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One good thing about the internet
The web has always been an interesting carrier of obscure hobbies. Even before the HTML web, the Compuserve and USENET forums were full of peculiar hobbies. Some of those tribute pages are still around, untouched since 1996, and still valuable. Here’s a new one I haven’t seen before. Preparing railroad spikes on a bed of…
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Backward definition of rogue
Headline seen at RealClear: Math formula predicts when AI agents go rogue First thought: Well, that’s dumb. No formula needed, they’re rogue by definition and intention. In programming terms, if Exists(agent): GoRogue(agent) Second thought: No, this misses the meaning of rogue. In normal life a man goes rogue by breaking his contract, an animal goes…
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Y no Trig?
Occasionally I wonder why math is so scantily represented in street names. Integers are everywhere, and some addresses have 1/2 or rarely 1/4 and 3/4. (Those quarters seem to be a specialty of Los Angeles bungalow courts.) There are only a few decimal street names applied to county roads. For instance, T.5 Road is halfway…
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Nice clear distinction
Addams vs Ulrich, candidates for county judge, two lawyers representing opposite poles in the AI mess. For many jobs the distinction between new and old digital tools isn’t a central part of the job itself. A commercial artist isn’t enforcing laws, she’s making pictures for magazines or websites. When she uses AI she indirectly steals…
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Y not Decistars?
Seen at Substack, the OnlyFans for readers: Goodreads finally has half stars! About time! They also added quarter stars. I am curious, do you like to rate in halves and quarters? Web people are ferociously metric. If you dare to mention inches or pounds, you’ll be consigned to Primitive Murkan Hell, a horrible neanderthal cave…
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Not even a reported full moon reported!
Along with the usual reported dozen reported overdoses, we’ve got some reported Creative Craziness today reported! 2200 East South Altamont Blvd, assault reported. Caller reports she was attacked with a dog bone and a water can. [Imagining this fight would be a good challenge for story-writers. I can’t picture it!] Reported a student stabbed a…
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Heimatkunde test
Seen in the Zillow Gone Wild section of Reddit. It’s in Junction City, deeply familiar territory to me. Looking at the first pic, it’s just a well-kept typical tract house, nothing special. Typical Kansas cliff behind it, again nothing special. I used to climb cliffs like this, made forts, dug fossils. Wonder why it’s so…
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Could temper my hatred
I hate NYC. It has bombed the country many times to enrich the rich. Wall Street has done INFINITELY more damage to us than Japs or Krauts or Saudis or Russkies, especially since the Russkies never even tried to attack us. But a few more articles like this could temper my hatred! This short piece…
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Aphid Day 2026
Aphid Day this year is Oct 4, fairly typical. I’ve been seeing a few aphids in previous days. Today they gave a nice clear signal that summer is over, filling the air as soon as the sun brightened. This summer was milder than usual thanks to Nature, but holocaustier than usual thanks to our fucked…
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Some collapses are good
The largest “cultural resource management” firm just collapsed, losing 300 archeologist jobs. I didn’t know such companies existed, but their existence explains a lot of shit. Our infrastructure is collapsing BECAUSE these companies exist. (Along with a dozen other destructive obstructors.) More collapse, please! The SOLE PURPOSE of Cultural Resource Management is to profit from…
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Applies both ways
Somebody posted a story from back in the 80s. Trump tried to get into Studio 54, which is apparently a really cool place. He was turned down. This was supposed to tell us that Trump was always rotten. If I hadn’t heard of him before, this would have the opposite effect. Rich people and fashionable…
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One variable amid the constants.
Still thinking after rereading Max Shulman. His description of college in 1940 exactly matches college today and college in 1500. Perfect constant for 500 years. There’s one important variable in the perception of college. Shulman was a bestselling author, which means he was resonating with what people already knew. When an old book or show…
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Desistance Day
Today is Nonviolence Day, marking Gandhi’s birthday. A good time to revisit Desistance, which seems to be even more foreign and alien now than it was a few years ago. This rule is universal. When you’re supposed to argue about a specific question, you know the REAL question is elsewhere. Deepstate uses this trick in…
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Why bother?
Craig Murray continues to dissect the usual Deepstate false flag operations, as he did so masterfully with Skripal. I used to think that FBI-sponsored “terrorism” was meant to develop public support for more war against the countries we were going to attack anyway. Government-sponsored “riots” developed public support for more internal persecution of religious or…
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