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Electrotyping, part 1 of 3
August 2026: bringing this series up to the front to celebrate a smart decision by Kansas City. As pointed by Robert Bryce, the KC planning commission rejected a proposal to replace the Kellogg bldg by a tall AI data center. GOOD. Ansel Kellogg built a data center specifically to keep small country papers alive with…
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Electrotyping, part 2 of 3
[August 2026, bringing this series to the front to celebrate KC’s decision to keep the Kellogg Building.] = = = = = Part 1 showed the essential process of electrotyping in a small-scale experimental setup. Real factories like Kellogg’s Patent Insides used bigger machines in mass production. Here again is the Kellogg building in KC,…
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Electrotyping, part 3 of 3
[August 2026, bringing this series to the front to celebrate KC’s decision.] After the type is set into a form, suitable for ordinary printing, the electrotype process begins by smashing the form into a thin layer of wax on a metal plate. The metal plate will become the negative electrode in the plating vat. The…
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Bit of syntax fun
Seen at substack, wasn’t meant to be funny so I didn’t snark it there. Word order is important, and singular/plural agreement is important! Some mayflies live only hours as adults, Kevin McMullen MD writes, after having lived for years as a nymph.
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Candidate worth supporting
Manweller’s rule says elections aren’t allowed to change things, so I’m sure this one won’t work. Nevertheless, Natalie Poulson is a viable candidate for state legislature after this week’s top-two primary. She was a teacher until 2021 when she refused to wear the Trump-Inslee strangulation device and refused to force her students to strangle. She…
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Zinger
I haven’t been reading MindMatters for a long time. Busy with work, health troubles, didn’t see a lot of interesting stuff there. Checked again today. Denyse O’Leary has written a world-class zinger. She knocks out Ethan Siegel, a world-class contemptuous asshole, and by extension all the academicians, politicians and journalists who play the same obnoxious…
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Abbottizing
The firefighters talk about halting new sources of ignition but they’re missing the MAIN source of ignition. Texas governor Abbott solved a similar problem with fake “asylum seekers”. He reshipped them all to NYC so the people who claim to love them could have them. Time to apply the Abbott trick here. Evacuate the entire…
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Having fun
Trying to break away from the fire crap. Altman is invading the world with theft, and the world is doing a pretty good job of fighting back now. Locally, Avista was negotiating with an unnamed prospective customer, then sensibly decided to halt. Al French, a long-lasting county commissioner who is usually rational, was trying to…
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Bet on a bet
I’ll go out on a (so far unburned) limb with this one. Premise 1. Arsonists are at work in several areas, not just the Catholic Criminalities zone west of the river. Some of them are clearly homeless or crazy, some are driving cars. Some are using matches, some using blowtorches, some tossing lit plastic bottles…
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Unsurprising but satisfying
Given activities in recent years, the chance of criminal arson for Saturday’s fire was somewhere between 100.00000% and 100.00000%. Now the bet is verified. Via Spokesman, Aaron Forrest Farinacci has been arrested for causing the Old Trails fire that destroyed 700 structures. He lived in the Catholic Criminalities homeless apts, which is (only coincidentally) the…
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Immodest proposal.
Fire-prone cities should have permanent shelters. In the cold war every city had a permanent fallout shelter in a civic building, stocked with fuel, generator, canned water, and nonperishable food. Since nuclear attacks were a Deepstate myth, the shelters were never used, but the government kept them ready. Those shelters also served as tornado shelters…
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Alligator / 0
The AI demons keep preaching about TheSingularityTM. They’re inverting the meaning to attract satanic investors. In math a singularity is a point on a graph where you can’t figure an answer. The result is heading toward infinity, or toward 0/0, or some other value that can’t be calculated or handled or conceived. When a real…
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Schadenfreude is sweet
Even the inconceivably brainless and incomprehensibly evil Spokane “city” dysgovernment has to face finite budget limits. They hired a whole pack of utterly pointless symbolic creatures to send a “resistance” message to Trump, while simultaneously AMPLIFYING Trump’s worst crime in history and ferociously continuing the worst crime in history for two years after Trump got…
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Plug in lawyer joke here
Via Spokesman: Fucked-up software prevented 645 new lawyers from taking the bar exam IN PERSON. = = = = = START QUOTE: For about 11 weeks, Guile had studied for the exam, which consists of three three-hour blocks and typically takes two days to complete. But after the Washington State Bar Association canceled the test…
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Reported full moon reported!
Via Spokane News. 800 North Sullivan Rd, vehicle collision in the drive through line reported. Reported a vehicle with a person dressed as an oversized bear on the top of a vehicle did not see the other vehicle and hit them. Caller thinks one driver is possibly intoxicated. Reported the occupants of both vehicles are…
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