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Just found this hysterically funny parody written at the peak of Holmes' popularity: "The Stolen Cigar Case" by Bret Harte
MASTER CRAFTED MEME
"Zosia, I want you to create a new, fully-realized game for Hitman: World of Assassination with exceptionally large maps and excellent missions. Include levels set in a mall, a sports stadium, an amusement park, and a convention center hosting a furry con, each with multiple comically stupid disguises. Incorporate new, fully-realized gameplay modes for both co-op and competitive multiplayer. Include cutscenes where Agent 47 has his shirt off."
I think it's very telling, how much they cared about keeping the anomalies calm
Oooooh this gave me a potentially scary thought:
What if they are so concerned about this because these few anomolies legitimately are extremely dangerous to the hive mind? ("Pluribus"? Is that the term people are using to refer to the collective hive mind? I haven't checked lol)
(EDIT: I mean beyond just making them have a seizure or whatever. They might be more dangerous than we realize - an existential threat to the whole hive mind)
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I hate self-promotion but:
You can learn more at my new, stupid little subreddit where I will be periodically documenting and writing about a variety of these profoundly offensive, highly-suppressed books
Agree.
The attempts at rehabilitating authoritarian communism / Marxist-Leninist ideologies (or whatever term you want to use for them) is disgusting and upsetting to me.
The picture painted by social media (maybe not super accurate lol) is that everyone online seems to act so goddamned extreme, on either the far right or left now.
I feel like the last person I know who enthusiastically supports boring-ass normal liberal, social democracy.
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If a work of fiction can “harm the brain,” then the same accusation could be made against nearly every powerful book, film, or painting ever produced.
Art is not anesthesia. It provokes, unsettles, and awakens parts of us we might prefer to leave dormant. The question is not whether an image or story can disturb the mind, but whether adults are to be trusted to willingly decide to encounter such disturbing things.
Every individual reacts differently to the same work. What might be corrosive to one person could be enlightening, cathartic, or even therapeutic to another. To impose a universal rule about what others must not see is to treat the public as children whose inner lives must be curated by some benevolent authority.
But who exactly decides what counts as “harm”? Governments once banned novels for inflaming women’s imaginations and outlawed jazz for “corrupting youth.” The vague appeal to mental purity has been the censor’s most reliable tool for centuries.
Nor is consuming a controversial work the same as endorsing its content. Scholars, psychologists, artists, and even critics may need to examine offensive material to understand it. Fiction allows one to explore impulses and horrors in symbolic form precisely so they need not be enacted in reality. That distance is what makes imagination safe - and also necessary.
Speech cannot and should not be forbidden merely because it might encourage antisocial thoughts or increase the risk that someone, somewhere, will act badly “at some indefinite future time.”
Freedom of expression is not a promise that everything we read will be good for us. It is the conviction that human beings, as moral agents, must be free to confront the full spectrum of ideas - sublime, grotesque, or obscene - and decide for themselves what to reject. A society that outlaws the unsettling in order to protect minds from harm ultimately produces nothing but obedient minds: clean, empty, and silent.
Three possibilities:
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child + knife
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something hidden in the prompt that didn't end up showing up in the final image
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almost all AI tools are incredibly strict now about any childlike characters, so they sometimes just censor them prematurely in order to be safe. no one wants to become the go-to AI resource for peds lol
Ew, gross. I'm not attracted to that shit myself. (If you're curious, I'm attracted to stuff like older dominant mommy-types and monsters lol)
But I just don't care what other people fantasize about. It harms no one, and I am obsessive about defending even the most repulsive and controversial forms of free speech in our society, because it so profoundly important.
Humankind was not made in a fixed mold.
Each of us develops with our own unique preferences and intimate desires. What shocks me may comfort someone else. And if no one is harmed by it, then there is nothing unethical about it.
I am so glad you asked!
Because I have been doing a lot of insane experimenting with different unorthodox prompts, including random pithy sayings I've saved in my commonplace book, and quotes from various sources.
If people end up sufficiently interested (unlikely lol) I'll definitely end up sharing more
I do not care if someone writes filthy smut on anything, whether it is traditional romance or a necrophilic orgy in a morgue.
It is fiction. It does not exist.
Thank god we do not live in glass houses, and whatever filthy, lurid scenarios that keep us entertained during sleepless nights or lethargic summer afternoons are nobody's business, and nobody is harmed by them.
Stable Diffusion
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Children live under the same laws and inherit the same future as the rest of us, yet they have no voice in shaping it. We claim to value equality, but we silence the very people who will live longest with the consequences of our choices today.
Lowering the voting age to single digits would not be absurd - it would be just. If democracy truly means the consent of the governed, then ALL those who are governed deserve representation.
Political maturity does not arrive on a birthday; it grows from engagement itself. A society that treats civic participation as the reward for adulthood, rather than its training ground, ensures that apathy takes root early and never leaves.
We do not deny adults the vote because they vote foolishly; we trust that participation itself refines judgment. The same faith should extend to the young. Democracy’s promise was never that only the wise would vote - merely that all who are affected should have a voice.
To deny anyone representation while compelling their obedience is undemocratic and unethical. Let children grow up as citizens, not as subjects - so that democracy, at last, may belong to everyone whose lives it commands.
Children live under the same laws and inherit the same future as the rest of us, yet they have no voice in shaping it. We claim to value equality, but we silence the very people who will live longest with the consequences of our choices today.
Lowering the voting age to single digits would not be absurd - it would be just. If democracy truly means the consent of the governed, then ALL those who are governed deserve representation.
Political maturity does not arrive on a birthday; it grows from engagement itself. A society that treats civic participation as the reward for adulthood, rather than its training ground, ensures that apathy takes root early and never leaves.
We do not deny adults the vote because they vote foolishly; we trust that participation itself refines judgment. The same faith should extend to the young. Democracy’s promise was never that only the wise would vote - merely that all who are affected should have a voice.
To deny anyone representation while compelling their obedience is undemocratic and unethical. Let children grow up as citizens, not as subjects - so that democracy, at last, may belong to everyone whose lives it commands.
Yeah, you're right actually!
I legitimately did take the time to look into this further after these comments and found that, despite Afghan-produced heroin being overwhelmingly dominant worldwide during the period, it remained rarer for it to cross over to the Americas. The US heroin supply during this period was indeed mostly produced in Mexico (and also some from South America).
The only potential caveat is that while the so-called "opioid epidemic" was largely an American phenomenon, it did ultimately end up leaking over into other regions as well, such as Europe.
Yeah, you're right actually!
I legitimately did take the time to look into this further after these comments and found that, despite Afghan-produced heroin being overwhelmingly dominant worldwide during the period, it remained rarer for it to cross over to the Americas. The US heroin supply during this period was indeed mostly produced in Mexico (and also some from South America).
The only potential caveat is that while the so-called "opioid epidemic" was largely an American phenomenon, it did ultimately end up leaking over into other regions such as Europe as well.
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At least they told you.
I strongly suspect, but have difficulty proving, that is is exceptionally common for terms to be filtered or blacklisted so that they simply do not appear in results.
I'm currently working on a project documenting very rare, controversial, highly-suppressed books and I mean a lot of people are baffled because they'll search for this stuff and get zero results in any of the major search engines.
Well, anyway, I wish there was more research into this. We have no idea what search terms are banned or why
Yes, you're right actually!
I legitimately did take the time to look into this further after these comments and found that, despite Afghan-produced heroin being overwhelmingly dominant worldwide during the period, it remained rarer for it to cross over to the Americas. The US heroin supply during this period was indeed mostly produced in Mexico (and also some from South America).
The only potential caveat is that while the so-called "opioid epidemic" was largely an American phenomenon, it did ultimately end up leaking over into other regions such as Europe as well.
So while, yeah, I'm admittedly wasn't super thrilled with your tone, I will totally admit that the distinction you made is an important one - so I actually do appreciate that.
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Afghanistan accounted for 87% of global opium production in both 2004 and 2005 (Source: econweb.ucsd.edu) -
Afghanistan was estimated to produce 92% of the world’s opium in 2006. (Source: Chicago Journals)
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Early 2000s: U.S. invasion; Afghan opium production skyrockets. -
Mid-2000s onward: U.S. prescription opioid abuse surges domestically, leading to widespread addiction. -
2010s: As prescription crackdowns begin, heroin use surges, with much of the heroin supply traced to Afghan poppy fields, and typcially processed through Pakistan, Iran, and the Balkans. -
Late 2010s–2020s: The synthetic fentanyl wave eclipses heroin, but by then, the U.S. heroin market itself had been sustained for over a decade by the Afghan boom.
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Heroin overdose deaths quadrupled from 3,036 deaths in 2010 to 12,989 deaths in 2015. (Source: CDC) -
Th CDC interpreted this rise together with an increase in supply (cheaper, purer heroin) and a population already exposed to opioids. (Source: CDC) -
After rising for years, nonmedical prescription-opioid abuse plateaued in 2011–2013. But at the same time, heroin use and heroin deaths increased. (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)
(Edit: Upon further research, I was surprised to learn that the others replying to me indeed are right! Despite Afghan-produced heroin being overwhelmingly dominant worldwide during the period, it remained rarer for it to cross over to the Americas. The US heroin supply during this period was indeed mostly produced in Mexico (and also some from South America). The only potential caveat is that while the so-called "opioid epidemic" was largely an American phenomenon, it did end up leaking over into other regions such as Europe as well.)
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Afghanistan's opium output was ~3,300 metric tonnes in the year 2000, but only ~185 metric tonnes in 2001. (Source: UK Parliament) -
The amount of land cultivated for opium was ~90,583 hectares in 1999, but only 7,606 hectares in 2001 (Source: UNODC)
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Afghanistan accounted for 87% of global opium production in both 2004 and 2005 (Source: econweb.ucsd.edu) -
Afghanistan was estimated to produce 92% of the world’s opium in 2006. (Source: Chicago Journals)
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Early 2000s: U.S. invasion; Afghan opium production skyrockets. -
Mid-2000s onward: U.S. prescription opioid abuse surges domestically, leading to widespread addiction. -
2010s: As prescription crackdowns begin, heroin use surges, with much of the heroin supply traced to Afghan poppy fields, and typcially processed through Pakistan, Iran, and the Balkans. -
Late 2010s–2020s: The synthetic fentanyl wave eclipses heroin, but by then, the U.S. heroin market itself had been sustained for over a decade by the Afghan boom.
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Heroin overdose deaths quadrupled from 3,036 deaths in 2010 to 12,989 deaths in 2015. (Source: CDC)~~ -
The CDC interpreted this rise together with an increase in supply (cheaper, purer heroin) and a population already exposed to opioids. (Source: CDC) -
After rising for years, nonmedical prescription-opioid abuse plateaued in 2011–2013. But at the same time, heroin use and heroin deaths increased. (Source: New England Journal of Medicine)
I'm really disgusted when people say shit like this.
That book was fiction and it's about adult characters.
You can think it's gross all you want, but wanting people to go to prison for it is repulsive and if you truly honestly cannot see how this sort of thing will end up opening the floodgates for people to throw extreme horror authors in prison than you might be the most naive human I've ever met in my life. Things like Dead Inside is a thousand times more graphically sexual and repulsive than I assume "Daddy's Little Toy" was - assume, because it was never actually released. You did not read it. No one did. It cannot be found anywhere. You are taking what others said and parroting it without a single thought of your own rattling around inside your skull.
