Your first patient (Yeah)
Is suffering from a lack of concepts (Uh-huh)
Originality (Ugh)
His flow is weak (Another one)
And he has no style (Ugh)
You are so fake so picture me like a gallery
Capture what I say, all I need is one mic, all I need is one take
-Dr Carter, Lil Wayne
Episode 3 reveals the influence hobgoblins, druids and trolls have on politics, juries and the price of marshmallows.
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
-Hitchhikers Guide
J Robinson’s public utterance: “Tortoise Media investigation showing it [public opinion] was largely inauthentic activity”
“Investigation”!?
“Showing”!?
“Largely”!?
“Inauthentic”!?
“Words to memorize
Words hypnotize
Words make my mouth exercise”
-Violent Femmes, Add it Up
A Cambridge professor supplying a wafer thin veneer of academic sheen to this wacky disinformation klatch among buck chasers.
Join them from 1830-1930 BS Time
“You should enter it in festivals.
….or Carnivals!!”
-Kevin Malone, The Office
Twas the night before Xmas
And under the roof
A cliche was stolen
And it was about truth
This case was not Lively
She was televised proof
All that remains
Are nicked cliches about ‘truth’
Bredehoft resigned
Kaplan before her
Yet they keep on talking
Talking like lawyers
Now what happens to justice?
And media too?
Will it ever come back?
Will it ever unscrew?
Let’s hope for the best in 2025
Less air time for all those who scheme and connive
Brighter days are coming
Put Sinatra on Spotify
And until you learn how
Please do not use ‘personify’!
There is a fascinating Hollywood story underneath the story you think you know, and this ain’t it.
Books sourced by buck and clout chasers serve the chasers, not the truth.
NYT “Rachel Abrams did investigate the bot army”
In reality, she hounded online journalists, assembled a handful of national security writers at the NYT to investigate me, and refused to transparently ask me her interview questions on twitter
I wrote the NYT general counsel…
This reimagination of history just out in the New Yorker - Claiming AH’s and her friends’ and family’s personal info were leaked online.
In this case, accusations were actually confessions.
Back in reality, who that actually happened to was me (re my family home at that time)
Why does getting doxxed, and then having the New Yorker twist it around matter?
My home was burglarized and bugged - the bug was built into a piece of furniture just six inches away from my pillow.
According to the book, I’m “Johnny’s Svengali” (sinister influencer), while Elon Musk has a “sense of justice.”
The book then spends 1 paragraph glossing over shocking deposition testimony they don’t understand from Eastern Columbia Building concierge chief Trinity Esparza.