[FRIAM] A hundred words for swindle

[Steve Smith]

/Sucker born every minute?/

/Fool me twice, shame on me?
/

> Talking with John Zingale at Friam about conniving chatbots, I 
> remembered this essay from 2009, https://elf.org/etc/swindle.html, 
> which starts from real estate speculators in early US history and gets 
> to the deplorable state of the internet.
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