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Mike Godwin
@mnemonic.bsky.social
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Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
Shhhh, don't tell them.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
It's the Darkest Timeline: the timeline that reached 1. youtu.be/POT3plx0vBs?...
The Darkest Timeline: The '1' Timeline | Community
YouTube video by Community
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
Randy Newman captured the zeitgeist. genius.com/Randy-newman...
Randy Newman – Sail Away
“Sail Away” by Randy Newman appears on his album, Sail Away (1972). Newman presents “the pitch” of an American slave trader to Africans in Bonny, off the west coast of Nigeria
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
Just the opposite. See this for the baseline expectation: www.npr.org/2024/10/23/n...
'I need the kind of generals that Hitler had': The reporting behind Trump's comment
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic talks with NPR's Juana Summers about former President Donald J. Trump's perspective on military personnel.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 1d
As an online MAGA discussion continues, the probability of a laudatory reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis all-too-briskly approaches 1.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d
I just realized you may not know how we use "project" here in English. What's your first language?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d
What do you think you're arguing with me about? Do you even know?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d
Why are you regurgitating "AI Overview" in my direction? Are you a bot?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 6d
Irrelevant to what?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 7d
Someone needs to tell the HardyPaw people about the base dewormer canard! hardypaw.com/products/dur...
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 7d
I don't think I projected this bit.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 7d
Gnomic much? (I can wait while you look that up.)
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
I don't believe your major or minor propositions. I think you're at best monomaniacal--at worst, certifiable. Sadly, I can't cure you by making fun of you. Your cure must come from within. Bye now.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
Well, I support your right to get wedged on dumbass opinions. But as philosopher Karl Popper liked to point out, the growth of knowledge depends on being able to recognize when your cherished theory is falsified. Feel free to share it publicly if you ever get there. Thanks in advance!
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
I mean, Jim Carrey is genuinely funny. Jenna McCarthy, not so much!
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
Oh, yeah, this guy is probably right there. DM me the list info, will you?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
Who do you think "the architects of the propaganda" are? Have you published their names anywhere?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
Democracy has its flaws, to be sure. (Plato's famous critique in THE REPUBLIC is not without merit.) But I think you're outvoted here on BlueSky. Maybe there's a anti-vax club room somewhere where your act would be well-received. Me, I'm still stunned you think my joke was about ivermectin.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
Honestly, I don't think Freud's examples of jokes in his JOKES book are terribly funny, but they do capture something of the theory of how jokes work--a functional relationship to the management of discomfort and disequilibrium.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
When it comes to deciding what's funny, I come down on the side of Jim Carrey rather than Jenna McCarthy. But ... seeing McCarthy's name as a co-author gives me a clue as to what bugs are inhabiting the hive up your ... oh, never mind.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
What's "skyhorsepublishing" and who are they when they're at home?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
What would you say the funniest joke you've ever told is? Can you post it here? Where can I read more of your writings about the nature of humor? I've got some time this weekend to read something if you can point me to any of your published work on jokes.
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
When you tell me what's not funny, why should I credit your opinion over the 400+ people (so far) who disagree with you (and that's just on Bluesky!)? Do you have a doctorate in humorology? Where did you publish? What's your take on Freud's JOKES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE UNCONSCIOUS?
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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 8d
P.S. Actual statistics, published, or you're just masturbating in public here. (I'm pro-masturbation generally, but not so much as performance art on social media, contra to your demonstrations, supra.)
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