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    <title>Trusting Your Real Self</title>
    <description>Trusting Your Real Self is the way to achieving legitimate success.
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    <title>Photo gallery removed.</title>
    <description>It was only used in seo testing.
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    <title>Penses added: the Sellout Generations</title>
    <description>Music is a model.
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    <title>AI Prompt Injection Threat for SEO Publishers</title>
    <description>As always, the best SEO practitioners are aware of threats and tactics that almost no one else considers, except security researchers and big tech leadership. Why is that?
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    <title>  SEO Wisdom and the OG SEOs</title>
    <description>Listening to old SEO people is only helpful if you have some seo wisdom, so you can see & hear the truth within their comments. You gain wisdom by doing.
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    <title>  SEO Wisdom and the OG SEOs</title>
    <description>Listening to old SEO people is only helpful if you have some seo wisdom, so you can see & hear the truth within their comments. You gain wisdom by doing.
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    <title>Blogs, Intellectual Freedom, and Volunteering for Centralized Control</title>
    <description>As thinkers abandoned blogging and adopted "social media", they willingly handed big tech and governments control over their intellectual freedom.
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    <title>Leadership and the Void : SEO in the Age of the Decline of Google</title>
    <description>As time passes, I start to understand the WHY behind the emerging SEO opportunities...
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    <title>More Microbloggin in Penses - Might have to extend the RSS?</title>
    <description>RSS has the posts but not the thoughts.. but as I defer to microblogging in Penses, I think the RSS should follow that. Does anyone monitor this site's RSS? Does that matter, LOL.
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    <title>"Penses" section added - "thoughts" in the style of tradition.</title>
    <description>"Penses" section added - "thoughts" in the style of traditional contemporary literature. I note that these do NOT get recorded in RSS as updates, sorry (not sorry).
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    <title>Every Page is the Opinion Page Now</title>
    <description>Some thoughts on the nonsense we see published today, and how it is our responsibility to recognize how people like Eric Schmidt are horrid characters offering bad advice.
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    <title>A New Year</title>
    <description>Happy New Year! Minor edits and corrections (to typos and such) around the web page, including the asides.
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    <title>Fraternity and Character</title>
    <description>Started but not published... pending decison to publish.
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      Tue, 20 Oct 2023 06:52:44 -0400
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    <title>Penses.</title>
    <description>One might see at this point how excessive exercise of controls leads to increased opportunity. One might also notice how the value of an opportunity increasingly tracks the controls (on money supply, labor, etc) instead of market conditions
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    <title>Broken.</title>
    <description>If there's one thing that is undeniable truth... oops wait a sec....
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    <title>Republished 2014 Essay on Dysphoria</title>
    <description>We, my fellow Americans, are living in a dysphoria : a state of difficult-to-bear angst, or psychological discomfort. And it is effecting everything we do...
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    <title>Asides, Mentions, and Ancillary have been updated</title>
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    <title>Dumb Smart People(?)</title>
    <description>If you're very confident it is NOT about you, odds are about split: 50% chance you are correct (congratulations, you are an exception!) and 50% chance you may be eligible for a Dunning-Kruger award.
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    <title>The Current SEO Opportunity: Artificial Intelligence</title>
    <description>...The system labeled "AI" has now started to fill the role of artificial intelligence that apparently was desperately needed by our society, as was recognized by those early pioneers back in 1988...AI is real... Artificial Intelligence is now actual, trusted intelligence being granted authority by the populace...God help us.
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    <title>A Note on Chinese Persuasion, plus Musing on Run Silent, Run Deep with Google SEO</title>
    <description>... difference this time is that the gold will flow to those who can communicate their undying love of their devotions, in words, pictures, and with visual interfaces, while cheerfully spreading the word of the glory of their labors...
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    <title>With So Much Opportunity, Why Do You (Still) Lie?
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    <description>...the real question is, why do you, marketer/seo, lie so much? The old excused of "need to make a living" no longer applies. Nearly anyone with knowledge of web mechanics and seo basics can earn a living by simply "putting up a shingle", offering services...
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    <title>On Humility and Your Upcoming Failure(s)</title>
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      Live blogging some thoughts on humility and the expressed modern ambitions of the underachieving, tech-enabled worker class.
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    <title>Google Today - Pretty Sad, Actually?</title>
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      Continuing the exploration of Google's "perverted will" and its impact on the Google search results, we look at a 27 year old journal article ranking #1, and how absurd it is in that spot.
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      Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:47:44 -0400
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    <title>Archive: The Dawn of the Disinformation Age (2019)</title>
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      Originally published in 2019, a brief note about the (now more obvious) shift of web publishing from information to disinformation, following the money.
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      Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:00:01 -0400
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