#phraseology — Public Fediverse posts

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

And . . . Do Those Sheep Hallucinate Bullshit?

(AI Detective FAILS for Your Consideration)

Who is running this Artificial Intelligence? This Fatuous Forensic Criminology? This Whole Worldwide Factoid News Media?

May God Allied Mastercomputer help us!

I don’t want to hear any of the crap from the tech apologists who are going to cry, “Oh, that’s not AI; that’s just glorified autocomplete!”

Your problem, not mine.

If it’s calling itself “AI” or the humans who designed it have labeled it, “AI” – as you can clearly witness from the screen captures – then I judge it as AI.

So . . .

FAIL!

. . . Next!

. . . Another killer on the loose . . .

A.I. is now in control of all things. (Yours truly : Reddit)

I’m ‘a gonn’a learn Reddit somm’a grammar and then somm’a forensic linguistics!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZodiacKiller/comments/1dukd3b/oh_theres_more_much_much_more/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I reckon if you folks can’t figure that the Zodiac disguised his handwriting, then y’all best jus’ go on an’a git!

Eco on Echo Chambers

MEME: When you come face-to-face with the realization and subsequent existential dread of having had a virtual (!) close-encounter with a horde of yobbos spawned from Woodstock ’99

Like their M&D, they still doin’ it for the nookie! (but evidently frustrated they ain’t gettin’ any).

I may expound upon the following draft points and additional ones, so be sure to check back!

• Infinite Monkey Theorem irony in all the tap-tap-tapping, giddy-up, giddy-up, gish gallop, gish gallop, click-click-clicking out of words (hourly/daily) from these nameless keyboard Forensic Files Reddit warriors and holy sh*!, they can’t even see that the linguistic comparison of sequential lines between Allen and the Zodiac is very possibly not by chance – especially considering the limited linguistic corpus (read: non-boilerplate / non-form letter samples) available from Allen!
  
  Furthermore, in this example [Exhibit 9.0b], both Allen and the Zodiac are using the phrases “just pick up the kid” | “pick off the kiddies” with a parallel contextual tone as if the kid / kiddies are an afterthought, like baggage (and written only seven years apart). And don’t forget the ‘+’ sign that one noodle-brain redditor claimed I was using as my only rationale. Another slick we-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-sentence-diagramming redditor made up his own sample to challenge my exhibit, but in which he changed the noun kid to a verb. LOL! If he hadn’t done that and let’s presume, ceteris paribus, his hypothetical sentence was coming from the # 1 Zodiac killer suspect, then YES – it too would be worth linguistically considering! What’s up doc? Where do you catch-22 all these Ca’nyuk Nyuks from! Eh?
  
• Note to these redditors: Just because it’s 2024 and you tap-tap-tap . . . gish gallop . . . gish gallop . . . giddy-up . . . giddy-up . . . durp-durp-durp. . . your bully-boy/girl/tweener sophistic prattle minute-by-minute, it doesn’t alter the fact that while my linguistic samples don’t prove (on their own) that Allen was the Zodiac [never said that they did, but do check out my other ample original research 😉 ] there is more weight to the comparisons of similar strings of diction and phraseology between both authors based on the limited amount of writings evidenced in the first place. Holy cow, you morons – you don’t even need to wait for the Forensic Linguistics departments to weigh in on that obvious fact. In other words, yes indeed there is something here non-“cherry-picked” and worthy of the professional linguists examining.
  
• Having to repeat AT LEAST HALF A DOZEN TIMES (count them; EDIT: +1) in the same thread that I am researching forensic linguistics, NOT handwriting OR graphology. The sad thing is they weren’t even trying to punk or troll the O.P. on that! Their attention spans, focus, and reading comprehension are that bad. But hey, Reddit is perfectly suited for the Kool-Aid kid ADHD crowd. Do they ever go back and check out—perchance to correct and learn—the dumbest things they typed in a thread before that thread is banished to the Memory Hole while the same topic is regurgitated yet again, the following week? ¡¿Oye como va, Santayana?!
  
• If you are unaware that the Zodiac killer changed his handwriting style in numerous letters he authored (look them up), which are widely accepted – if not fully authenticated by Law Enforcement – then you’ve got your homework, but please refrain from judging my research, which clearly, you are not qualified to do.
  
• The r/ZodiacKiller redditors revel in pushing prove-a-negative defenses to their allegations about a person’s research on a particular suspect:
  
  The only reason that someone would investigate Arthur Leigh Allen now is because of Graysmith, his book, the movie; he was the most popular suspect . . . Today, there’s nothing worth an amateur investigating on Allen that a pro investigator wouldn’t have already discovered. What’s more . . . If your research findings dare to implicate a main suspect (Arthur Leigh Allen) then, that alone is proof that you are begging the question – petitio principii – from conclusion to evidence! [See the accusers’ recursive hypocrisy there? :-p Reddit indulges particularly in this logical fallacy.]
  
  These are actual beliefs repeated – unchallenged – on that sub by grousing knuckleheads who never had a creative or original thought, or considered hypothesis in their lives, and likely never will! Online Logic 101 isn’t one of their curriculum strengths either; and, good God! To think some of them will be going to the ballot boxes soon. (Btw, check out my Studebaker / Kaiser vehicle research as but one other of my original forensic examples).
  
• Wait until I get to some of their own sample (il)logical arguments . . . 😉 Saved Reddit histories are a beautiful thing for the Big Men on Campus. I’m gonna make M&D so proud of their lil’ limp bizkits!
  
  
  • RefrigeratorSolid379: “This demonstrates nothing. Absolutely nothing…..”
    This is RefrigeratorSolid’s five-word knee-jerk reaction to my Reddit topic post. . . .1
    
  • SeoliteLoungeMusic: “This looks a lot like the sort of fixation schizophrenics often suffer from: some detail that screams with significance in the sufferer’s mind, but they can’t explain why, at least not in a way that makes sense to normal people. …”
    Oh, boy… have I found out a thing or two about SLiM shady . . . I can’t wait! I can’t wait! . . .2
    
  • Glasdwarf: “Can I ask if your credentials and experience top that of the many handwriting experts and linguists who have ruled Allen out as the Zodiac? …”
    Glasdwarf has made a total of three comments, all superficial, about the Zodiac killer on Reddit in the past twelve months . . .3
    
    
• The Reddit posts (and site-wide histories) demonstrate abundant examples of the phenomenon of Reddit wannabe (or failed bar) “defense lawyers” [♫ dun-dun! ♫] Special Arguendo & Eristic Unit. Contrast these with the commenters who have little-to-no real interest in the Zodiac killer case or true crime in general. They signed up to that echo chamber of arrogance and inanity on a whim months or years ago, but stopped by to unload negative karma and a five-or-less-word quip because they were having a bad day with mummy and/or daddy. Did somebody say ‘Eco’ chamber? Rather than constructive criticism, they habitually find the need to dispense invalidation. Chronically, there are the many who will forever follow the rump in front like woolly-headed sheeple with a down-vote. [See A.I. essay results from Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication]

MEME: [In a voice and mannerism redolent of Restoration period fops, Lucien Callow and Fagan] Hello, I’m not a real solicitor, but I play one on Reddit. I am, however, a bona fide pseudo-intellectual. See, [points with closed Asian folding fan] it says so under my 50×50 pixel avatar featuring a real (!) photo of yours truly [Who does that?]. [In single deft motion of wrist, flicks fan open and begins fanning unctuous smiling face] Permit me to represent you and your fatherless child, M’lady.

• Please tell me the majority of them are fellow Americans . . . I have to believe . . . you see, I expect more from the Asians & Euros . . . (except for that one overweening German nitwit who called my example poor, but then – get this – proceeds like Herr Hypocrite to make a post elsewhere offering the most unoriginal, weakest dross on suspect Allen that we’ve witnessed alongside that r/ZodiacKiller sub’s daily, also-ran, fatuous, repetitive lists. He couldn’t even manage a low-bar vault; and I’m the one he’s nicking site graphics from! [Shhhhh… (in a whisper) I think he may be “Angry-German-Kid” all grown up and new keyboard.]

• The r/ZodiacKiller admin and mods are all too pleased to direct visitors to their prominently displayed sitewide rules of conduct, including dictums: “Subreddit for mature discussion” . . . “be nice,” while allowing rampant violations as long as their groups of mincing nancies do it in a passive-aggressive dialogue. By now this comprises premeditated, scripted open public phone calls between grrrlfriends – wink-wink, they’re not attacking the O.P. in O.P.’s own thread. Evidently, on an given day, this must fly over the head and multi-tasking abilities of one Canadian’s sensibilities when he’s averaging ~7 [edit: ~3 today!] visitors to his sub, like the German pole vaulter.
  
  (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Redditors!)
  
• I thought my generation was hard on our teachers. I genuinely feel so sorry for their teachers.
  
• Additionally, there is a tendency for the maladjusted bully-boys to make sweeping declarations, fancying themselves speaking for the whole of Reddit (control & group validation issues?). Keep in mind that they are neither admin, nor mods, nor original poster, and hence, have no access to a specific thread’s comprehensive activity:
  
  “This might surprise you. But most people here just want the case solved. And don’t care who the killer ends up being.”
  “[W]e can ask no more.”
  “No one is impressed with your post.”
  
  “Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'” —Mark Twain
  
  I genuinely feel so sorry for their counselors & therapists (the ones sadly, these pontificating know-it-alls will probably never see). [Get Charlie Brooker on the line! Boy, have I got a new Black Mirror script that just wrote itself!]
  
• It speaks volumes as a sad commentary when a central forum aspiring to be an open clearinghouse for the exchange of facts and ideas on a true crime decides to direct visitors—via top-pinned post, no less—to a private members-only Discord. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose? Weeding out our embarrassing sandlot riffraff are we? I mean, why not. If a big problem on the main forum is a dearth of quality contribution, competent moderation and administration, hey, the solution must be to stretch human resources even thinner with redundant forums? 🤣
  
• I am aware of two distinguished [ 😀 ] r/ members who remain(ed) conspicuously absent from commenting in my Reddit subject post. One is obvious because it is, after all, the r/ZodiacKiller sub; the other member would be most keen on a Zodiac killer linguistics topic inextricably related to their own field of specialty.
  
  I knew – actually, I’ve known well before the topic activity subsided – when the Reddit trolls (per character type & trait) refused to reciprocate my polite and constructive follow-up explanations and questions. They balked at expanding on their five-word sound/keyboard bites/bytes before being drawn via chronic ADHD impulses (incl. that unrequited nookie) to run off with trolling mates in toe. Off they go to the next random topic in the Reddit-sphere for a quick “karma” fix, like a daily self-affirmation boost of MMORPG first-person-shooter cosmetic self-esteem. Yes, I knew – that they remain ill-equipped on so many levels: from linguistics, to emotional maturity, to common decency in civil discourse to hold even a modicum of sensible opinion on my topic.
  
  KNIGHTS: Charge!
  [squeak squeak squeak]
  KNIGHTS: Aaaaugh!, Aaaugh!, etc.
  ARTHUR: Run away! Run away!
  KNIGHTS: Run away! Run away!…
  
  As to those two distinguished lurkers, specifically, I know why they stayed uncharacteristically out of the topic. It may seem like a safe choice hedge-bet, for now; but more on this . . . later. I keep all the receipts. 😉
  
• I made my most recent post there because someone I do not know had already started a topic about my work: Zodiac’s Last Puzzle . . . Allen’s Final Written Confession; generally well-received I might add.
  
• Shortly after I posted my own thread, a new topic popped up re: Allen and his wig that featured an image [with my own arrow graphic clearly visible] directly plucked from my WordPress site’s post: Facial Composites & Sketches, also displayed on my WP Home page. Go figure the cause and effect steps there, detective! 🔍🕵🏿🔎 Here, I thought German Internet & media (and the citizens they serve) were more serious than most countries about dodgy intellectual property behavior. 🤔
  
• My only previous activity years ago—and the reason I requested activation of my account in the first place (literally, to protect my work!)—involved having to file (a successful) complaint with Reddit central admins because a member took one of my original research mark-up images from my site, sliced off my attribution banner on the bottom, and then proceeded to re-post it as their own.
  
  Suggestion for Reddit & Redditors: I have absolutely no desire to use any of your forums, so to paraphrase Will Smith (undoubtedly, one of your faves): Keep my WordPress research site out of your f—king mouths and off your f—king keyboards!
  
  Moreover, if the plagiaristic attempts resume from a couple of years ago, at which time I remained diplomatic, I will file an immediate, formal, and official complaint and provide all history on the matter.
  
  P.S. I keep all the receipts [and from Discord too. Peek-A-Boo! There are spies amongst you. Vee have vays! 🕵🏿‍♀️🕵️‍♂️🕵🏾‍♂️🕵️‍♀️]. 😉

https://youtu.be/04clpd7h0b0?si=Z-Jf7iERUpXr2pR2

The Emperor has no clothes!
(and Snoo is nude, too!)

I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list,
of Reddit’s Finest:

(Opera Slippers & Powdered Wigs)

1. RefrigeratorSolid379: When asked, he refused to explain. [Did I mention those who feel threatened by further circumstantial evidence that may weigh against Allen?] His username has been around the r/ZodiacKiller for years. Could somebody inform me as to exactly what RefrigeratorSolid has brought to the table in all this time?
   
   CLICK HERE to learn of his profound “one bit of proof” contribution to the Zodiac killer research community.
   
   That’s right. According to RefrigeratorSolid, Graysmith is a demonstrable liar…. and thus, doubt is cast on Allen being the killer because when talking with a journalist in 2007, Robert Graysmith misremembered his reference to a secondary (or tertiary, etc.) hypothesis about the crime events on a calendar, and got the exact 1969 date for Columbus Day wrong.
   
   I’d like to give this nameless troll credit for his forensic magnum opus to Reddit, but while he prizes his own work so highly that he remains anonymous, one must refer to him as RefrigeratorSolid379, which I believe is trucker CB slang for a poopsicle. Now, you mean to tell me there are at least 378 more of these lying on ground between rest stops over the length of Interstate 80?
   
   “I am working on it.”
   
   This unfounded statement (five words, again – wouldn’t you know!), RefrigeratorSolid has repeated several times whenever the post topic of Who is Currently Working the Zodiac Killer Investigation comes up. Unintentionally ironic? Clueless? Both? It doesn’t take long, nor an algorithm to deduce that he uses Reddit login alts (mostly non-members to r/ZodiacKiller) to inflate his positive karma points on his ridiculously banal comments. Admin, doc_daneeka and his mod (u/Mrs_Daneeka with “her” all-time grand total of one comment to the sub) remain blissfully ignorant to all this, of course.
   
   YES, SENSEI !
   ↩︎
2. SeoliteLoungeMusic: SLiM Shady is one of those r/ZodiacKiller redditors who attempts to exploit the aforementioned ADHD world of his and his peers. He stalks surreptitiously from the bushes until what he believes is just the right time to get his ad hominem zingers in – when he thinks a thread topic has been all but abandoned. [Not with me you don’t, bud. 😀 ] On average, judging by up/down voting, it’s patently clear that true crime redditors lose interest in any given thread topic after about the first parent post level. lol [insert animated gif image here of keys dangled in front of baby’s face.]
   
   Lounge boy sure came in for a hard landing on my post; it makes you wonder if he has a bias against Allen, and in favor of another suspect? You think? Wonder no longer – check these out:
   
   
   
   
   
   SLiM, when he’s not “fixated” on U.S. politics, is inclined to sadfish his mood disorders with Reddit therapy bots:
   
   The Eminent Dr. SLiM evidently believes his suffering over-share somehow qualifies him to diagnose someone whom he neither knows nor has ever met—me (and my work)—as not within the realm of normality, even potentially “schizophrenic.” I see… well here’s a tip for Lounge boy: Do watch out for those cooking plates! [You know, like “normal people” would do.] On second thought, you may want to opt for a microwave, reassured with the knowledge that you are wearing your alum-in-I-um foil cap.
   
   AGAIN! YES, SHIFU !
   ↩︎
3. Glasdwarf: Tells us in one perfunctory comment that he’s watched the Fincher Zodiac film (his credentials and experience?), and in another – with nary a proof of critical thinking proffered – that, “It’s not him [Allen] 100%,” and “Not one of the known suspects is the Zodiac.” Really? To Glasdwarf: So where are your “facts”? Why bother wasting everyone’s time with disingenuous rhetorical questions when you already had your predetermined conclusion to drop a couple of lines later?:
   
   “I do not believe that your theory holds any water and adds nothing to the debate other than self promotion that this post was clearly designed to do.”
   
   You can believe whatever you want, but if you’re going to accuse me of self promotion (intended pejoratively as your post was clearly designed to do) you had best be prepared to back it up. By your reasoning, anyone who posts and is prepared to defend a forensic hypothesis online is guilty of “self-promotion.” What’s interesting is that there are monetized true crime self-promoters, tragedy profiteers to every degree (YouTube, Amazon book sales, or holiday cash grabs on original newsprint stories of dead victims, etc.) swirling about r/ZodiacKiller and other forums on a weekly basis – each with a different ‘suspect’ – and yet, our valiant social injustice warrior, Glasdwarf, combat(t)ing self-promotion at every turn is nowhere to be found!
   
   I explained the obvious to Glasdwarf: I’m not selling any books, running any pod/webcasts; and I use a free WordPress site. Glasdwarf chose to answer not. He did make haste away, while yea! Brave, Sir BlackLionYard, Ponce de Reddit, stepped in with some prattling interference, permitting The not-so-brave, Glasdwarf time enough to scurry to his next pub meet or game of CODpieceWarzone.
   
   Oh, and who are the “many linguists” you confidently assert have ruled Arthur Leigh Allen “out as the Zodiac”?
   
   [EXT. SOF. The soft repetitive ticking sound of bog bush-crickets in Dumfries and Galloway]
   
   AGAIN! YES, SIR TRAINSPOTTING ROD !
   
   more to come. . . Oh there’s more, much, much, more . . .℠ 😀
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When you know the little men are second-guessing themselves, doing damage control, literally – hedging their bets:

They start the serial murder suspect oddsmaking posts. What should they care, anyway? It’s not as if they are stepping out from behind their anonymous I.D. masks to own their claims – or their cash. 😉 Talk is cheap; but in in 2025 it’ll get you “karma” on Reddit!

https://youtu.be/7hx4gdlfamo?si=eLfHgBV3TL1NPGox

You boys best start ‘a runnin’ . . . Real quick like.

© 2024 Robert P. Ackerman

zodiacconfessed.wordpress.com

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