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Zimbabwe’s Powell
Bloomberg has a new podcast series on Africa, which is highly appropriate. Africa is where the world is changing for the better. Africa is the future. This short feature is about Zimbabwe’s new central bank head, and his new attempt at a stable currency. The new unit is firmly tied to gold. Too soon to…
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Soft power reprint
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. Soft motors, soft governments Following immediately on the Surace dystopia. When all the carefully designed feedback mechanisms of culture and government have been ripped out or paralyzed by the Goldman virus, is there any hope? Probably not, but here’s a half-formed thought. Returning to an earlier realization, triggered rather…
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The good part
Yet another boring and repetitive piece of evidence that “journalists” are utterly incapable of handling reality. They continue to pretend that they want to be read and trusted. Every word they write reveals their real attitude. They don’t want to be read or trusted. Maximum distrust and disgust among the Neanderthals is the Quality Control…
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Foy vs Elon
Since I’m having fun with Elon cultists, here’s a beautiful example of tech thinking vs human thinking. The grotesquely dangerous CBRTRK has unsurprisingly turned out to be dangerous to its idiot buyers. The front trunk, like everything on the mobile sword, has sharp edges. The frunk, also like everything on the mobile sword, is fully…
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The purpose of Libertarians
From a delicious report on the current state of Elon cultists: = = = = = START DELICIOUS: He claims the recording was made at a Los Angeles Tesla supercharger station that is underequipped — with just five or six chargers, two of which are designated for handicapped use — for the high demand in…
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Worth watching
Vivek’s latest interview is worth watching. He’s talking with Darren Beattie, an academic in political science who was Trump’s speechwriter for a while. Beattie, like Vivek, is a HARDASS realist. Beattie sees things from a high-level perspective that feels ‘over my head’ at times, but I always listen when a speaker demonstrates total Machiavellian realism…
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What do they really owe?
Compact mag says colleges owe students transparency about the actions and investments of their endowments. Maybe, but that’s not the FIRST thing colleges owe students. For 70 years all media and culture and corporations have been falsely advertising college as necessary for life and work. Purely false, and most parents and youngsters have figured it…
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Still trying to settle this…
I’m uncertain about the FTC ban on non-compete agreements. My consistent theme is STORAGE, which includes amortizing skills. If a company has paid an inventor or developer while he worked up a device or program or design for the company, the business should be able to protect the skill they paid to develop. Patents and…
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Reprint on preserving
Ran across this 2015 item when looking for something else I’d written about McBee cards. It’s not really relevant to McBee, just a thought worth preserving about thoughts worth preserving. The importance of STORAGE in all realms is among my constant themes. = = = = = Why not store reality as reality? Something called…
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Reminds us
The intensely British Abi Roberts reminded me of an aspect of the 2020 holocaust that needs to be remembered. We’ll never know the answers, but this question is pivotal. When all countries except Belarus and Tanzania began the holocaust on the same day with the same set of “measures” and “phases” and “subphases”, there was…
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Great headline but wrong.
Dan Rather fought the truth and won, and the media never recovered From the NY Post, the master of hard-hitting headlines. = = = = = START QUOTE: Yes, Rather was forced out at CBS for his disastrous reporting on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, in which he relied on fabricated documents to allege…
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Lots of buzz, no ring
The latest NewSuperstitionist has a big headline about a cure for tinnitus. I read it eagerly, but the article doesn’t live up to its billing. First, the finding is only about noise-induced tinnitus, which isn’t my problem. I first noticed the ringing around age 8, long before I was exposed to noise, and the baseline…
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Modern-sounding in 1951
Linked in previous about Mooers and information tech, worth a reprint. This was written in 2017 at the start of the FUCKTRUMP vs SUCKTRUMP era. Now the only “information” available is either FUCKTRUMP or SUCKTRUMP. You have to pick a side. You can’t be off the playing field. = = = = = START 2017…
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Old advice for “journalists”
In reading about McBee-type card systems, ran across Calvin Mooers. He was one of the more interesting characters of early computing. I’ll feature his Zatocard system later, but first want to write up his best-known observation: An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a…
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Sign of sanity
A new survey by Pew checks feelings about the Tech Tyrants. Not much difference between R and D on this question. = = = = = START PEW: Republicans and lean-Republicans (84%) are more likely than Democrats and lean-Democrats (74%) to think these companies have too much political power. And while Republicans’ opinions have changed…
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