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What old houses think
I’ve always been an animist, not a human exceptionalist. I’m pretty sure all animals and plants are conscious, and fairly sure that some inanimate things can acquire souls. This cartoon from a 1926 architecture journal does a damn good job of expressing what old houses (and old humans and old dogs) think.
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Probably a good thing
According to “news”, the Selective Service will start registering men automatically when they hit 18. “News” sources are treating this as bad because it happened while Trump was in office. It’s a safe bet that the agency has been planning this move for a long time. The change is actually GOOD in context of existing…
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Misses everything
Via NiemanLab, “local” “news” sources are trying to organize and collaborate. They held a Local News Day yesterday. WordPress put together a supposed list of local news sources outside the mainstream. It misses everything in Spokane. The only thing listed is rangemedia.co, allegedly “regional”. I looked there and found the standard DNC talking points. You…
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Bravo to Festus!
Many cities and states and countries are rejecting Altman’s demand to take over their minds and water and electricity. Festus joined the trend. Festus is a familiar place. One of my engineer uncles lived there for a while, and my old friend Larry also lived there for a while. It’s good to see a declining…
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Can’t be selective
The current “pope” started strong by opposing Altman. I looked at him favorably for a while. Then he continued the church’s previous demonic Gaia-worship, and continued the church’s immigrant invasion. Now he opposes our war on Persia. A church is supposed to give us a consistent guideline for morality. Two positions favoring normal people and…
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Tab-ulation
This item was spawned by thinking about Tabs, Tabulations and Tables. I’m leading toward a specific point, but first need to spit out some Graphic Juice that I’ve been holding during this long unimaginative ADA work. = = = = = For several months I’ve been making and testing courseware blind-style, using only the keyboard.…
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Mafia “arrangements”
Polymarket and Kalshi are Mafias. They run betting rackets, and they openly and proudly sponsor hitman contracts and mercenary wars. Now they’re dividing up the economy in the same way that competing old-fashioned gangs divided up a city. Betting Mafias are different from the VC crime that has destroyed the country since 1980. Private equity…
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Repurposing Ludlow
American Radio Library has added a collection of old RCA magazines aimed at employees. One of them shows how the magazine itself is printed. Most of the steps are familiar; one is an unusual transitional technology. These panels show (1) Photographs (2) Varityping (3) Fototype, the unusual gimmick (4) Offset layout. The Fototype uses a…
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Grumbling
Maybe ordinary customers might appreciate AI if it EVER worked to make things easier for us. All the major platforms are using it now, and they NEVER use big data to screen out crap or streamline our computer use. Every single use of AI adds MORE crap that we have to filter out on our…
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Brownstone does Parkinson
I got tired of the Brownstone bunch. Their founder did a fine job of exposing the Bush background of the Trump holocaust. The organization turned into a mutual admiration club for independent-sounding elites. Now Brownstone is sending out a sales pitch for more support. It says three things. (1) The “virus” holocaust is done, which…
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China picks up the slack
When we started our monstrously demonic war on Venezuela and Persia, I wondered why China was silent. China is a big customer of both countries. In the last 10 years China has been demonstrating REAL capitalism, building its own infrastructure, cultivating its suppliers and helping them to develop their own infrastructure. FDR would be proud.…
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Gamers hate it
At this point it appears that the AI bubble is well on the way to popping. Altman has backed away from his video-sucking Sora because it simply wasn’t making any money. After six months its net income was only about two million. You can’t sustain a multi-trillion bubble with the same revenue stream as ONE…
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Better metaphor
Tracing down one last bug before sending the project out for first testing. Previously I used the modern yak shaving fable for this process. This time my internal jukebox automatically sang the correct fable: Metametaphor: The song itself is a recursive function representing a real-life recursion, and it ends the way all REAL recursive functions…
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Bomb vs build
NASA is foolishly wasting money on returning human pilots to moon orbit, basically redoing what we could do in 1962. They no longer build their own technology. They’re using Microsoft Surface laptops, made in China and designed primarily to boost Sam Altman’s Share Value to the moon. The Surface laptops lost contact, though the other…
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An old-fashioned disaster
Noticed this at Spokane News page: 29900 West Jacobs Rd, technical rescue reported. For an adult female who fell in a well and is trapped. The address isn’t in the Spokane metro, it’s way out in wheat country near Reardan. I didn’t think water wells were fallable now. I’ve lived in houses with wells, just…
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