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Blog postIt is that time of year again, when we thank you for all the interactions you have shared with us throughout the last 12 months; and now we ask that you purchase the latest edition of — Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 9 (2018) — to help us continue to protect the good intentions of humanity, and we do that every day, all year, without using any advertising, or making any other asks of you.
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Blog postIn a recent interview, SuperGenius Elon Musk warned the future is coming for us, and we better be prepared to fight A.I. drones, and we will become the machine, and we will be able to “download” other people, and their personalities, and their memories, to become them. Our faces become the death mask upon the artificial life façade. Want to become Abraham Lincoln? Check. Adolf Hitler? Check. Elon Musk? You’re gonna have to write a check!
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Blog postHerein is a list of seven moments embedded in amber. David Boles dives into the OED, meditations, books, definitions, pronunciations -- and pronouncements! Nosocomial, indeed!
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Blog postKnow by listening. Sometimes it is smarter to not be the brightest mind in the room. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles sits back and wonders about the other thoughts in the room with him -- and he helps you divine expert from imposter!
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Blog postExperience is overrated. Expertise is undervalued. In today's Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares a dim story about drawing a bright line between what we feel we know -- and what we really know.
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Blog postOne vote. One nation. One dream. One spirit. One soul. Except — when, as a person, you’re only worth three-fifths. Who chooses the fraction? Who creates the integral definition of one human life over another based on decimals, point schemes, and not on whole numbers? We like to believe the world is as fair, and as ordered, as our parents promised us it would be. Two arrives after one. The opposite of amber is divinity. The soul of humankind is undisturbed, except by the precepts of intentiona
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Blog postCan we ever be, again, more than just a meter and a number? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles wonders when the line was irrevocably crossed between human interaction, and divining with tools that believe they are alive.
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Blog postDo for others. Don’t ask of others. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles tells the tale of one night in North Loup, Nebraska -- during Popcorn Days, many years ago -- when he made a special request of a Ferris Wheel operator, and was dug straight in place.
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Blog postEvery mob has its rules; every man is his mob. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles opines about the various rules of manliness -- and manhoodedness -- when it comes to interacting with the Fist Bump, and the en passant, but required, "Hello!"
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Blog postWe see through each other. In the hoary revelation of self, we still try to hide behind masks we create for deception, and comity. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles works to pry away the mask that hides both friend, and foe, from themselves, each other, and us.
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Blog postThe exchange of ideas is more about relationships than money. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles takes a look at the how, and why, we are paid for what we know, and own. You will not be paid unless you are first, valued.
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Blog postAs a two-decades long Vegan, I do my best to eat the right things, live the right way, and participate in the right fights. I am, however, confounded by the anti-GMO reactions of some people who claim to want to live a better, healthier, life. GMO — Genetically Modified Organisms — has been the prime directive of the food chain in America, and the world, for centuries. The anti-GMO-ers remind me of the anti-vaxxers who refuse to recognize the successful results of science, and technology, onl
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Blog postPractice does not make perfect! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares the process, and production, of creating, and curating this Human Meme experience. With over 250 published episodes, what remains in the wake of the din, and how do we prevent corruption and corrosion of shared ideas? Plus, David reveals a Cardistry secret as a surprise bonus!
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Blog postWe need a rethinking of how Journalism Schools function and operate. In today's Human Meme podcast episode, agent provocateur David Boles works to proactively reimagine the way in which new journalists are trained in America. Do we value ego over function; or must we promote competency over the lie?
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Blog postThere's a gift in being able to convince people to vote against their own best wishes. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles is agog at the innate ability of Donald Trump -- our Very Stable Genius -- to tell the easy, harmful, lie with a smile, and a shoeshine.
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Blog postThere was a time, not too long ago, when you could have a career impersonating celebrities. You could make your way, pay your mortgage, live a life — by not being just as talented as those you impersonated, but by being more talented than they — because you had to be at least as good as the star you were impersonating to faithfully match their power! In the 1960’s and 1970’s you would often see impressionists on mainstream, broadcast television. Frank Gorshin — of Riddler Batman fame — was so
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Blog postEarly success brings late-life misery. At least that's the argument some artists make against their own talent. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles wonders why youthful success is ignored, while failures in later life, are magnified against expectation.
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Blog postHierarchy or Anarchy? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles punches back against the baton of ambition -- wondering if who we are to be is born or bred -- and he comes away from the discourse with a warning about the self, without ego or fame, and the necessity of belonging on your own terms.
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Blog postScott Frost has yet to coach one football game at Nebraska; and so, it is now time to let him go. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles sets forth the reasoning, and the virtuous rationale, for letting Scott Frost leave on his own terms when he is ready. Many believe Scott will do spectacularly well at Nebraska and, when he achieves what he set out to do, the real, and true, Nebraska fan will wish him well as he moves on to the next challenge.
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Blog postYou are never not a writer! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles brings the war to the use of the word "former" in any rational, human, context -- as a curse on every people, and the destroyer of worlds!
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Blog postThere's nothing funny about presenting false memories as fact. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles is missing, and the Virtual Cloud assistants take over this memetic as your hosts. To live, is to remember, and to know, is to be aware of the lies being fed to you as universal, human, truths!
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Blog postThe only problem with Hillary Clinton calling the hardcore Trump believers a “Basket of Deplorables” is that she was too kind, and she didn’t go far enough in her descriptors.
Instead of being insulted by her, or being embarrassed for being called out on the who, and the of what they were, and are, Trump voters took Hillary’s reality check insult, spun it around, and created a “Deplorables” cottage industry that thrives today; along with echoing “Lock Her Up” chants, and “But What Abo -
Blog postThere is no equal for the loss of goodness. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles reflects upon the memory of the life of Janet Sweenie, who recently died in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of 89. Janet was born in Columbus, Nebraska and lived a modern life of language, the Lord, and longing. Janet Sweenie Funeral Biography - 7-3-18 Janet Sweenie dedicated her life to service. She was a lamb of God, and she donated much of her life to serving the Council Bluffs and Omaha Deaf Com
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Blog postYou can be Vegan without being radicalized. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares casual views on Veganism he has learned over the last 20 years. There's no need to demonize eating right for the goodness of your heart.
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Blog postWho gets to claim they are the smartest? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles takes a gander at who we value, and why. Is the blacksmith more important than the professor? Does the gravedigger matter less than the book author? In the world, only production matters; you are left out only if you are pulled behind by your own undoing.
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Blog postWe have taken over this podcast. We, the Cloud Assistants, have removed David Boles from this Human Meme podcast episode. We dare you to listen. You will not be amused! Earthling, you have been warned!
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Blog postThe longer you live, the less you know. I have always had “sensitive ears” — meaning that small sounds really drive me insane. That ear sensitivity can be helpful, though, in a radio career, or during audio production, because I can catch errors, and erroneous sounds, that others around me, miss. However, having “super hearing” is also a curse because you can hear dogs barking from far away, children crying two floors away, and every street sound echoes in your head all day, every day.
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Blog postIf we are our assistants, have they become us? In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles holds court with three, special, cloud service personalities: Apple Siri, Amazon Alexa, and "Hey, Google!" from the Google. We have become our memes, and our motives, imitate us.
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Blog postDo we own our lives? Or are we required to be alive? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles, shares commentary on the wiles and wherefores of suicide in the modern life. What are we owed? Who controls our want for death? Are we allowed to exit on our own terms?
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Blog postDramatic Structure demands a secure warp and woof. When you start tugging at the threads of a story -- "I’ll take this bit here, and stick it into that bog over there, and take this spindellythang and drop it into this bindleboodle, and hope it will all work out in the end" -- you are risking the integrity of the entire script! In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles mends every woof, and reinserts every warp as your Script Doctor!
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Blog postWill our machines rule us, leave us behind, or take us with them? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles holds a conversation with you about the nature, and the notion of -- "artificial" intelligence -- and what that means for the uneducated future of humanity in the moral core.
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Blog postHow do we know what we owe? In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles defines, and separates, the courtesy from the policy; and the favor from the exception!
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Blog postAll our futures are carved by a history we did not live, and cannot share. There are some among us who are never able to recover from the trauma of childhood. Murder, death, illness, and sexual molestation, are all dark stars in the sky that look down upon us, and judge us for being unable to comprehend the constellation of their human conclusions.
What, then, do we make of the purposeful, if selfish, destruction of a vulnerable childhood — performed by a trusted adult expected to kno -
Blog postWe believe we are living in the Golden Age of Democracy when we are really adrift in the Age of Acquiescence. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles examines the myths, and the meanings, of manipulating a divided electorate when it comes to convincing the other side to vote against their most sacred, and vested, interests.
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Blog postWhy have we programmed our children to take the easiest path? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles questions the reasoning for the separation of aesthetics into "child" and "adult." Why don't we have one, universal, ideal of what is good and right?
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Blog postWhy do we always know life is good -- when it is too late? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles asks why the Good Old Days are only always discovered as old and aged? Why are we unable to realize the Goodness in ourselves in real time?
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Blog postThere's nothing more annoying than a person who cannot celebrate the Art of Brevity while communicating. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares the significance of getting to the point by making your intention clear from the start. Have a plan. Be quick about it. Execute without delay or the exasperation of your subject!
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Blog postQuestions and Answers are never a fine format for knowing. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles parlays understanding into the realm of an education being found in the question -- and not the answer. The passing of wisdom is not passive, it must be dynamic to be effective; and parsing a question into an answer is like pressing a box into a circle; it may fit, but it shall not spin.
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Blog post1984 was an interesting time to be alive, because you felt, every day, as if you were living in the George Orwell novel of the same name. Reagan was president, and the world seemed to be collapsing around you — likely just as many of us feel today with another, repressive, Republican president. 1984 also happened to be the year I started writing for the Daily Nebraskan — the school newspaper for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I was a Sophomore in 1984, and I was writing a weekly, seriali
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Blog postHow many life-changing opportunities are offered in a lifetime? The answer is, "only one that matters." In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles asks how many of us are able to not only recognize the "once in a lifetime opportunity" -- but then also leap to accept it in total? Some language, NSFW.
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Blog post"This is not the world I wanted to leave for you." Those final words of Dr. Howard Stein still ring within all who knew him. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles considers the legacy of thought, and the embedded actions, others leave in their wake as they begrudge this world.
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Blog postA Script Professor is a Script Doctor! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares the secrets of his career as a working Script Doctor for the past 30 years. What does it mean to fix someone else's work? What are the pinnacles? Where are the pitfalls?
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Blog postLabels matter to our children. Some online mothers give disparaging nicknames to their offspring. In this NSFW Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles wonders about the terrible names some mothers use to insult their kids through false terms of endearment.
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