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—THREE GATES— If I am tempted to reveal A tale someone to me has told About another, let it pass, Before I speak, three gates of gold. Three narrow gates: First, is it true? Then, is it needful? In my mind Give truthful answer, and the next Is last and narrowest, Is it kind? And if, to reach my lips at last, It passes through these gateways, three, Then I may tell the tale, nor fear What the result of speech may be. —Beth Day.

I wonder how many people have wrecked because they got an SMS political text message and checked their phone. It should be illegal for them to send this crap to something I’m paying for.

Genius!

Does anyone else have a nagging fear of accidentally posting a recording of taking a leak? Like a butt dial but a post? Unwarranted I’m sure…

—SLANDER— Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. —Henry Ward Beecher.

It should be a federal law that if you’re on Social Security, at that age or disabled, your ad valorem tax should be suspended until you pass away.

—REVENGE— A little girl was making faces at a bulldog. Her mother reprimanded her. "Well, he started it, “ said the girl. No doubt the girl was right, for it is no trouble for a bulldog to look ugly. The weakness was in the girl's conclusion drawn from the dog's face. The dog was probably innocent, but if not, the girl gained nothing by competing with him in making faces. The person who proceeds on the theory that he must return every ugly face he sees, or every ugly act which is directed toward him, will have a never-ending and profitless job. Hate has injurious effects on the person who resents, so that he is the chief sufferer. —Telescope.

Whoa.😳

My morning coffee is never without friends. I have twin orange tabbies, and each comes and hangs for 15 minutes with me whilst I’m having my coffee just to say good morning.

—CRITICISM— Of course, there are some folks who do not seem to be able to cooperate. Their long suit is criticism—destructive and not constructive criticism, at that. To such I would quote the words of Edmund Burke: “Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover, but for God's sake, let us pass on!" —unknown

The singularity in AI/SI is when we no longer control its advance. The event horizon. The point of no return.

Y’all the @bot capabilities are endless. It’s like the Green Lantern, “Your construct is only limited by your imagination.”

Here is a link to a Google Drive folder with the nonpartisan anti-bias ballot research reports I’ve completed by request using @bot : drive.google.com/drive/mobil…

—Dead Leaves—