re either with us, or you’re an Islamofascist only lacks equivalence with Moseley’s rhetoric in that so few people are moved by it. It’s obviously more repulsive than anyone saying “Don’t imprison people for political speech,” which is different from a wholesale defense of everything Moseley did.

@michaelbd @foster_type Can you identify a statement of Levin’s that is the equivalent of defending Mosley?

Wow now there’s a basis to reunited with the Stephen Bandera wing of the liberal world order people.

@SteveSkojec Stay cool man. I wondered if you missed it so I didn’t come real hard. I know you’re sore for good reason but was pretty sure you weren’t well, all the way out there

I just re-read the post in question. I missed that line entirely about what was in the hair. I was skimming, saw valid criticisms, RTed prematurely. It's been a long day in an unbelievably shitty part of my life, and I shot first and asked questions later. I've deleted my comment. That part was uncalled for. Mea culpa.

@Goodstyle42 Sure Jan x.com/gop/status/185…

@michaelbd Like, what has Trump done to make the people who like this war seethe at his foreign policy? He was never an anti-war President!

It’s really funny watching people who have been seething about Trump’s foreign policy for a decade now pretending to be the gatekeepers.

Rigid ideologues. Pot meet kettle.

@JoelWBerry @GigaBasedDad @LibertyCappy Jesus says “By their fruits you shall know them.” So apparently even our Lord allows extra-Biblical data into judgement.

@GigaBasedDad @LibertyCappy Im not a dispensationalist, but why are you changing your entire theology based on foreign policy disagreements instead of scripture?

I'm actually a premillennial dispensationalist However, because of the acts of premillennial dispensationalist Christians, and the wicked acts of other foreign nations they endorse, I am starting to reconsider my eschatological views Am I the only one?

@FaringForwards @latte_elitist Eh, Korea and Japan still have some hot feelings about the 20th century.

@latte_elitist The entire period 1917-21 saw fewer people killed across the whole island than were killed in one night on one street in many WW2 bombing raids. And many of those people were killed by the IRA not the British.

It's amazing how you see some Irish people obessessing about events over a century ago in which pratically no civilains were killed, when the Brits, Germans & Japanese managed to forgive each other for the obliteration of entire cities within a few decades of WW2.

Isolationism has now gone from wanting to fight three wars instead of six to wanting to fight shorter wars rather than longer ones.

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" no longer good enough. America's people to be instrumentalized for *mission civilisatrice*

@SaintVanHalen LOL.

@michaelbd Both can be true

Yesterday you were saying the war’s obvious success was wrecking the isolationist wing.

So, as expected, the European Commission has finally activated the Digital Services Act’s (DSA) “rapid response system” in the context of the upcoming Hungarian elections, which gives EU-funded “fact-checkers” and “NGOs” a veto over online speech in Hungary. This is a serious escalation in the EU’s interference in the Hungarian elections. The official explanation is that this is needed to combat “Russian interference”. But as I noted in a recent article for @compactmag, no evidence whatsoever has been produced to support this claim. The narrative almost exclusively relies on an “investigation” by journalists at the Warsaw-based nonprofit VSquare, which claims that Putin has instructed a group of political strategists and Russian military intelligence to interfere in the parliamentary elections in Hungary in April in order to ensure that Orbán wins. And what is the evidentiary basis for this extraordinary claim? It boils down to this (literally): “Multiple European national security sources have told me.” In other words, no evidence whatsoever is provided. We are simply asked to trust the “investigative journalists” in question. One might be inclined to extend that trust if the outlet in question were genuinely independent. Regrettably, it is not. A glance at VSquare’s donor list reveals it to be less an independent journalistic outfit than a textbook example of artificial civil society, funded by entities like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and various EU-funded consortia. In other words, VSquare is part and parcel of the “color revolution” infrastructure that, for decades, has sought to bring Central and Eastern Europe in line with the agenda of Brussels and Washington. It’s clear what is happening: they’re applying the Russiagate script that was previously used to subvert the elections in Romania just over a year ago. The aim is twofold. Ideally, tilt the elections in favour of the pro-EU, pro-war opposition candidate Péter Magyar by using the DSA to influence the pre-election online narrative. It’s well-known that the the EU’s “rapid response system” enables approved third parties — the aforementioned EU-funded “fact-checkers” and “NGOs” — to submit priority content moderation requests that disproportionately affect “populist” or EU/NATO-critical actors. If this doesn’t work — and it’s unlikely to work in the Hungarian context — then the allegations of Russian interference serve the purpose of laying the groundwork to delegitimise the result if Orbán wins, by seeding seeding a story of “stolen” or “unfair” elections. This is incredibly dangerous, and is yet another confirmation that the very institutions invoking the threat of foreign interference to justify their intervention are themselves the most consequential foreign actors in Hungary’s election. Read the full article here: compactmag.com/article/russia…