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unreal truths One of the tactics of propagandists, you know… people and organizations bent on twisting your mind and opinion to their will, is to dehumanize the alternate opinion to diminish contrary viewpoints. This happens on all sides, but I will tell you about one specific example that is dividing our province even today. A few years […]

From the Archives: unreal truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/unreal-truths/

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informational attack In my heart  I know that we have already lost a war. For decades following the Second World War and as nuclear armament escalated across a global stalemate we were all told that the next big war would be nuclear. Bombs would fall from the sky, cities would be razed by fire, a dystopian dark […]

From the Archives: informational attack - http://magpirate.ca/2026/informational-attack/

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team libtard In the past couple months and on a couple of stress-inducing occasions my personal account, the one where I use my real name and am connected to friends and colleagues, has gone modestly viral. The cycle always goes something like this: I post an observation. Not opinion. Not speculation. Not interpretation. Just a note about […]

From the Archives: team libtard - http://magpirate.ca/2026/team-libtard/

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misguided truths How does one fight misinformation and disinformation? It’s not an easy task. The people who fall for it seem to be shielded from reality by layers upon layers of even more falsehoods. Smart, if terrible, people are actively using mistruths to gain money and power. The purveyors of those falsehoods devalue the truth by twisting […]

From the Archives: misguided truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/misguided-truths/

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take to the seas Freedom of speech is dead. Long live freedom of speech. From the AI slop to the foreign propagandists all of it immersed in an ocean of corporatization of social media, to a media at best lazy and defaulting to artificially balancing imbalanced equations, is there nowhere left for real people to turn for truth? I […]

From the Archives: take to the seas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/take-to-the-seas/

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harder truths A lot of people are in a bit of phase of blaming AI for all the misinformation swirling around out there, and certainly it deserves to be raked across the coals for the problem, too. But the problem of liars lying is hardly a new one. Have you ever stopped to wonder why lies work […]

From the Archives: harder truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/harder-truths/

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click incentive Do you ever scroll through social media and see a post that has you just itching to reply? You know the kind. Sometimes it’s asking an inane question with an obvious answer, or occasionally someone will say something just so incredibly wrong that you scratch your head immediately get the urge to correct them. Do […]

From the Archives: click incentive - http://magpirate.ca/2026/click-incentive/

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comfortably wrong Breaking is easier than building. Following is easier than leading. Believing is easier than understanding. It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made.  It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, […]

From the Archives: comfortably wrong - http://magpirate.ca/2026/comfortably-wrong/

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harder truths A lot of people are in a bit of phase of blaming AI for all the misinformation swirling around out there, and certainly it deserves to be raked across the coals for the problem, too. But the problem of liars lying is hardly a new one. Have you ever stopped to wonder why lies work […]

From the Archives: harder truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/harder-truths/

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informational attack In my heart  I know that we have already lost a war. For decades following the Second World War and as nuclear armament escalated across a global stalemate we were all told that the next big war would be nuclear. Bombs would fall from the sky, cities would be razed by fire, a dystopian dark […]

From the Archives: informational attack - http://magpirate.ca/2026/informational-attack/

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cheap as life Life has become cheap. Blame it on late-stage capitalism. Blame it on right wing dehumanization of those who disagree. Blame it on the long arc of the waning social contract fading into cliche.  The end game seems muddy, but there is a sinister point to the erosion of our worth as human beings: the fraying […]

From the Archives: cheap as life - http://magpirate.ca/2026/cheap-as-life/

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comfortably wrong Breaking is easier than building. Following is easier than leading. Believing is easier than understanding. It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made.  It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, […]

From the Archives: comfortably wrong - http://magpirate.ca/2026/comfortably-wrong/

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harder truths A lot of people are in a bit of phase of blaming AI for all the misinformation swirling around out there, and certainly it deserves to be raked across the coals for the problem, too. But the problem of liars lying is hardly a new one. Have you ever stopped to wonder why lies work […]

From the Archives: harder truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/harder-truths/

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fight club Do you remember the movie Fight Club?  Fight Club was and still is one of my favs. It was a late-90s nihilism flick where underground groups of men disaffected by modern society punched each other senseless and congealed into an anarchist gang plotting the overthrow their society. I always liked it because it had a […]

From the Archives: fight club - http://magpirate.ca/2026/fight-club/

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team libtard In the past couple months and on a couple of stress-inducing occasions my personal account, the one where I use my real name and am connected to friends and colleagues, has gone modestly viral. The cycle always goes something like this: I post an observation. Not opinion. Not speculation. Not interpretation. Just a note about […]

From the Archives: team libtard - http://magpirate.ca/2026/team-libtard/

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click incentive Do you ever scroll through social media and see a post that has you just itching to reply? You know the kind. Sometimes it’s asking an inane question with an obvious answer, or occasionally someone will say something just so incredibly wrong that you scratch your head immediately get the urge to correct them. Do […]

From the Archives: click incentive - http://magpirate.ca/2026/click-incentive/

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not every dark deed There is a clever trick used by people doing dark deeds? Have you noticed? It’s not complicated. In fact it’s just about the simplest thing to do when you have a huge audience and a big microphone.  When you have broken a rule, committed a crime, or hurt someone physically, mentally or otherwise, then is […]

From the Archives: not every dark deed - http://magpirate.ca/2026/not-every-dark-deed/

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leader worship As part of my personal religious deconstruction I have come to better understand the tangled layers of authority under which I was trapped.   Authority is not a trivial thing in modern christianity, at least as I understand it. It is the foundational basis of almost everything, in fact. I’m not here to debate “honour […]

From the Archives: leader worship - http://magpirate.ca/2026/leader-worship/

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original ideas The internet is one giant game of broken telephone. I remember growing up in the 1980s. Every night the news was on the television in our house. There wasn’t a set channel or a preferred broadcaster, at least not that I can recall, but rather at dinner time each night and later at ten in […]

From the Archives: original ideas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/original-ideas/

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harder truths A lot of people are in a bit of phase of blaming AI for all the misinformation swirling around out there, and certainly it deserves to be raked across the coals for the problem, too. But the problem of liars lying is hardly a new one. Have you ever stopped to wonder why lies work […]

From the Archives: harder truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/harder-truths/

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mainlining propoganda I recently took a mini-vacation to the mountains here in Alberta and I spent a couple nights in a hotel near the ski hills.  All sorts of local folks do this… and then spend their evenings chilling in front of the television with a cozy drink in hand. The last guy who had my room […]

From the Archives: mainlining propoganda - http://magpirate.ca/2026/mainlining-propoganda/

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original ideas The internet is one giant game of broken telephone. I remember growing up in the 1980s. Every night the news was on the television in our house. There wasn’t a set channel or a preferred broadcaster, at least not that I can recall, but rather at dinner time each night and later at ten in […]

From the Archives: original ideas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/original-ideas/

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unreal truths One of the tactics of propagandists, you know… people and organizations bent on twisting your mind and opinion to their will, is to dehumanize the alternate opinion to diminish contrary viewpoints. This happens on all sides, but I will tell you about one specific example that is dividing our province even today. A few years […]

From the Archives: unreal truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/unreal-truths/

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harder truths A lot of people are in a bit of phase of blaming AI for all the misinformation swirling around out there, and certainly it deserves to be raked across the coals for the problem, too. But the problem of liars lying is hardly a new one. Have you ever stopped to wonder why lies work […]

From the Archives: harder truths - http://magpirate.ca/2026/harder-truths/

1 week ago 0 0 0 0
leader worship As part of my personal religious deconstruction I have come to better understand the tangled layers of authority under which I was trapped.   Authority is not a trivial thing in modern christianity, at least as I understand it. It is the foundational basis of almost everything, in fact. I’m not here to debate “honour […]

From the Archives: leader worship - http://magpirate.ca/2026/leader-worship/

2 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
click incentive Do you ever scroll through social media and see a post that has you just itching to reply? You know the kind. Sometimes it’s asking an inane question with an obvious answer, or occasionally someone will say something just so incredibly wrong that you scratch your head immediately get the urge to correct them. Do […]

From the Archives: click incentive - http://magpirate.ca/2026/click-incentive/

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take to the seas Freedom of speech is dead. Long live freedom of speech. From the AI slop to the foreign propagandists all of it immersed in an ocean of corporatization of social media, to a media at best lazy and defaulting to artificially balancing imbalanced equations, is there nowhere left for real people to turn for truth? I […]

From the Archives: take to the seas - http://magpirate.ca/2026/take-to-the-seas/

2 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
comfortably wrong Breaking is easier than building. Following is easier than leading. Believing is easier than understanding. It’s not that we want to call anyone lazy, but there are certain leanings that are definitely the easier path, and the more comfortable choice to be made.  It’s easy to shout and stomp your feet that something isn’t working, […]

From the Archives: comfortably wrong - http://magpirate.ca/2026/comfortably-wrong/

2 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
team libtard In the past couple months and on a couple of stress-inducing occasions my personal account, the one where I use my real name and am connected to friends and colleagues, has gone modestly viral. The cycle always goes something like this: I post an observation. Not opinion. Not speculation. Not interpretation. Just a note about […]

From the Archives: team libtard - http://magpirate.ca/2026/team-libtard/

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