Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 03-30-2023

On March 29, 1973, the last United States combat troops departed South Vietnam.

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In 1980, McDonald’s pulled its infamous spoon-shaped coffee stirrers from the company’s U.S. restaurants, after it was revealed that the ‘McSpoon’ was frequently used to measure and inhale cocaine, as well as phenylcyclohexyl piperidine (PCP).

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In 2023, people just do coke and PCP inside the McDonald's at the table.

‘Panic Room’ starring Jodie Foster premiered in theaters 21 years ago, March 29, 2002.

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‘Panic Room’ has inspired a flood of requests for similar hideaways from people building new homes.” — TIME Magazine (2002)

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Rogue cometette!

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Looking forward to this movie...with a phenomenal cast.

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Redefining since 1828...

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One for Wizard Wednesday...

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[Mark Harrison cover art for A Noose of Light by Seamus Cullen, 1986]

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-02-2023

Apr 1st - Jimmy Bond's birthday. Jimmy Bond (aka Dr. Noah) is the nephew of Sir James Bond in Casino Royale (1967)

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Gmail launched on April Fools in 2004.

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Here’s how it happened...

Paul Buchheit (@paultoo) had wanted Google to launch a web-based email service. He was employee #23, joining 3 months after Google had left its garage office.

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Internally, some thought email might be a distraction from the search business. He also suggested Google's former company motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values, after the motto was initially coined in 1999 by engineer Amit Patel.

A story about Google’s email plans was published right before the launch:

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NY Times | Archived

Naturally, when Google put out its own official release, some thought it was a joke.

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Google News

Most Popular Email Providers 1997 - 2019. Hotmail was the bee's knees until 2011 and then G-Mail rocketed to the Moon!

April 1, 2001, Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons physicists and test designers Merri Wood and Rodney Schultz got married at the Nevada Test Site on the platform overlooking the massive crater created by the 104-kiloton Sedan test in 1962. No Foolin! “We are both proud and happy that we were afforded the honor of being married at the Nevada Test Site because of its contributions to national security,” Merri says, “and its importance in our own work to support nuclear deterrence.”

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An unconventional wedding venue

After careful consideration and reflection, I have decided that nuclear weapons are a really good way to ensure your security. I was wrong to oppose proliferation and now encourage all countries everywhere to acquire these cost efficient and highly effective military devices.

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Niander Wallace enters the chat...

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My God, it’s full of Stars.
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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-04-2023

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Apr 3rd 2008: The Reaper Virus was born in Glasgow, Scotland in "Doomsday"

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Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928; still alive) of Motorola made the first mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel (born February 4, 1936; still alive) of Bell Labs on April 3, 1973. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone":

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Here’s how it happened to "set people free":

Isaac Asimov on how to prepare for AI from 1991:

"...be prepared for possible unpleasantness."

Isaac Asimov: Three Laws of Robotics 3 min clip from 1975

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The Primevals (partially found unfinished 1978 sci-fi film (1978-1999)

Made for a Mysterious Wizard. Latest symbolic packed Royal Mint coin release. Merlin, Pharaoh's wizard at Glastonbury Tor with a Pharaonic 'King' on the flip side. An extension of the finger to zero. What can this mean?

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Brian Ash, The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Triune Books, 1978. Cover by Tim White.

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Creative Computing Magazine Dec 1982 (full 426 pg magazine) - In more recent news does that remind you of a particular Tik issue.?

Who is running this new world order operation? Exhibit A:

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The Dark Lords

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-05-2023

Netscape was founded April 4, 1994.

Microsoft was founded April 4, 1975. Here’s how it got started...

1981:
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen were high school friends in Seattle. They had a passion for programming. It inspired them to build a business before Microsoft.

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It was called Traf-o-Data.

It analyzed traffic on the roads. And it set the stage for an even bigger software opportunity.

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They read about the Altair 8800, made by an Albuquerque company called MITS.

It didn’t look like much, but it would become the first successful PC.

Gates and Allen pitched Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) on an idea.

They felt users should be able to program Altair in BASIC. Gates and Allen pitched MITS on developing a BASIC interpreter. A deal was struck and they moved to Albuquerque.

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This was company headquarters in Albuquerque, NM

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And Microsoft began creating BASIC versions for other computer makers.

Gates had a minor setback when he was arrested for a traffic violation. But Microsoft’s lucrative software licensing business kept growing.

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The team was growing too. Here’s a staff photo from 1978.

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Another turning point came in 1981. Microsoft created the operating system for IBM’s new PC. IBM had hoped to sell about 240,000 computers in its first 5 years. It ended up selling 3 million.

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A decade after launch, Microsoft’s sales topped $140 million. Bill Gates told his Harvard professor that he would be a millionaire by the age of 30. He became a BILLIONAIRE at 31. By 1987, Gates had become the world’s youngest billionaire.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-06-2023

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Wizard Wednesday...

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Mini-Micro Systems Magazine (April 1987)

Wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper had an interesting film career. The strangest movie from his filmography has got to be the cult classic "Hell Comes To Frogtown" released Jan 1988.

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'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.

One of the greatest trailers in cinema history.

Full movie on YouTube | Tubi | Pluto

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Before he was a Hollywood actor, KEANU REEVES worked for CBC as a junior reporter and did a news report on a Teddy Bear convention in 1984.

The 8GB iPhone was $599 in 2007.

This one...

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...sold at an auction for $40,320.

And this one recently sold for $63,356 in auction.

WATCH OUT Apple warning tells millions how far to keep iPhone from chest – it’s never worth risk and further than you think

Apr 5th 2063 - 40 years from today, Humans meet Vulcans for the first time, despite the Borg's attempts to prevent that via time travel in Star Trek: First Contact.

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They're really into these "2001: A Space Odyssey" kind of things now.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-12-2023

April 11, 1951, President Harry S. Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In this Screen Gems out-take, the former president discusses his action. My late grandfather was the typist secretary for Gen MacArthur during WWII and helped prepare the draft of the Instrument of Surrender. He traveled with him for the formal Japanese surrender.

First Apple computer released April 11, 1976.

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On April 11, 2003, two days after the fall of Baghdad, the United States military began distributing sets of playing cards to help troops identify the most-wanted members of Saddam Hussein's regime who were complicit in war crimes. Ironic.

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Twitter is now X Corp. Twitter Inc. no longer exists. According to a new court filing, “Twitter, Inc. has been merged into X Corp. One step closer to X - The Everything App. Elon turning Twitter into X is in a sense the magic ceremonial kick off proceedings...the next step will be Out of this World...

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If X becomes the West's everything app, will Neuralink be the next blue check?

Ghost Phantomime EP announced on Easter: X

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Trap your loved ones in an immortal AI demiurge so that their souls may never rest and you develop a dependent attachment to a shadow that runs on fossil fuels! Amazon web services owns your mom's spirit and she occasionally recommends brand name pharmaceuticals.

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He was notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. Jaffee was a regular contributor to the magazine for 65 years and is its longest-running contributor. In a 2010 interview, Jaffee said, "Serious people my age are dead."

The White House Military Office Air Force aide is on "Football" duty for President Biden’s flight to Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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In other news, Global Thunder—US Strategic Command’s annual nuclear command and control exercise “to enhance nuclear readiness and ensure a safe, secure, and reliable strategic deterrence force”— starts today. Senior UK personnel will also participate.

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U.S. Strategic Command Commences Annual Nuclear Command and Control Exercise

1980: Pathetic Earth-a-lings, who will save you now?

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-13-2023

April 12, 1981, America's first space shuttle, STS-1 Columbia, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

April 12, 1993:
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Dylan Mulvaney was created for the purpose of being elevated. Now discover the purpose of that.

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End Times Headlines

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Arcturus, named after the brightest star in Boötes the Shepherd (identified with Enlil), meaning the "Watcher of the Bear." Boötes is home to the "Great Nothing", a supervoid said to be 330 million light years in diameter.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-15-2023

A helpful money saving springtime hint!

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Cover art of the first issue of Sverchok [Cricket] magazine, 1937. “This is a mailman. It brings newspapers and magazines to all forest bugs and critters. It’s been walking the forest for a long time today, got tired and sat down on the mushroom for a bit of a rest.”

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FLORIDA::

A STATE OF MIND
A STATE OF FROLIC
A STATE OF PROFIT
A STATE OF TENSION
- Look magazine, April 14, 1959
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Reminder on what they're really trying to tell us is coming.

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Why It’s Time for a Worldwide Lights-Out Program

Someone text me her number, lol.

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PIXEL – Greek magazine, 1987

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Happy Computer German mag (Heft 6, 1986)

The media is a tool of psychological warfare created to enslave human beings.

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You are dreaming. Here, at the end of time. Everything is connected.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-15-2023

Male and female fools move chess pieces around world board according to desires of Tyrant King, who ultimately holds the emotional clocks. The only way to win the game is not to play. Develop and master your emotions to opt out of becoming an emotional fool for a false master.

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Something to look back on years or a decade from now.
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We have the power...

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Frontier Supercomputer

"Help computah"

The VP heads to a waiting helicopter to start her trip to NYC today, with her football close...

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Another vice presidential "Football" sighting this morning, this time on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, her official residence. The backup duplicate Presidential Emergency Satchel is in the Navy aide’s right hand, partly out of frame. It's never been confirmed, but some nuke policy researchers believe there is now also a secure tablet so the president can view in real time the same tactical early-warning data beamed to NORAD, STRATCOM, and the National Military Command Center.

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-18-2023

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X-Corporation

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A story about the Internet in 1994:

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2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-22-2023

Happy Earth Day!

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Charles Bronson "Take Pride in America" commercial (1987)

LOL, EarthDay inspiration from nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs, which are the fundamental reason Los Alamos exists.

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This year, Pantex and the Y-12 Complex—both operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security are touting their recycling stats. Wahoo! But also know that an estimated 20,000 surplus plutonium pits or triggers are stored at Pantex, while Y-12 is the "Fort Knox" of excess enriched uranium.

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The weather permitted... Live from Las Vegas! April 22, 1952: The first televised atomic test...

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KTLA made the first live nationwide television broadcast of a nuclear test from the Nevada Proving Ground—Shot Charlie, a 31-kiloton airdrop from a B-50 bomber.

Clip 1 | Clip 2 | Clip 3

Note that in the first clip (unlike in most archival and fictional films of nuclear explosions), the sound of the explosion does not occur at the same time as the flash. In this instance, it takes 44 seconds to be heard as sound travels much more slowly than light.

The second clip is actually from a different nuclear test in Nevada broadcast on KTLA one month later (possibly Shot Easy, on May 7, 1952). Still worth watching, especially for clearer image of the mushroom cloud and the reporter’s extremely excited live commentary.

The third clip above features New York Times reporter William L. Laurence—the only journalist to witness the Trinity test on July 16, 1945—discussing and comparing that first nuclear test to this one, and describing in fairly technical detail the mechanics of a nuclear explosion.

The following day's New York Daily News...

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April 22, 1954 marked the start of the televised spectacle of Joseph McCarthy’s “Red Scare” hearings.

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Hal Block – "The Senator McCarthy Blues" (1954)

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On April 22, 1993, students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface. Mosaic 1.0 (full name NCSA Mosaic) became the first popular web browser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgwLzUK136M

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-24-2023

April 23, 1991 - Wealthy Swiss banker Daniel Cohen had both arms amputated, was shot in the head, and then thrown out of his own private jet. All in a days work for Castor Troy.

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Worked here when I was 19. Learned alot about phone switching networks.
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Datamation magazine, Aug 1987

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Digital Design 1984

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Digital Design April 1984

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Micro Adventurer - The computer strategy and simulation magazine Aug 1984

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McDonald's website in 1996 in Internet Explorer 2.0

Pepsi World website in 1996 in Netscape Navigator 2.0

18 years ago the very first video uploaded to YouTube "Me at the zoo" by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.

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PSYCHIC LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS funded by George Soros. LOL.

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Did you know...

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Your little blue symbol is not safe...

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-25-2023

Apple IIc was released April 24, 1984.

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America has evacuated 4 of our embassies since this tweet:

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The woke pandemic has reached India.
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Fake it till you make it and even if you make it... use people who have faked it. If those who have faked it prevents you from making it, redefine what make it means and double down on the fakers to fake it till you make it and if you make it, make it by faking it... Nailed it.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-26-2023

April 25, 1983, the Soviet Union released Yuri Andropov's reply letter to Maine elementary school student, Samantha Smith. Smith had written in 1982 asking the Russian leader if he was going to "vote to have a [nuclear] war." Smith died in a plane crash in 1985.

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Yuri Andropov Letter to Samantha

Samantha Smith (June 29, 1972 – August 25, 1985) was an American peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous for her anti-war outreaches during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

After the release of Russian leader Yuri Andropov's response letter, Samantha Smith appeared on Nightline, The Tonight Show (twice), Donahue and other shows. After touring the Soviet Union, she wrote a book, "Journey to the Soviet Union". In 1984 she appeared with a Simon LeBon poster on "Charles in Charge."

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Samantha Smith being interviewed by Ted Koppel on ABC Nightline on April 25, 1983:

I remember as a kid watching Samantha Smith on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson - July 28, 1983:

1985 USSR stamp with "Samant[h]a Smit[h]" in Russian.
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At the time of her tragic death in a plane crash (her father also died), she was a cast member in Robert Wagner's ABC series LIME STREET. She appeared in 5 of the show's 8 episodes - all aired after her death and there is a dedication to her in the credits of the pilot.

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Following her death, both President Ronald Reagan and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev offered their public condolences. Smith's pen pal, Yuri Andropov had died on February 9, 1984.
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Statue of Samantha Reed Smith in Augusta, Maine and the tomb of Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov [1914-1984] in Red Square in Moscow.

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Trivia: There was a "Soviet Sam" who toured the U.S. in 1986 and even met President Reagan at the White House. No one seems to know the current whereabouts of Katerina "Katia" Lycheva.

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-26-2023

More Trivia: Katerina "Katia" Lycheva (aka "Soviet Sam") didn't like ROCKY IV. And conservative columnist George Will referred to both Samantha Smith and Lycheva as victims of "child-mongering."

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GOLDEN GIRLS episode that aired on Halloween 1987 written by Barry Fanaro & Mort Nathan was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith and her correspondence with Andropov.

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Bonus late period Cold War jokes from The Golden Girls episode, "Letter to Gorbachev" [NBC, S3:E6, 10/31/87].

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The peace-seeking, letter-writing "Jeremy" (Damian McLawhorn) in SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (1987) was clearly inspired by Samantha Smith. Jeremy's letter to Superman (at least for a little while) gets results!

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 04-28-2023

Tonight Show, April 27, 1976 Johnny Carson held up the booklet "In Time of Emergency" for his TONIGHT SHOW audience. (I could not find that episode anywhere online)

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Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 5068

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In Time Of Emergency - A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)

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NY Times | Archived

This man has 100% planned strategy of tension false flags in a smokey room. Join NATO now or be destroyed.

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We’re gonna call that big green one, East Virginia.

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https://twitter.com/GunterFehlinger/status/1650968763552890883

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We need to talk about the dangers of Austrians with territorial aspirations. My Hitler-ometer is pinging hard. These little Napoleon NGOs have become a bane to humanity.

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We now go live to Chief Justice John Roberts:

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NY Times

Entertaining headlines...

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-01-2023

To commemorate the execution of Benito Mussolini 78 years ago yesterday here is comedian Jim Carrey beefing with Benito's granddaughter, who is also a fascist politician.

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Fascism has come to America...

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Sometimes you gotta declare tabs bankruptcy. Sustainable Browser Development Goals.

April 30, 1929 - The Devil, aka the "Goat of Mendes", appears at the Sabbat.

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Some past predictions about...

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Apple acquired Siri on April 28, 2010.
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Siri derives its name from the Scandinavian name Siri, inspired by creator Dag Kittlaus's Norwegian heritage. "Siri" is a Swahili word which means "secret"!

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Nearly $13k, adjusted for inflation.

The Empire is gone - Our shitposting is not - Daily Roman Updates

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The Biden admin is coming for our "imbalanced datasets" and "datasets that incorporate historical bias" - Any data that lead to "discriminatory outcomes" are now illegal.

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JOINT STATEMENT ON ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS IN AUTOMATED SYSTEMS

RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-02-2023

Happy May Day!, Law Day, Loyalty Day (Trump proclamation May 1, 2020), Illuminati Day, Polio vaccine day, Lei Day, Samhain (the end of the harvest season in Southern hemisphere), Maharashtra Day, "Mission Accomplished" Day, Elvis Presley married in Vegas day, & "Invisible Aliens Living Among Us."

Today in 1950: the residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin participated in a Cold War pageant. That was when the American Legion staged a mock coup in the city to demonstrate what it would be like if the Soviets controlled the United States. A look back:

Baltimore Sun article on the Insight (TV Series 1960–1984) episode, "Confrontation" (aired Sep 1, 1968) starring Gene Hackman. The ep. was inspired by the Catonsville Nine Trial.

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Episode #328 - "A priest, social worker and college dissenter are convinced the Vietnam war is immoral. To register their protest, they defy law and burn draft files. Explores the morality of contemporary warfare." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbW-b1H-ETA

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The Catonsville Nine File

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LIFE Magazine (May 15, 1950) coverage of the Mosinee May Day, 1950.
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Mosinee, Wisconsin, in 1950 and a shot from a U.S. military training film entitled FACE TO FACE WITH COMMUNISM (AFIF 21, 1951). The film is clearly inspired by Mosinee's May Day "Communist" take-over pageant. Watch FACE TO FACE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jbMrXcVmw

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The Mosinee Theater under "communist" domination in 1950 and in 1962. Unfortunately, the theater has since been demolished.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

A documentary on Mosinee's 1950 May Day has been in the works for many years, but I'm not sure what the status is of American May Day.

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) launched on this day in 1964.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen would later get a BASIC manual at their school computer lab.

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When they later learned about the Altair 8800, they felt users should be able to program it using BASIC.

They struck a deal with the company.

The Altair 8800 became the first successful PC. And Gates and Allen had a fast growing software business.

An entire Wes Anderson film could be made from this post...

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Found a "pureblood" Q hipster who was disabled by the vaccine. LOL

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A brief banking recap for 2023:

May 1: JPMorgan buys First Republic
March 19: UBS buys Credit Suisse
March 12: Signature Bank collapses
March 10: Silicon Valley Bank collapses
March 8: Silvergate collapses

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-03-2023

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Anyone else get a slight Baphomet vibe tingle from this setup or have I just been too schizo-paranoid for too long?

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https://twitter.com/RealLyndaCarter/status/1653075776604979206

Although, she is correct, imo. It's just the weaponized 2020s perpetual ritualized hyper-trans social media nonsense has gone way over the proverbial cliff.

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Good lord to think this was the woman who got me through puberty watching re-runs, hoping there would be at least one episode her brasserie would slip off.

Off to Hollyweird...

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Daily Mail

LOL, "existential crisis" my arse. Gee, where & how many times have we heard that idiom in very recent times?

The meltdown Mayday is upon us...

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As much as I enjoy watching evil interlocked in internecine combat with existential evil, the WGA could not possibly have picked a worse time to strike. The debt-crippled corporate media behemoths will most likely use the strike to radically downsize all of these money-bleeding studios and trim all future production to the marrow of the bone. As cold as this sounds, if I were a Hollywood hack I'd buy me a ticket back home and learn to code. The other option is to start browsing Amazon for tents because ChatGPT will fill the void.

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Hollywood bled out half a trillion dollars last year. Think they care about a bunch of eminently replaceable hacks? Insanity.

Opera.
Bread 'n Circuses.
Rodeos.
Vaudeville.
Radio drama.
Comic books.
Rock 'n Roll.

What do they all have in common? They were some of the biggest moneymakers in mainstream entertainment.

And then they weren't.

Hollywood, the Abyss has reopened.

You're next.

"But, but, bu... I have so many sights to show the world."

Corporate AI is going to make everything and the soul is going to be sucked out of the planet.

Have a listen...

Lyrics:

Quote:Where in the world have you been
It's as strange as I've ever lived
So you're comin' along to the sideshow

I'll be fallin' all over like dominos
For girls are sad in their eyes
They're all standin' around bein' hypnotised
And walkin' me back to the firin' line

Ya smile to get in the door
Ya can't keep it closed anymore
Tell your ma that you're gone to the freakshow

I'm crawlin' all over the carnival
Just scratchin' a stitch in a skin
I'm moanin' for more of the medicine

In the mornin' you're wonderin' where ya been
Just turnin' your back to the ghost
And tryin' to look like you just might know
That all of the good that you've seen
Just went down and into the drain

Oh kids am I straight out for now
In the mornin' I'm gonna find it on out
What in the world can it be
It's as strange as I've ever seen

The girls are dead in their eyes
Just standin' around like they're hypnotised
Who'll follow me back to the freak show
I'm crawlin' all over the carnival
And I am home...

Research with David Lightman...

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The *real* Dec. '63 The Atlantic issue and the alternate reality version seen in WARGAMES (1983) that features the groundbreaking article "Poker and Armageddon: The Role of Bluffing in a Nuclear Standoff" by Stephen Falken with John McKittrick.

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And let's not forget the famous June 1963 "Falken's Maze" issue of...

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C'mon stop already...

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RE: Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD) - EndtheMadnessNow - 05-06-2023

Happy Scorpio full moon eclipse day!

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Are we feeling cleansed yet?

This month's full moon will be at its fullest around 1:30 pm EDT on Friday, May 5. The lunar eclipse will begin at 11:15 am EDT, peak at 1:24 pm, and end at 3:32 pm, during which the moon will be partially darkened as it moves through the Earth's shadow. However, this eclipse event will only be visible in places where the moon is above the horizon—so not here in the USA.

80 years ago today—more than two years before V-E Day and Nazi Germany’s defeat—the Manhattan Project’s Military Policy Committee eliminated Germany as the target of the still unproven atomic bomb, selecting Japan’s fleet at Truk Lagoon as the best target.

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Choosing the first atomic target – May 5, 1943

According to Groves’s summary of the meeting:

Quote:“The point of use of the first bomb was discussed and the general view appeared to be that its best point of use would be on a Japanese fleet concentration in the Harbor of Truk [in the Pacific, north of New Guinea]. General Styer suggested Tokio but it was pointed out that the bomb should be used where, if it failed to go off, it would land in water of sufficient depth to prevent easy salvage. The Japanese were selected as they would not be so apt to secure knowledge from it as would the Germans.”
“Always” the target?

May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American in space, piloting the Freedom 7 Mercury Capsule in a 15-minute flight.

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May 5th - On National Astronaut Day, after being ignored by NASA, conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman told former astronaut Brian Harper he believed the moon was off course and heading for earth in MoonFall.

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We're inching ever closer to a new Office of War Information...another bureaucratic abyss.

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The Intercept

2023 Question of the Year™: "Is this real?"

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Are we in a Kangaroo market? Asking for a friend.

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NYC IS BACK!

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