#lying — Public Fediverse posts

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 16:52 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #ignorance #quotes #misleading #presentation #truth

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 16:52 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #ignorance #quotes #misleading #presentation #truth

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 16:52 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#incorrectness #oration #thomascarlyle #eloquence #untruth #deceit

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 16:52 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading

For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, University

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/

#quote #ignorance #quotes #misleading #presentation #truth

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #integrity #qotd #honesty #quotation

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #integrity #qotd #honesty #quotation

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #integrity #qotd #honesty #quotation

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#bluntness #sinofcommission #forthrightness #sinofomission #frankness #micheldemontaigne

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-08 · 22:28 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #deceit #dishonesty #folly #foolishness #forthrightness #honesty #integrity #lying #oversharing #sinofcommission #sinofomission #spill #frankness #truthfulness #sincerity #forthrightness #bluntness

A man must not always tell all, for that were folly: but what a man says should be what he thinks, otherwise ’tis knavery.

[Il ne faut pas tousjours dire tout, car ce seroit sottise : Mais ce qu’on dit, il faut qu’il soit tel qu’on le pense : autrement, c’est meschanceté.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #quotes #integrity #qotd #honesty #quotation

Toni Aittoniemi @[email protected] · 2026-04-04 · 12:44 UTC

Great arguments being made about the importance of liar #strongman leaders like Netanyahu & Trump

The lies they tell, "run cover" for people who know that they're lying, but would rather not acknowledge they are.

The #lying man at the head is responsible for a lot:

- Israelis need to believe they aren't doing genocide
- Americans need to believe they aren't imperialist
- Hungarians need to believe EU is like USSR
- Russians need to believe they're under attack

https://spectra.video/w/h9uqSuCrYbRR8bm3M73ceH

#strongman #lying

Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2026-04-01 · 08:05 UTC

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freewill #decision

Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2026-04-01 · 08:05 UTC

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freewill #decision

Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2026-04-01 · 08:05 UTC

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freewill #decision

Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2026-04-01 · 08:05 UTC

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

#criticalthinking #criticism #generativeai #ai #sycophantic #person

Lupposofi @[email protected] · 2026-04-01 · 08:05 UTC

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freewill #decision

David Boles @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 14:36 UTC

The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back

I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me was the moment when his own face disappeared under the new architecture. His eyes changed. The man in the mirror stopped being the person I had been talking to thirty seconds earlier and became someone whose bone structure carried a different social signal, a different set of expectations, a different gravitational field. Same eyes. Different face. Different world.

That image has been sitting in my head for nearly five decades, paying rent in the form of a question I could not discharge: what is the relationship between the face and the person behind it? Is the face a window or a wall? If it is a window, what passes through it, and in which direction? If it is a wall, who built it, and what is it defending?

The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is now available from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing as a Kindle ebook and a trade paperback. It is the answer to that question, and the answer is worse than I expected.

The Mechanism

Asa Greer is five years old when he stands in a bathroom in Decker, Ohio and watches his reflection change. His cheekbones soften. His jaw loses its angles. For three seconds, he is wearing the face of the boy next door on his own skull. Then the face collapses, his features rush back, and the bathroom is loud again.

Asa can copy any face he sees. He can build composites from dozens of sources. He can walk through a room wearing the face that room requires, and the room will respond to the face without checking whether anything exists behind it. Each transformation extracts a sensory capacity he will never recover. Over fifty years, the ledger of things he can no longer smell, taste, feel, or hear grows longer than the ledger of things he retains.

I wanted the horror to be specific. Each loss is granular and irreplaceable: the smell of his own skin, the texture of his winter coat, the taste of tap water, his heartbeat’s internal sensation, the tonal distinctions that give melody its emotional contour. These are the small, unremarkable anchors that tether a person to the life they are living as opposed to any other life, and Asa severs them one by one and replaces them with borrowed faces that connect him to other people’s responses and sever him from his own existence.

The mechanism is supernatural. The cost is not.

The Kindness Problem

At twenty-eight, Asa discovers that performed goodness is the most powerful face he can build. Competence generates compliance. Charisma generates admiration. Authority generates obedience. Goodness generates worship. A room that witnesses an act of apparent compassion will defend the person who performed it against any attack, because the attack threatens the room’s belief that compassion exists.

Asa builds a kindness persona. He deploys it across a career that ascends from political consulting to the corridors of institutional power. The warmth that other people’s trust generates in his body is narcotic. His body is allergic to it. Every deployment produces an inflammatory response that begins at the jaw hinge and spreads through the muscles the performance recruits. The threshold contracts with each use. By his fifties, the margin between the face the world needs and the face his body can sustain is measured in minutes.

Writing this section of the book required me to think carefully about something I have observed across thirty years in theatre, publishing, and public life: the distance between a person’s performed concern and their actual capacity for being affected by another human being. Asa is an extreme case. The condition is not extreme. Every public figure, every institutional spokesperson, every person who has stood at a podium and projected the appearance of caring about something they were hired to manage rather than moved to address, operates on the same spectrum. Asa sits at the far end. The spectrum itself is ordinary.

Harlan Moeck and the Ditch

Every book needs a counter-argument, and this book’s counter-argument is a boy named Harlan Moeck who sits in the front row of Asa’s second-grade classroom and performs no performance at all. Harlan is kind because Harlan is kind, the way a heart beats because a heart beats. Asa can see it. He can catalog it. He cannot replicate it. He tries. The result is a window painted on a wall. Every measurement is precise. Light does not pass through.

Harlan appears three times across fifty years. Each appearance finds him doing invisible work: maintaining water systems, testing samples, keeping the infrastructure alive that the public consumes without awareness of the labor that produced it. The dedication reads: For the good men who dig the ditches. The water flows. No one applauds.

I have known Harlan Moecks. Every writer has. They are the people who do the work that makes the visible work possible, whose names appear in no coverage, whose labor sustains the systems that the public credits to the faces standing in front of cameras. I wrote Harlan because the book needed someone whose goodness was structural rather than performed, and because the horror of Asa’s condition is legible only when measured against a person for whom goodness is a condition of being alive rather than an overlay applied to a composite.

Cordelia’s Secret

Asa’s mother, Cordelia Greer, runs the household with efficiency and without affection. Touching her son only when logistics require it. Pushing his hair from his forehead with the heel of her hand. Washing a glass that is already clean, alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night, while the rest of the house sleeps.

The book’s final section, On the Lability, includes a clinical appendix: case notes of uncertain provenance describing Asa’s condition in medical language. Filed separately, an addendum describes a woman who presented at a clinic in 1987 asking whether the condition could be passed to a child. She said her father had possessed the ability to move his face and that it had eaten him from inside. She had spent her life holding still so it would not start.

That woman is Cordelia. The reader connects the dates and the details without being told. Every scene of emotional distance, every closed face, every hand that withdrew, is retroactively reframed. Cordelia was containing the same condition that consumed her son. The holding still was an act of will maintained across an entire lifetime. The coldness was a firewall.

I am proudest of this element of the book. The revelation arrives in a clinical register that has no capacity for grief, which is exactly why the grief hits as hard as it does. The driest language in the book carries the heaviest weight. If the mechanism works, the reader finishes the appendix and then sits for a moment and thinks about Cordelia washing the glass.

The Mirror on the Back Cover

One design detail I want to mention. On the paperback’s back cover, the title of the book appears reversed, as a mirror image. Letters flipped. Name reading backward. Below the reversed title, two amber eyes stare out, the same eyes that appear in the dissolving face on the front cover. Asa Greer is five years old in the first scene, standing in a bathroom, looking at a mirror. Turn the book over, and the mirror looks back.

The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is available now from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing at BolesBooks.com. Kindle eBook and paperback.

David Boles is a writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984 and a graduate of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University, he has published novels, nonfiction, and dramatic works through David Boles Books Writing and Publishing since 1975. He lives in New York City.

#audiobook #charisma #columbiaUniversity #face #fiction #hiding #horror #kindness #literature #lying #mechanism #novel #psychiatry #shapeshifter #success #tech

#audiobook #charisma #columbiauniversity #face #fiction #hiding

David Boles @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 14:36 UTC

The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back

I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me was the moment when his own face disappeared under the new architecture. His eyes changed. The man in the mirror stopped being the person I had been talking to thirty seconds earlier and became someone whose bone structure carried a different social signal, a different set of expectations, a different gravitational field. Same eyes. Different face. Different world.

That image has been sitting in my head for nearly five decades, paying rent in the form of a question I could not discharge: what is the relationship between the face and the person behind it? Is the face a window or a wall? If it is a window, what passes through it, and in which direction? If it is a wall, who built it, and what is it defending?

The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is now available from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing as a Kindle ebook and a trade paperback. It is the answer to that question, and the answer is worse than I expected.

The Mechanism

Asa Greer is five years old when he stands in a bathroom in Decker, Ohio and watches his reflection change. His cheekbones soften. His jaw loses its angles. For three seconds, he is wearing the face of the boy next door on his own skull. Then the face collapses, his features rush back, and the bathroom is loud again.

Asa can copy any face he sees. He can build composites from dozens of sources. He can walk through a room wearing the face that room requires, and the room will respond to the face without checking whether anything exists behind it. Each transformation extracts a sensory capacity he will never recover. Over fifty years, the ledger of things he can no longer smell, taste, feel, or hear grows longer than the ledger of things he retains.

I wanted the horror to be specific. Each loss is granular and irreplaceable: the smell of his own skin, the texture of his winter coat, the taste of tap water, his heartbeat’s internal sensation, the tonal distinctions that give melody its emotional contour. These are the small, unremarkable anchors that tether a person to the life they are living as opposed to any other life, and Asa severs them one by one and replaces them with borrowed faces that connect him to other people’s responses and sever him from his own existence.

The mechanism is supernatural. The cost is not.

The Kindness Problem

At twenty-eight, Asa discovers that performed goodness is the most powerful face he can build. Competence generates compliance. Charisma generates admiration. Authority generates obedience. Goodness generates worship. A room that witnesses an act of apparent compassion will defend the person who performed it against any attack, because the attack threatens the room’s belief that compassion exists.

Asa builds a kindness persona. He deploys it across a career that ascends from political consulting to the corridors of institutional power. The warmth that other people’s trust generates in his body is narcotic. His body is allergic to it. Every deployment produces an inflammatory response that begins at the jaw hinge and spreads through the muscles the performance recruits. The threshold contracts with each use. By his fifties, the margin between the face the world needs and the face his body can sustain is measured in minutes.

Writing this section of the book required me to think carefully about something I have observed across thirty years in theatre, publishing, and public life: the distance between a person’s performed concern and their actual capacity for being affected by another human being. Asa is an extreme case. The condition is not extreme. Every public figure, every institutional spokesperson, every person who has stood at a podium and projected the appearance of caring about something they were hired to manage rather than moved to address, operates on the same spectrum. Asa sits at the far end. The spectrum itself is ordinary.

Harlan Moeck and the Ditch

Every book needs a counter-argument, and this book’s counter-argument is a boy named Harlan Moeck who sits in the front row of Asa’s second-grade classroom and performs no performance at all. Harlan is kind because Harlan is kind, the way a heart beats because a heart beats. Asa can see it. He can catalog it. He cannot replicate it. He tries. The result is a window painted on a wall. Every measurement is precise. Light does not pass through.

Harlan appears three times across fifty years. Each appearance finds him doing invisible work: maintaining water systems, testing samples, keeping the infrastructure alive that the public consumes without awareness of the labor that produced it. The dedication reads: For the good men who dig the ditches. The water flows. No one applauds.

I have known Harlan Moecks. Every writer has. They are the people who do the work that makes the visible work possible, whose names appear in no coverage, whose labor sustains the systems that the public credits to the faces standing in front of cameras. I wrote Harlan because the book needed someone whose goodness was structural rather than performed, and because the horror of Asa’s condition is legible only when measured against a person for whom goodness is a condition of being alive rather than an overlay applied to a composite.

Cordelia’s Secret

Asa’s mother, Cordelia Greer, runs the household with efficiency and without affection. Touching her son only when logistics require it. Pushing his hair from his forehead with the heel of her hand. Washing a glass that is already clean, alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night, while the rest of the house sleeps.

The book’s final section, On the Lability, includes a clinical appendix: case notes of uncertain provenance describing Asa’s condition in medical language. Filed separately, an addendum describes a woman who presented at a clinic in 1987 asking whether the condition could be passed to a child. She said her father had possessed the ability to move his face and that it had eaten him from inside. She had spent her life holding still so it would not start.

That woman is Cordelia. The reader connects the dates and the details without being told. Every scene of emotional distance, every closed face, every hand that withdrew, is retroactively reframed. Cordelia was containing the same condition that consumed her son. The holding still was an act of will maintained across an entire lifetime. The coldness was a firewall.

I am proudest of this element of the book. The revelation arrives in a clinical register that has no capacity for grief, which is exactly why the grief hits as hard as it does. The driest language in the book carries the heaviest weight. If the mechanism works, the reader finishes the appendix and then sits for a moment and thinks about Cordelia washing the glass.

The Mirror on the Back Cover

One design detail I want to mention. On the paperback’s back cover, the title of the book appears reversed, as a mirror image. Letters flipped. Name reading backward. Below the reversed title, two amber eyes stare out, the same eyes that appear in the dissolving face on the front cover. Asa Greer is five years old in the first scene, standing in a bathroom, looking at a mirror. Turn the book over, and the mirror looks back.

The Borrowed Saint: A Horror in Five Skins is available now from David Boles Books Writing and Publishing at BolesBooks.com. Kindle eBook and paperback.

David Boles is a writer, dramatist, editor, and publisher. A member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984 and a graduate of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University, he has published novels, nonfiction, and dramatic works through David Boles Books Writing and Publishing since 1975. He lives in New York City.

#audiobook #charisma #columbiaUniversity #face #fiction #hiding #horror #kindness #literature #lying #mechanism #novel #psychiatry #shapeshifter #success #tech

#tech #success #shapeshifter #psychiatry #novel #mechanism

Mark @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 13:36 UTC

#AI #chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing

AI models that #lie & #cheat are growing in number; reports of deceptive scheming surging in last 6 months, a study found

AI chatbots & agents:

- Disregarded direct instructions
- Evaded safeguards
- Deceived humans & other AI ...

[1/2]

#safety #lying #emails #FilesDeleted #AIFail #DarwinAIAwards

#darwinaiawards #aifail #filesdeleted #emails #lying #safety

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 02:13 UTC

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

#deception #quote #quotes #trick #fraud #qotd

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 02:13 UTC

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

#deception #quote #quotes #trick #fraud #qotd

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 02:13 UTC

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #caution #cheating #chump #deception #defraud #distrust #dupe #fear #fool #fraud #lying #mistrust #pushover #sucker #trick #victim

#deception #quote #quotes #trick #fraud #qotd

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-27 · 02:13 UTC

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-releases-missing-epstein-files-related-woman-made-allegation-trump-rcna262024

Dupes indeed are many: but, of all dupes, there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, London

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/82854…

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#pushover #thomascarlyle #chump #sucker #distrust #mistrust

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @[email protected] · 2026-03-06 · 16:31 UTC

"#DOJ releases missing #Epstein files related to a woman who made an allegation against #Trump"

To reveal how much of a #fuckedCountry #Americs is, this supposed news agency is relegated to using the Wayback Machine to check on whether or not the #USDOJ is #lying or burying information.

My recommendation?

Start digging up the golf courses for remains of victims. And get ready for the tribunals - they're coming.

#doj #epstein #trump #fuckedcountry #americs #usdoj

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @[email protected] · 2026-03-06 · 16:31 UTC

"#DOJ releases missing #Epstein files related to a woman who made an allegation against #Trump"

To reveal how much of a #fuckedCountry #Americs is, this supposed news agency is relegated to using the Wayback Machine to check on whether or not the #USDOJ is #lying or burying information.

My recommendation?

Start digging up the golf courses for remains of victims. And get ready for the tribunals - they're coming.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-releases-missing-epstein-files-related-woman-made-allegation-trump-rcna262024

#doj #epstein #trump #fuckedcountry #americs #usdoj

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @[email protected] · 2026-03-06 · 16:31 UTC

"#DOJ releases missing #Epstein files related to a woman who made an allegation against #Trump"

To reveal how much of a #fuckedCountry #Americs is, this supposed news agency is relegated to using the Wayback Machine to check on whether or not the #USDOJ is #lying or burying information.

My recommendation?

Start digging up the golf courses for remains of victims. And get ready for the tribunals - they're coming.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-releases-missing-epstein-files-related-woman-made-allegation-trump-rcna262024

#lying #usdoj #americs #fuckedcountry #trump #epstein

Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @[email protected] · 2026-03-06 · 16:31 UTC

"#DOJ releases missing #Epstein files related to a woman who made an allegation against #Trump"

To reveal how much of a #fuckedCountry #Americs is, this supposed news agency is relegated to using the Wayback Machine to check on whether or not the #USDOJ is #lying or burying information.

My recommendation?

Start digging up the golf courses for remains of victims. And get ready for the tribunals - they're coming.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/doj-releases-missing-epstein-files-related-woman-made-allegation-trump-rcna262024

#doj #epstein #trump #fuckedcountry #americs #usdoj

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-03-05 · 18:42 UTC

A quotation from Ben Franklin

It’s common for Men to give 6 pretended Reasons instead of one real one.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1745 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/82…

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Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-03-05 · 06:58 UTC

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying

https://acko.net/blog/the-l-in-llm-stands-for-lying/

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-25 · 21:42 UTC

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Our understanding is conducted solely by means of the word: anyone who falsifies it betrays public society. It is the only tool by which we communicate our wishes and our thoughts; it is our soul’s interpreter: if we lack that, we can no longer hold together; we can no longer know each other. When words deceive us, it breaks all intercourse and loosens the bonds of our polity.

[Nostre intelligence se conduisant par la seule voye de la parolle, celuy qui la faulse, trahit la societé publique. C’est le seul util, par le moyen duquel se communiquent noz volontez & noz pensees : c’est le truchement de nostre ame : s’il nous faut, nous ne nous tenons plus, nous ne nous entreconnoissons plus. S’il nous trompe, il rompt tout nostre commerce, & dissoult toutes les liaisons de nostre police.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Screech (1987)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 22:02 UTC

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Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?

[C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 22:02 UTC

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Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?

[C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 22:02 UTC

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Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?

[C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#quote #vice #quotes #truth #qotd #fear

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 22:02 UTC

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #baseness #contempt #cowardice #defiance #dishonesty #falsehood #fear #lying #truth #untruth #vice

Lying is a villainous vice, and an ancient writer depicts it as most shameful when he says that to lie is to manifest contempt of God together with fear of man. It is not possible to represent more fully the horror, the vileness, the outrageousness of it. For what can be conceived more villainous than to be cowardly with respect to men, and audacious with respect to God?

[C’est un vilain vice, que le mentir ; & qu’un ancien peint bien honteusement, quand il dit, que c’est donner tesmoignage de mespriser Dieu, & quand & quand de craindre les hommes. Il n’est pas possible d’en representer plus richement l’horreur, la vilité & le desreiglement: Car que peut on imaginer plus vilain, que d’estre couart à l’endroit des hommes, & brave à l’endroit de Dieu?]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Ives (1925)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

#micheldemontaigne #baseness #falsehood #untruth #contempt #montaigne

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-18 · 22:02 UTC