Author: polistra
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Big point from Kirn
Kirn makes a HUGE and NEW and SALIENT point, around 15 minutes into the weekly discussion with Taibbi. Paraphrasing: I don’t know how the people who profit from the internet expect it to keep going when it has become nothing but a giant elephant trap. Every time you write a word, you are placing yourself…
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“Dream” come true!
EDIT: OOPS, IT WAS A JOKE AGAIN. THE DATE WAS RELEVANT AFTER ALL. But the process is unfortunately real now, whether it’s triggered by a button in Daz or not. ============================= Daz, one of the big CG toolmakers, has finally achieved the “dream” of artists. The Make Art button. With the Make Art Daz Studio…
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Reprint on science as entertainment
From Dec 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: Science is simply a form of entertainment, and we should treat it as entertainment. We should fund it the same way we fund sports or museums or orchestras or ‘serious’ theater, via season ticket holders. Big media is NOT entertainment and doesn’t fall into this…
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Stockman hits it.
Stockman hits it hard. Most of the “antis” have always defended Trump in a half-hearted way, claiming that he was fooled or bamboozled into committing the biggest crime in history. Nonsense. Trump was always a demon and a gangster, and he was specifically an OCD demon. So he jumped at the opportunity to kill and…
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Same tactics
More clarity on the “anti” AI petition, which is obviously an attempt to snatch control of the process. From the belly of the WEF beast: Elon is the prime mover behind this petition. Interpretation: Elon founded OpenAI and now he wants to take it back. The petition will drive down the share price so he…
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Gold rushes and calligraphy
Following on my musings about cattle drives. The 1850s gold rush populated and shaped California, and also created another temporary development before the railroads pushed through. Look at the Copperplate cursive on these letters sent back East by prospectors. Almost indecipherable to modern eyes but highly expressive. These men were not poor or uneducated. It…
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Peculiar typo
All the headlines about yesterday’s election of Trump misspell the word elect. They all say “Trump indicted by Grand Jury”. Some stories say that other agencies are annoyed at the NYC jury, because the other agencies want to be the first to elect Trump. Again these stories misspell elect as indict for some mysterious reason.…
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She should be using her talents
The BreakingPoints folks are chuckling at Chris Christie’s attempt to get into the Repooflican contest. Christie is trying to sell his gangster credentials as the one man who can outdo Trump in Pro Wrestling dirty talk. BP correctly observes that NOBODY can possibly beat Trump. He has always been the master of crude criminal nastiness,…
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Not mysterious
Via BigPulpit, here’s one Roman blogger who gets it. As a stock Young Person on the Internet who is plugged in to both Catholic twitter and baseball twitter, I’m astounded at how frequently I see one tweet from, say, a fellow Padres fan ragging on a Dodgers fan, scroll down a few tweets, and see…
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Parallel hierarchies
Continuing the theme of corporate genes vs epigenes. GM developed its hierarchy late in life. At first Billy Durant was just buying up companies because he enjoyed buying up stuff. After DuPont took over, Sloane lined up the random companies into a hierarchy of price. Acquisition was the gene, organized hierarchy was an epigene. Ford…
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Wide open field
Great example of the more or less positive side of AI. One Redditor asked ChatGPT to write a poem about bitcoin. The result is excellent poetry. Full of meaning, solid rhyme and rhythm, reaching a persuasive climax. Reminds me of Longfellow. Humans abandoned poetry 100 years ago. Absolutely nobody is writing poetry now, so the…
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Pearson refuses to correlate
Continuing to read the 1905 Literary Digest… Karl Pearson, the master of stats, has a strangely familiar complaint. “At least 50 per cent of the observations made and the data collected are worthless, and no man, however able, could deduce any result from them at all. In engineer’s language we need to scrap about 50…
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Probably meaningless
Random meaningless observation. I stopped following and reading the ‘data-gatherers’ when they turned into Gaians and partisan political cheerleaders. They’re ferociously supporting Trump, THE MAN WHO GAVE US LOCKDOWNS AND BALLGAGS AND NEEDLES. Instead, I started following and subscribing to writers who are trying to focus on the bigger picture, which might be called ‘spiritual’…
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Back to Hanover
Charles continues to reactivate the natural power of the monarchy, which Elizabeth allowed to lapse. This week he chose not to visit Paris because of the riots, and instead visited Berlin, where he gave a speech in fluent German to the Parliament. This is a return to pre-1900 alliances. The Hanovers were a German family,…
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Was it always unnecessary?
The 2020 “virus” may or may not exist, but it is unquestionably an UNNECESSARY ENTITY. All of the “measures” prescribed by the Public Death Demons are the EXACT OPPOSITE of all precautions and preventions and cures of all diseases. 2020 is explicitly designed to cure life. Demons see life as a disease which needs to…
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