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Copying the New Deal
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump did the evilest thing in 70 years, and the most widespread evil in all of human history. In his second term his admin is doing the standard American evil things like bombing foreign countries and enriching…
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Verrrry uninteresting and pointless
Reading the McAlester architecture book triggered a pointless new thought, which no human will read. The book carefully distinguishes between folk and non-folk styles. Non-folk is the unmarked default. Victorian vs Folk Victorian, Italianate vs Folk Italianate. New thought for me, undoubtedly old for others… This distinction is clearcut in all realms of creative products.…
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Last straw.
When Greatest Satan Bush was allowed to be an “author” on Substack it was ALMOST enough to push me out. But he isn’t PART of the business, he’s just allowed to be there. (Or more precisely his media minions are there.) His presence doesn’t directly contaminate my transactions. Polymarket is the last straw. = =…
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Verrrry interestink but pointless
This is an interesting development but it won’t make any difference because it’s only in two states. Legislatures in NY and Mass are trying to put limits on web connected devices, requiring manufacturers to make specific promises and keep the promises. = = = = = START QUOTE: 1. Disclose a minimum guaranteed support timeframe…
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Make beauty, seek beauty
A couple more pictures from the little book of St Joe houses. This house isn’t grand or imposing, it’s beautiful up close. The closeup catches details of the terracotta filigrees that you wouldn’t see from Googlemap or even from driving or walking by it. You also wouldn’t see this living detail on a carefully maintained…
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Why I bought a house
From Spokane News: 900 East Sitka Ave, Assault Reported. Reported male cut a hole through his apartment into another apartment and was caught by the resident in the other apartment. Police arrived and male fought with Police and now detained. The new Facebook explainer bots don’t offer any fake explanations or point-missing fake questions about…
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Speaking of Bush…
Lately I’ve been noticing an inrush of familiar old neocons into Substack, the folks who used to write for National Review, then wrote the first generation of neocon blogs like Pajamas Media and Hot Air. Now the head builder of wars and torture camps has joined. Bush himself has a newsletter. The Great Satan, the…
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Gig torture
Listening to this Evan Barker podcast as background noise spawned a new thought. Around the 30 minute point they’re talking about the horrors of 2020. = = = = = Old thought: I constantly shout the verified proven truth. 2020 was a worldwide torture camp planned by Bush and implemented by Trump. For decades right-flavored…
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You already have what you need
Reprint from 2021, linked in previous. = = = = = START REPRINT: One of the small pleasures of life is pulling an ace from your sleeve. One of the BIG pleasures is creating independence and self-sufficiency, defeating the all-consuming Github. I use Poser intensively for work and play, for courseware animations and blog stuff…
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Wow, that’s unimpressive.
Yesterday I was noticing some “instant animation” by one of Altman’s drug sellers. First thought: Wow, that’s impressive! Second thought: Wait. 3d programs like Poser and Blender could do that sort of thing a long time ago. And I was writing Python programs to automate those moves 20 years ago. Natural facial expressions, natural body…
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Same arrangement!
Still trying to find pictures of my St Joe Folly House, I bought a little book assembled by the Museum Hill Historical Society. It doesn’t include THE house, but it does include this one with a tantalizingly similar secret tunnel. Transcribing: An enormous secret tunnel that once led to the Nunning Brewery can still be…
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It wasn’t just a fucking idea.
Gizmodo features a rebirth of the nickel-iron battery. About goddamn time. Unfortunately the authors totally miss the real history. Their headline says Edison tried to build an EV battery in 1901. Scientists just made it work.: = = = = = START QUOTE: Great minds often think ahead of their time. This was certainly true…
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Balancing the vectors
Most of us can’t do anything about Altman’s crime. Publishers are in a unique position, able to make an economic difference to Altman’s minions. Publishers are caught between two countervectors. On one side they recognize that many authors are already wired up to Altman’s machine. On the other side they recognize that Altman is a…
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Wrexperts
Previous items about guilds, and Lampert steering Sears into the iceberg, reminded me of a previous highly productive line of thought. Rehashing a couple pieces written in Feb 2020, just before Bush and Trump hijacked and wrecked the entire world. = = = = = I was thinking and reading about the remarkable continuity of…
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Where is the advertising guild?
I got an email from an organization called West’s Awake. It sounds like something I might want to support. It also sounds familiar and might be something I supported in the past. I won’t check the links because it could easily be a scam. If it’s a real organization, it just missed the chance to…
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