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Jan 19, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

you of all people should know that the algorithm disdains sarcasm.

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Maybe "tar and feather" has to be replaced with a positive algorithm version that doesn't trigger the censors. "Decorate and sprinkle."

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Well, cheer up. Jacinta Ardern just resigned. Tide is turning. Of course, where it heads next is anyone's guess. But maybe it will take all the humorless and over-literal-minded with it.

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Jan 19, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

madness is endemic. how can we help??

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Jan 19, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

That's hilarious because like 90% of twitter is (figuratively) tarring and feathering someone. You can do it to your heart's content. You just can't say it out loud, I guess.

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Elon missed a few in the layoffs.

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Jan 19, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

Haha, I got a 12-hour suspension for the same phrase! I don't think anyone has actually been tarred and feathered since the 1700s, bit twits at Twitter maybe don't know history and think it is an immediate threat.

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Jan 19, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

Of all the tweets you've posted, this is the one that got you suspended?!😂

And toward Pierre Kory! 😂😂😂

May the reinstatement be swift!

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Some folks with right brain hemisphere damage read metaphor and irony quite literally, as these are parts of language that are mediated by the right brain hemisphere's way of attending to the world, and hence this taking irony as literal by the algorithm is another sign of Dr Iain McGilchrist's warning that the west has become a left-hemisphere over-activated world, and most of society is behaving as if they had a right hemisphere stroke...

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You'd think the algorithm should at least be smart enough to figure out that if the target of the alleged harassment is not aggrieved, it is obviously not harassment

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Detected by AI or mob-reported by leftists with equal brain power. Best wishes; the appeal process has been glacial, for me: suspended in May 2021, for offering a calm, factual professional medical opinion.

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Feb 1, 2023Liked by Alexandros Marinos

Came here because I noticed you'd been missing from my feed. What an incredibly dumb situation. Sarcasm going illegal was not on my bingo card. Guess I'll go catch up on your Substack now...

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Maybe tar and feather was too old-school for the algorithm to comprehend? 🤷‍♂️

I generally view grant money with a tiny bit of skepticism. I think everything with that FTX stuff and the RECOVER trials warrant serious consideration, but if we look at every study and consider if it was funded by Gates, Zuckerberg, NIH, or any big person really then we'd be left hardly with any studies that would meet this criteria. It's unfortunately a consequence of how most science is funded, although there really should be more impartial funding if it can be made possible.

Because of that it seems more important to engage with studies to see if there's something strange about them, which may indicate something may be occurring.

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Medieval twitter algorithms switched on - check! Don't mention throwing rotten fruit at people whilst in the stocks or you'll be in big trouble!

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There is a not so well-known literary device called APOPHASIS.

We should NEVER call @AngyCardio an unmitigated ignorant idiot, NEVER. Even though it is true, she is protected by some get-out-of-idiotspeak-jail-free card that protects idiots.

Go straight to Twitter jail, do NOT pass Go, do NOT challenge her collect $1m from Steve Kirsch...

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how many eye rolls-worthy is that infraction? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 ..looks like a 10 out of 10!

Btw, I am still permanently suspended for saying the vax was killing people...enter another eye roll here.

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