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Pretty good ideas!
This is a good set of proposals to rein in AI through old-fashioned copyright and licensing methods … with one exception. The article summarizes a longer report by Center for Journalism and Liberty. It defines the problem: = = = = = START QUOTE: A three-tiered market: a small number of large bilateral deals between…
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Seems just a bit unbalanced
Billions of normal law-abiding people suffer through spy-grade security checks to pay bills or read websites. Meanwhile, three separate shooters have taken potshots at the president, who supposedly has the best protection in the world. Most likely all of them were staged, for reasons we’ll never know. Were they staged to INSTRUCT us that we’re…
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Who’s smarter?
While we screech and quarrel about the latest incremental improvement in computer predictive algorithms, a lot of DRAMATIC discoveries are happening in microbiology and neurology with very little attention. One 2022 finding in microbiology was far more earthshaking than the latest increment in computers. Our official “philosophers” are pushing the curve in the other direction…
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Maybe an idea
Printing and bookbinding should try harder to compete with online. Some books do a good job of staying flat, some don’t. The two books I bought last week are examples of good and bad. Good: Hudson book. Sewn signatures, wide pages. It fits in my bookholder and lays flat without constant active intervention. It’s passive.…
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Figured it out again
Just recognized something AGAIN after forgetting it for many years. Fools constantly instruct us that social media is an echo chamber. This is brazenly and grossly false. Social platforms DO NOT give you more of what you like. They explicitly and persistently slam you with more of what you hate. The goal is to maximize…
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Makeforce reprint
Partial reprint from April 2019, a year before the chaotizers committed the biggest crime in history. = = = = = START REPRINT: Resistance is futile, but self-defense is not futile. First and most directly, don’t merge with the Cloud. Don’t take that last step, don’t place your devices into Elon’s hands. More subtly, use…
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Rare charge
Interesting because rare: A gambler was charged with cheating for using a “vibrating device” to manipulate a slot machine. Charges of cheating are surprisingly rare (less than one per year) considering that two casinos are a major industry here. I suppose casinos take care of cheaters in their own way with heavy surveillance and internal…
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Happy ADA New Year!
I just heard through an indirect channel that the government has given programmers a WHOLE NEW YEAR to fulfill the arbitrary ADA requirements. = = = = = START OFFICIAL QUOTE: By this Interim Final Rule (“IFR”), the Department of Justice (“Department”) is revising the regulations implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act…
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Krazy Krauts and Krazy Brits
All of Europe is krazy, not just the Krauts. A newly worked natural gas deposit in Britain will serve ENTIRELY to power a bitcoin thingamajig, creating nothing but fraud and suffering. Via UK Telegraph. = = = = = START KRAZY KUOTE: A giant new natural gas field in Yorkshire is to be exploited for…
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Answering an old puzzle
Bought a new Hudson book from a bookstore who DOES know how to advertise and satisfy customers. The book is by Richard Langworth, the best of the non-insider auto history writers. Other good books were by John Conde, Don Butler and Pat Foster. Each worked for Nash or Hudson at some point, so they had…
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Marketing missed
Random and pointless thought about advertising. When Max Hoffmann started importing VWs in 1949 he tried to emphasize the cool factor. Before the war he had been a luxury car dealer in Austria, so he was accustomed to moving in cool circles. The appeal didn’t work until the 60s, then it hit hard, starting in…
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Constant and variable
The US mint issued a ‘commemorative coin’ with Trump’s face. An old lawyer realized there was a law forbidding the use of living people, so he sued. Constant: Now the two “sides” are screeching at each other in the standard ways, missing the main points as always. 1. Commemorative coins aren’t currency. They’re just a…
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Duane Jones would be happy
I bought another Hudson book through Abebooks. This one came from Browse Awhile Books in Tipp City near Dayton. They included a wonderful little pack of premiums along with the book. A library-style checkout card in its envelope, and the code for discounts stamped with a library-style rubber stamp. A bookmark with the picture of…
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Bailey’s Corners vs Potterville
Picture of the Enid square around 1954 judging by the newest cars. The mix of car brands (at least in this small sample!) fits my theory of Okie oddballs. Oklahoma was settled by nonconformists, so nonconformists remained common. Nine cars visible. Two Chrysler products, one Ford, three GM, one Hudson, two Studebakers. If you selected…
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