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rampartd

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1. "the invisible hand of the algorithm"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Sun Nov 23, 2025, 10:04 PM

8 hrs ago

how did they know to call it "al gore ism" long before al gore invented the interne?

i guess the same way "trumped up charges" existed long before trump began to trump up charges.

or "soundings" measured the depth of a river before anyone thought to use sound to measure depth.

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