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Mathew Crawford's avatar

I found it extremely interesting while working on this article that Chat GPT absolutely refuses to make realistic images of Chris Butler. Out of scores of people I've had it create images of, it has done fairly well almost every time. Butler is the sole exception to this point.

Gary Ogden's avatar

Mathew: I'm curious about his age. If his father was born around 1920, came to Hawaii in 1955, and Chris/Kris was born subsequently, he would be around 70. If he is Tulsi's mentor, good lord!

Mathew Crawford's avatar

Chris was born in 1948, IIRC, the same year as Tulsi's parents. The article with Dr. Butler lists Chris (Kris) among the children when he moved.

Gary Ogden's avatar

Thanks. That was the year before me. He's then on the verge of ancient.

Gary Ogden's avatar

Bravo, Mathew! I deeply appreciate the enormous amount of work you put into these two articles. I don't read the news, so I didn't know about thr WaPo story. I liked Tulsi from 2020, when I first heard of her (mainly because of her anti-war stance and her demolishment of the cackler in the "debate"), but trust has vanished entirely on that score. Hilarious that Roger Stone is promoting her for VP! Finally, that Mikki Willis character can't possibly be for real. Probably arrived in one of those interstellar UFO's..

Mathew Crawford's avatar

When people say, "never again," they need to remember to apply that to trusting politicians.

Gary Ogden's avatar

Truer words were never spoken. Trump put that nail in the coffin for me on February 28th.

Visceral Adventure's avatar

Holy moly cannoli, friend! This was epic! It took me so long to get through it, partially because Di kept stopping to try and find pictures of these people… I’m always so curious to see what they look like. And partially because I’d lose the thread and would have to reread portions to be able to move on. The polysyllabic names didn’t help.

I can sound off on one thing as an acting coach, since you brought it up, the social smile can absolutely be training. But it can also signal masking of fear, of trying not to fall apart. Part of me wonders how many of these cultish figures realize they’re way in over their heads but the impossibility of escape shows up as strange body language.

Thank you for committing your time, energy, and intellect to this expansive research. 🙌

Bradley Utpadel's avatar

Time to defrag my hard drive of consciousness after reading this excellent, pithy and contextual expose. In another DOT to the digital world of information gathering do you have any thoughts on this new search engine Freespoke.com ? Peace be with you Mathew. I appreciate your gifts and your diligence to search for the truth.

Mathew Crawford's avatar

I don't think that I had never heard of Freespoke.com until just this moment. Now I am curious to try it, and also curious to run some AI tests with it.

Cheers.