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Beauty wins
Linked in previous, rehashed for emphasis. Modern artists, especially the ones who get subsidized and supported by governments, view themselves as Coyote the Trickster, obliged to play nasty and expensive pranks on the dumb yokels. A vicious monster named Dale Eldred was based in Kansas City. His cruelest joke was played on the downtown development…
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Irresistible metaphor
Reading about Obama’s new Archive, funded by the Tech Lords and banksters as payback for the 2009 bailout. The main building reminds me irresistibly of a USB type common during Obama’s term. Modern architects make buildings look like something else, thus destroying the usefulness of the building. The form of this particular USB would lend…
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This is SMART.
I enjoy seeing people use what they have. Too often businesses will bet on billion-dollar expansions or billion-dollar subsidies to accomplish something that they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Via Nieman, newspapers and magazines have been abandoning book reviews for 20 years, LONG before Trump or AI. Most complainers want to get rid…
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It’s not a balance
Saw a title: Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 2 Well, I can fill in both parts without reading it. Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 1: It’s Why nobody’s listening to new music, part 2: Shit. The same goes for new literature, new art, new movies, new philosophy…. anything in the field…
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Life in the cracks (honorary)
I’ll declare today Honorary Life in the Cracks Day, though it’s not the real thing.. I make the same storetrip every week and wait for the bus in the same places on each end, so I have time to look closely at houses, plants and cars. The weekly interval lets me calibrate changes. Google Streets…
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What happened to Flash?
Somebody on Substack showed a 2005 online issue of The Onion, done entirely in FLV and SWF. The issue was a prophecy of 2025. They missed the basic point that Flash itself would be “outlawed” by the tech lords. I’ve never understood why Flash needed to be “outlawed.” Allegedly it was “vulnerable”, but we know…
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Headline vs actual
Why you should be careful about “BREAKING NEWS”. First report: East Second Ave and South Custer Rd, reported a male was cutting down tree branches when a branch knocked a power line down when falling. Reported the male was electrocuted in the process. Reported the power line is down and sparking. Oh no! That’s awful!…
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Odd assumption
Reading the Reddit subsection for Post Office employees. Some of them got into an insult session against Boomers. Probably not wise to publicly rag on your last loyal customers. They see us as blank and mindless, which is how every generation sees the previous group of wrinklies. It’s simply true. Age stiffens the skin and…
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Same old game
I see Tulsi is playing a standard Deepstate game again. As she leaves the top Deepstate job of DNI, she pretends to reveal some truths about the “virus”. She’s continuing the fake Lab Leak shit, treating the origin of the “virus” as the only important question. In the first place, Deepstate NEVER gives information. When…
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This guy makes sense.
The Spokesman is running short features on the dozen Auditioners trying their hand at running for a major office. This one makes a lot of sense. Michael McGarr was an Air Force mechanic, then an air traffic controller, then a copy editor for most of his career, ending up at the Spokesman itself. Mechanic to…
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Skill matters more than facts
Via Reuters. A hacking group has exposed a huge batch of “secret information” from Novo Nordisk, the Ozempic company, asking for $25 million ransom. Apparently they worked through a Github area where Novo stored some of its code. The usual sides are saying the usual things. Lawyers are setting up class action suits to “compensate”…
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Sue for maintaining extreme danger
We had an ordinary windstorm yesterday, hardly worth calling a storm. Three hours of winds around 10g35. It didn’t cause any power outages, didn’t knock down any trees. The Weather Bureau gave out a Red Flag Warning because conditions in trees and brush are ripe for fast fire spread. Avista did its part in preparing,…
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Bird == dinosaur
Everything we learned in school was wrong. The majority of those “facts” were known to be shit at the time when we were learning them. An especially big piece of shit: Intelligent adaptable mammals defeated dinosaurs. Dinosaurs went extinct because they were big and stupid. This is still part of conventional wisdom, still used as…
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Taking back lost territory
It’s good to see one publication returning to the RESOURCES of paper and press. Other RESOURCES are unused in recent decades. Printers allowed digital to capture those tricks and didn’t try to take them back. 1. NYTimes has started using its especially talented presses and pressmen to print full-page or triple-page works of art. A…
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