Author: polistra
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Signs of sanity
While most commentators “left” and “right” are screaming at the central banks to turn on the counterfeit fountains again, it’s refreshing to see an establishment voice who recognizes the new situation as NORMAL and a GOOD BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. Richard Rushfield sees the end of the Share Value ESG era as the end of Big Bets…
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One non-bad thing
Matt Stoller has been trying to persuade us that anti-trust regulation is improving. I’ve been waiting for VISIBLE EVIDENCE. The antitrusters have finally provided VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE EVIDENCE, and it’s in an area I know well. EnidBuzz features Evans Drug demonstrating the new over-the-counter hearing aids, which are connected through an iPhone. Oddly enough, this…
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THE LUCITE IS GONE!
IT’S OVER. I’ve been saying from the start that I wouldn’t call the NAZI TORTURE finished until the Lucite disappears. The real purpose of the Lucite was to protect clerks and drivers from enraged concentration camp prisoners, not to “protect” anyone from “viruses”. As long as the Lucite was in place, the rest of the…
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Needs more Mach
I think this guy is genuinely puzzled, not an AP game player. He’s asking the right questions but he doesn’t know enough history. Right questions: How does DHS justify its evolving mission from countering foreign terror groups to policing domestic “disinfo” on social media? Leaked planning docs show the agency argues false information is a…
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Short about long, long about short
Continuing from previous. This week I decided to go for gold in the short radio department. Archive has a huge set of the shortest “programs” of all. Produced by the Ripley empire, each is 1:05, divided into 10 seconds of intro music, 15 seconds of Story 1, 5 seconds of expandable pause for your commercial,…
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When does short form win?
This writer on Medium makes a fairly straightforward and clear argument, with the aid of an informative graph. He gets the timeline and the constants and variables right. Facebook took over the world by expanding into every possible country, and then sat on its laurels too long. Tiktok and Instagram opened up the short-form video…
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Perfect and comprehensive definition
This is strong stuff, powerfully written. Condenses bitcoin and stocks and gambling and MLM and Ponzi into a few perfect paragraphs. I won’t dilute it by quoting. Just read it.
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Like Hank says, 2
Continuing on the theme that math doesn’t solve anything… At the same time when Elon has taken over Twitter, @Jack has started up his own Twitter alternative, which isn’t exactly a platform, more like a super-browser. @Jack is making the same basic marketing error that Brendan Eich made with his Brave browser. When you introduce…
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Like Hank says….
In a topic with very little definite (unclassified) information available, a well-regulated imagination is more important than math. Well, actually that goes for all topics. Math is not the foundation of the universe or the foundation of anything. It’s an occasionally useful descriptive tool. Here’s what happens when academicians try to discuss life on other…
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Impressive and depressive
Now that I’ve got the dull parts of the new courseware version out of the way (switching out images to adjust for changes in DRM) I’m returning to the fun part. I’m reviving and modernizing some complex programs I wrote in the ’90s, so they can be presented as ‘accessories’ to the courseware. The impressive…
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High-yield CD
The nocoiners at Reddit tend to know the ins and outs of real markets. One of them notes that Binance is a major partner in Elon’s purchase of Twitter. Binance is a sort of bridge between the allegedly “traditional” finance establishment and the allegedly “unorthodox” bitcoin world. This will add spice to Deepstate’s fake fight.…
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Wrong Great Man
Kirn: I find it interesting that just when it appeared the takeover of Twitter was inevitable & the censorship regime would end, the establishment suddenly started questioning the closing of schools during the pandemic, vacillating about the vaccines, & endorsing the lab-leak theory. Probably not. Those specific shifts are just how psychopaths work. CONSTANT FAST…
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Not quite stereo
Another item from the newly added Phonoscope magazine, an 1899 ad. Not stereo in the proper sense, but it would have given an echo effect by reading the same groove a half second later. See also.
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Do these entities have robot servants?
Elon certainly knows how to play the Delphic Black Box routine. Create a stir, make it ambiguous, watch the response. He walked into Twitter HQ carrying a bathroom sink. 99% of the media described it as a kitchen sink, following the standard cliche. Admittedly the usual two-bowl kitchen sink is harder to carry (but not…
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An entirely different story!
American Radio Library has added a large set of ‘Phonoscope’, a rather elegant magazine about the phonograph and movies and similar amusements. The August 1898 issue includes an entirely different account of Edison’s invention. The usual story is that Edison was trying to develop a visual telegraph recorder, and suddenly realized its potential. This version…
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