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Wrong question as usual
Via MindMatters. The idea that the higher the human population the scarcer earth’s resources become is prevalent and mainstream. It is behind many of the doomsday alarmist calls for population control and influences much of economic theory and practice. But what if it’s wrong? Marian Tupy offers a different account. The earth’s resources and innovation…
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Itchy
The semi-prosecution of celebrity bitcoin influencers bothers me. There’s nothing new about celebrity endorsers who know absolutely nothing about the product they endorse. Their managers and agents make the arrangements, and the celebrities just read the script like any movie or show. Punishing an action that was effectively legal at the time of the endorsement…
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Copyright comprehension
Jectoons understands the copyright problem, and he practices what he preaches by specifying public domain. He wants to have a chance of leaving a legacy.
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Perfectly scientific
From the fucking start, every sane human recognized that imprisonment and strangulation and sleep deprivation and impoverishment and loss of community and loss of social contact and loss of usefulness were NOT scientific responses to a virus. We already knew how to respond to a virus. Maintain immunity. Fresh air and sunshine and exercise. More…
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Guarangoddamnteed.
Kirn writes: Sensibility colonies are forming. They are not organized but magnetized. They’re purely voluntary. You know when you’re in one. You don’t sell out your fellows. You allow for all sorts of differences & when you can aid one another, you do. No one speaks for all. No other rules. The sellout part is…
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If humans had been blind…
This old book reviews early efforts at printing in tactile form. Braille is the most obvious, but intaglio engraving is also 3dish, and carved letters like runes were 3d. If humans had been blind, we would have no concept of 2 dimensions. The tactile world is 3d. The audio world has 4 dimensions: time, frequency,…
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Good.
GOOD. Powell didn’t pause or pivot. He’s the ONLY problem-solver in the entire Federal monstrosity. The EU central bank is assisting him, but NOBODY else in any position of power is on the solving side. ALL the rest are trying to generate more problems and genocide and war and NAZI TORTURE as fast as they…
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AOL coming back to life?
AOL was the Web’s main home page for many years. I came into the web from Compuserve, and ended up inside AOL because Compuserve’s email automatically became AOL. In the last 10 years AOL seemed to be gradually fading, bought by various larger entities, with only its email still functioning. My personal email is still…
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Useful tools
Barrett discusses Lance DeHaven Smith’s “crimes against democracy” theme. Here’s a good ‘montage’ of Smith himself: Smith makes a strong point about branding. In ordinary commerce, when people get dissatisfied with a product, a competing product tries to take advantage of the dissatisfaction. In 1914 people wanted bigger cars than the Ford T at an…
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France.
This one clip mixes the Seven Second Rule and the Self-explanatory sentence in an ultimate way. France. Unfazed diners in Lyon, France, while pension protests are raging on outside from Damnthatsinteresting
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Defending the guild
BlackVault has a new FOIA find from NSA. It’s a short report for internal use, dealing with NSA’s terrorist detection abilities in the ’70s. Only a few redactions, which don’t affect the meaning. The writer sounds like a true professional trying to maintain objectivity in a situation (2002) when objectivity about terrorists was no longer…
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Interesting question
From Denyse at UD: If two snowflakes are identical, does that increase information? Play the game right, don’t look at the other answers. My definition of information is the same as a neuron’s definition. Info is a new sensory input, not fitting into current background patterns, and potentially salient. Putting it another way, info is…
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We know where the goddamn philosophers are.
I’ve often asked WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PHILOSOPHERS? Well, it’s a dumb question. Philosophers are spokesmen for psychopaths. That’s where they are. Unsurprising: Sammy was always a criminal. Professional criminals are born, not made. More salient: When Sammy set up his criminal empire in 2018, he brought along Philosopher MacAskill to provide Gangster Ethics. MacAskill…
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WEF, not WE
Via EvolutionNews, a “philosophy” prof is worrying about the ethics of bug farming. If we’re going to farm animals that are candidates for sentience, then there should be welfare standards, says [philosophy processor Jonathan] Birch. Right now there are no widely recognized welfare guidelines for farmed insects, and few laws that specifically require insect farmers…
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Speaking of
Speaking of physically impossible goals and physically impossible all-debt “banking”, I connected these nicely in 2019. = = = = = START FUCKING REPRINT: Last month I thoroughly EXPLODED the blasphemous “green” “new” “deal”, ending with the FACT that the real purpose was the “new forms of financing”, in other words MMT. Now the purpose…
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