Tweets toward an Inquiry into Inquiry, in relation to Ideologies

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  All-Nude Tweets (Hacking Extraneous Content from Twitter Embeds) - Updated June 1, 2016 The Twitter default is for "cards" and "conversation" to display, but you can get rid of them either tweet by tweet or through a copy-paste-search-and-replace-re-copy-paste.

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  Getting to Better WordPress Twitter oEmbed June 28, 2016 1) The content of deleted tweets, if ever previously fetched and rendered, should remain "there" in an affected post's post meta, and 2) it should be quite possible to emulate the rendering process programmatically, whether for the sake of presenting deleted tweets in a way that marks them as such and also harmonizes aesthetically with…

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  Yearning for President Blog - OAG #9 March 2, 2017 The Tweet-storm, in the new era of President Tweet, remains a nostalgia-inducing afterimage of the blog and of the era of President Blog, but it may also portend a return or attempted return to coherent, accountable, and consequential civic discussion in a mass society, back from the Great Flood of clicks.

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  American Idealism, American Identity - Thread by @dhnexon, with Brief Comments March 17, 2017 "In fact, Trump is the most anti-exceptionalist POUTS since 1945."

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  The Deep State vs the Derp State (OAG #10) March 14, 2017 Can a responsible citizen refuse to take a side?

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  Theodicy of Trump - a Tweet-Drizzle (OAG #11) May 17, 2017 ...the one thing Trump & his voters had right was the political class - as continually re-confirmed in their pusillanimous responses to him.

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  Heckling Baby Hitler (Notes on a Twitter Discussion) April 18, 2016 Would-be proponents of a liberal society would cease being liberals at all at the moment they ceased their opposition to "shutting down" discussion, and to the precise extent they did so.

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  "The Kremlin Didn't Elect Trump - Obama Did": Outline of Implications of Russian Information Operations in the 2016 Elections November 26, 2016 Observers from center right to left, and including recognized security experts as well as pundits or political intellectuals, are now claiming that the Russian government under Vladimir Putin made war upon the United State of America; that the government and people of the United States, under the presidency of Barack Obama, failed to offer a…

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  Troll-Stomping and Other Sensible Things: #WordPress Plug-In Beta Test/Preview November 12, 2016 It occurred to me the other day or week that it wouldn't be hard to create a jQuery-enabled ignore button, and it wouldn't be too hard to add cookies to make the ignoring persistent, and it wouldn't be too hard to un-ignore, too. While I was at it, and feeling that enabling ignore was kind…

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  Si Vis Bellum, Part 2: Catastrophes December 13, 2016 America aims to be as much and as little interventionist and militarist as required in order to avoid ever becoming as catastrophically interventionist and militarist as she, in competition or cooperation with potentially many others, could be.

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  jQuery-Filling an Input Box in WordPress Admin July 15, 2016 ...on how I think a textbox should be filled in WordPress Admin... from simple anchor links... and when the content - in this instance long image links - is too long to be nicely contained... plus some little tricks and things I never noticed or noticed I'd noticed before...

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  On Emulating the TP vs Trump's GOP February 19, 2017 "Remember when everyone lectured Tea Party they should speak sweetly to woo liberals & so they toned down & then they won 2010? / Me neither."

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  Customizing the Intercom Launcher for WordPress March 25, 2018 Intercom is a relatively recently created cross-platform messaging tool, in use at around 25,000 sites, whose "Inbox" app or sub-app can work as a slick customer support/interaction alternative to older systems like ZenDesk. It will work out of the virtual box in WordPress, and some aspects of its appearance and other features can be managed…

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  Tweet-Drizzle on Merkel on New World Disorder (OAG #12) May 28, 2017 If the generation since the fall of the USSR has been a tale of the unfitness of the USA for leadership, then Trump is pure continuity.

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  If the Trump Roast Is Done, Give the Crucians Some Credit March 31, 2016 Like all of the rest of us, including Trump and his voters, Cruz and his team may have underestimated how long it would take for the tectonic shift in the sub-structure of the race to occur. They likely hoped to depend on nominally "evangelical" voters to carry them through the first part of the primary,…

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  Getting Right with Image Rights: WP Replace Unlicensed and Broken Images Plug-In June 17, 2016 A primary use for WP-RUBI will be at sites where administrators have decided to remove images that have been used either without permission or under lapsed or lapsing usage licenses: Proper employment will help to reduce or eliminate legal and actual "exposure" quickly and easily, without harming the site's search engine rankings and while preserving…

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  Ignoring in "Illdy": A CIB Adaptation to a "Bootstrapped" Theme (Case Study) January 23, 2017 If you're not able to perfect your theme yourself, or not willing to hire a designer, then being a perfectionist is unrealistic. Yet just getting good enough on first glance results when adding CIB to customized comment templates, even before fine-tuning, may require some more complicated work. For those intimidated by the prospect, here is…

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  Si Vis Bellum, Part 3: Always Again December 20, 2016 If members of the present younger generation in particular seem unable to articulate or comprehend the basis of a still operative policy consensus, they can hardly be faulted if their elders, even those running for the highest office in the land, can no longer do so either. We seem to be preparing and in effect…

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  Better Twitter Embeds 2: Stripping the Convo for the Sake of the Convo February 19, 2017 A few months ago, I noted a technique for stripping Twitter embeds of extraneous conversation, involving setting the tweet attribute "data-conversation" to "none." What I provided was more hack than add-on, and required a somewhat laborious process of copying the page source and search and replacing it. So, this morning, frustrated by yet another Twitter…

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  Exterminating the Non-Breaking Space Bug March 23, 2017 O layout mutilator! O blogger humiliator!

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  Comparative Page Loads with and without Image Errors July 14, 2016 This benefit of WP-RUBI is additional to the one of avoiding "the $8,000 mistake" of using unlicensed images, but for some sites will be much more important. 

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  Sign of the Sign October 26, 2016 Bridget O'Neil directs us to this signature, from a letter written in 2007 to the LA Times by this year's Republican Party nominee for the Presidency of the United States of America: O'Neil calls it "terrifying." She wonders what a handwriting expert would make of it. Hector Becerra, editor-writer at the Times, provides a possible clue: My guess is that…

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  The Operation American Greatness Gallery (In Progress) February 3, 2017 The unveiling today of some rather extraordinary magazine covers seems occasion enough to justify presentation of the OAG Gallery as it happens to stand at the moment. Since, during the course of normal business at this site, the images appear only in thumbnail size, as randomly selected from a set of images, it occurred to…

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  Nested Comments Unbound 1.0 Now Available from the WordPress Repo February 25, 2017 Enable open-ended maximum depth for nested comments, preserve comment-reply-links for all comments, keep the results readable.

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  An Alliance of Digital Artists (Art and Work in the Age of Instant Reproducibility) July 8, 2016 If the Digital Artists Alliance never amounts to more than a temporary reference point, the basis for a gesture of respect by some site operators toward an ideal, then that will be enough for me, but I invite anyone interested in exploring larger possibilities to join me.

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  Drilling a Hole in the Universe with WP_Query in a Shortcode September 1, 2016 Placing a post whose content would include a version of the post itself (containing a version of the post itself, and so on) produces a site-crashing "reset overload" (ERR_CONNECTION_RESET). It's easy to create the danger inadvertently, but also easy to prevent.

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  Getting Right with Image Rights: Workflow and Major Minor Upgrade June 27, 2016 I discovered many non-rights-cleared images that I now think may have detracted from the posts in some ways, even if they initially seemed to make them more attractive or striking.

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  Counter-Drizzle on the Hypothesis of the End of the American World-Historical Era (OAG #12c) May 31, 2017 The counterargument vs Panic of the Fall of the US Order can still be made either independently or, perhaps more difficult, complementarily.

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  (so: "the stationary state") (oag #13) July 20, 2017 (so: the stationary state, eroding entropically, searching for the crisis that may demand or allow for true "progress" - or mayn't)

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  Si Vis Bellum, Part 1: "Militarism" and "Interventionism" December 8, 2016 The un-clarity or confusion, or confusion of confusions, regarding the meaning of these two terms is typical of this historical moment, which in one sense can be thought to have simply befallen us, having never been willed into existence by anyone, but in another sense can be viewed as the predictable and desired product of…

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  On a Tweet-Drizzle on Trump's Honest Dishonesty September 25, 2016 We cannot say that this firstly and even only emotionally authentic form of conservatism is not a conservatism at all.

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  The Honorable 47 Rogues of the Palpatine Era May 6, 2017 Rogue One's fish-eyed admirals running the space battles were far more credible figures than the Fisher's sex dollish image clone - hallelujah!

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  A Correct Answer on the Pledge to Support March 25, 2016 "Donald Trump has provided ample justification for any of us to extricate ourselves from that commitment, which was entered upon as a matter of honor between individuals devoted not just to the name of the Republican Party, but to its principles. At this point, however, the question is no longer relevant. After all I have…

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  Aleppo, D.C. (OAG #7) December 15, 2016 The Fall of Aleppo and the virtual Fall of Washington are linked not just by the lead sponsors or perpetrators of such unimaginable or until recently unimaginable crimes, but by a long and apparently far from finished history of bipartisan and cooperative failures and omissions that, removed from context, provide illimitable opportunity for internecine partisan…

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  Commenter Ignore Button 0.99 December 21, 2016 Now in "Late Beta" - and, for a limited time, I'll offer free styling, installation, and configuration to anyone who wants to try it out!

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  Mattis: Not Ike, but the Right Shape March 27, 2016 It is perfectly normal, and beyond that it is natural and altogether archetypical, for human communities in times of crisis to look for and seek to rally behind a commanding figure. The American electoral process is in many ways already the institutionalization of crisis even in the normal course of events, and this year, with…

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  Citizen Trump's Path of Least Resistance to a Classy Profitable Exit April 1, 2016 Should Trump, facing unfavorable and deteriorating political prospects, seek to humiliate himself leading a fractured Republican Party to an "epic" defeat in November? Should he prefer to "do all he could to destroy Cruz and the GOP" - turning himself into a hated loser and maker of losers? How would either alternative profit him -…

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  Output-Buffering and Extensible WordPress Plug-Ins May 21, 2016 Contrary to my tentative conclusions of a month ago, I now understand at least one good reason to use output-buffering while writing WordPress code. Indeed, I now anticipate using the tool frequently.

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  Postscript to future historians from Xmas 2016 (OAG #8) December 25, 2016 We would be compelled to conclude that something must have been (and very likely remains) profoundly wrong with a political culture or political media - of which Matthew Yglesias and Vox are, of course, typical parts - that could be dominated by an issue to be judged intrinsically trivial, and dominated to the point of…

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  German Trust in America - the Trend (#OAG 12b) May 31, 2017 There has been some attempted pushback - including in the comments here - on the notion that Donald Trump has uniquely damaged German-American relations, particularly in relation to the views of the German public - for example: Merkel chose a Munich beer hall as her venue to speak out and she was on the campaign…

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  Devoted and Selfless Consecration June 30, 2016 The sacred essence of the American state is not a common topic of discussion, but the state or nation or country itself, or we ourselves, on behalf of itself or on behalf of ourselves, deems or deem it the proper topic in relation to the final questions.

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  Gutenberg: The Invention of the Printing Press, the Destruction of WordPress July 7, 2017 Or at least that's what some people seem to think about the new "page-builder" style editor with which WordPress.org seems to be planning to replace the current post editor...

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  On My Grand Strategy on Grand Strategy (Interim Book Report or Tour of a Tour of Tours of Tours) May 7, 2016 I am seeking a grand strategic overview of the grand strategic field such as it is, in clear but not simplistic statements susceptible to critical consideration and re-consideration - not total occupation of the literature and victory in detail down to every last sty and hollow. All the same, if I am reluctant to add…

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  Jacket X July 8, 2017 "The world of things calls for art, in which intellectual accession to being moves into enjoyment, in which the Infinity of the idea is idolized in the finite, but sufficient, image." -- Emmanuel Levinas

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  For the Fourth: Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball, Booze, and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism) July 4, 2017 It welcomed the tests of time/ Like an eternal friend,/ Our country is blessed,/ Our country is such!

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  Operation American Greatness November 4, 2016 Ironic how Trump apologists, especially certain types of "American Conservative" paleo-cons, self-styled republican constitutionalists, and diverse fellow travelers all the way extending to everyday "Deplorables" drunkenly hurling foul epithets at campaign reporters, have adopted a main strategic rationale of the despised Neocons and Globalists.

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  Is This Solution for Caches vs Cookies Going to Get Me in Trouble? November 30, 2016 I added the line to my jQuery script, and, *voila!*, WPSC, W3 Total Cache, and Comet Cache are all acting like I want them to. After I use the script, and reload, I get fresh pages.

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  The Scholar's Stage: You Do Not Have the People March 3, 2018 [T]he Korea issue is but an extreme expression of a tendency that blights the entire field. We are uncomfortable with democratic accountability, unwilling to subject ourselves to public debate, and uninterested in the constraints public opinion and popular politics place on the policies we craft. This complacency is not excusable. It is not sustainable. We…

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  All the News that's Fit to Kill (OAG #8) February 22, 2017 The Post appears to be promising to narrate the death of democracy - or, if unconsciously, to be revealing an intention to embody it.

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  While 2017 happens... June 4, 2017 If not the very best picture of 2017 so far, the one below, which has been sweeping through Twitter, has to be in the running at least for best and most sympatico - "this man is all of us just living our lives while 2017 happens lol!" - amateur photo: According to the photo caption…

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