Diary (June 20, 2020)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Saturday June 20, 2020.

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Marx and Dickens

The thing about Karl Marx is, he was right about the suffering of factory workers, he was right about the misery of crowded industrial cities, he was right about how the rich oppressed the poor.

Much in the same way that Charles Dickens was right about all those things, although Marx and Dickens proposed very different solutions to the problems of the world, as likewise did their successors, admirers, and imitators.

Searching For A Kidney

"Searching For A Kidney." (Screenshot from Season Two of Happy.)

Oh dear God. HAPPY Season Two, even more so very wrong than Season One.

"Fanfare For The Common Man" indeed.

A message requires a reply

A message requires a reply.

This is the nature of life.

Letters to the Auditor

Letters to the Auditor -

Sample audit log:

• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I bet you'll never audit this, but ..."
• "To: Auditor: [name redacted] told me that ..."
• "To: Auditor: [name redacted] swears that ..."
• "To: Auditor: [name redacted] swears during waterboarding that ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Go entirely deaf you tone-deaf ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "To: Auditor: [microphone identity redacted] ... [identity of confidential informant redacted] ... [traffic noise redacted] ... [sirens redacted] ... [911 call redacted] ... [911 call redacted] ... [911 call redacted] ... [911 call redacted] ... [voices redacted] ... [gunfire redacted] ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "Dear Auditor, I recorded the killing of ..."
• "To: Auditor: [microphone identity redacted] ... Arming weapons ... [location of non-lethal weapon redacted] ... "
• "Dear Auditor, Go entirely deaf you tone-deaf ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "To: Auditor: " ... [microphone identity redacted] ... [identity of blackmail victim redacted] ... [sex play redacted] ..."
• "To: Auditor: " ... [microphone identity redacted] ... [solicitation of bribery redacted] ... [identify of public official redacted] ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Go entirely deaf you tone-deaf ..."
• "Hear My Voice, O mere listener ..."
• "Dear Auditor, Listen to this ..."
• "To: Auditor: [microphone identity redacted] ... [location of mobile device redacted] ... "
• "Dear Auditor, When you play any speech by Donald Trump backwards the sound is enough to ..."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Karl Jones (nonfiction)