Apollo's Lyre
A musing site καλώς ήρθατε! Here I, the most honest lyre this side of Delphi, pass along esoteric truths I have divined from the swirling smoke and shifting shadows. Most portents pertain to politics, culture, and society, but not all...
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Lindsay Clancy (opens the original)
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Here are a few quick things I didn’t see people discuss about the next Woke Disney princess, the belle of the courtroom ball, the girl who captured the heart of a nation by stopping the hearts of her kids, the scariest thing on wheels since Carrie or those roller-skate monsters in Return to Oz: Miss Lindsaaaaay Claaaaaaaaancy! (I really should be a ringside announcer.) If only the late, great Miss Lindsay Graham could've lived to see a Lindsay even more reviled—and certainly more virile—than he.
Fight the Future (opens the original)
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PrologueIn these divided times, there seems to be only one topic on which everyone agrees: artificial intelligence is bad.Men and women of all ages, races, and creeds—people from across the ever-widening political divide—have united in a singular show of solidarity to exalt in their unique humanity and denounce the evils of truth and love artificial intelligence (commonly referred to as “A.I.”)1It brings a tear to my
Episode 20: Time is on My Side (opens the original)
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Welcome back on the highway, buddies!In this episode, the Buddies1 start off discussing a fascinating phenomenon: people are growing increasingly aware of how horrible modern media is, but their programming won’t let them acknowledge the real reason: the Woke Mind Virus.Apollo wastes an amazing Katamari Damacy joke on Nomad, who has never played the game. Nomad wast
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." (opens the original)
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Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or fut
The Terrible Cost of War (opens the original)
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