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Credit where due
Now that the courseware world is mostly turning to Canvas, my publisher set up a paid testbed account, which was a long and tangled process. Canvas is the fussiest of the various learning systems, so a fully usable testbed there will be sufficient for the other more resilient systems. I no longer need the generic…
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If you have to verify…
Dembski writes about his experience with LLM crap. He claims that AI is a “useful assistant”, which means he’s already addicted to the crap. He admits that it’s only useful if you take the time to verify all of its claims and citations, most of which are fantasy. Well then, why bother? The old-fashioned secretary…
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New ESL Sucker
This is the champion Sucker Filter for stupid click-gathering spam. In recent years the English has improved a bit, but not this one. = = = = = START QUOT-BE: Your Account Prime well-be Remove Today ! Dear Prime Costumer, Your Subscription has expired! Your Subscription for Prime expired on Wed,03 Apr-2024 We tried to…
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Why so innocent?
Younger activists are more innocent and shockable than we were in the ’60s. Even though we had MUCH less information available, we talked and rumored and gossiped among ourselves and figured out who was a nark or a spy. We understood Agents Provocateurs, we knew who was an Agent, and we tried to warn each…
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Not up to Capone standards
Trump’s gangster training and innate gangster nature show up in EVERYTHING he does. He commits crimes every second. He brings in foolish accomplices who believe he’s Jesus. Then he fires the accomplices and either sues them or jails them when each criminal enterprise fails. Unlike his mentor Roy Cohn who led the NYC Mafia for…
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At the moment…
At the moment this strikes me as a pretty good metaphor. In the crazy countries birthrate is declining FAST. Youngsters aren’t interested in reproducing. Lots of explanations are offered. Some are sensible, some are stupidly partisan. It’s all Trump’s fault or it’s all Biden’s fault. Simpler: Nature takes care of business. This is cultural menopause.…
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More actual change!
When a person ALREADY IN POWER changes course, things move. Until now, Jerome Powell was the only current example of this rule. Now JK Rowling has joined. Via BBC: The idiots who tried to declare an obvious lie as law have backed down in the face of Rowling’s commercial popularity and unrelenting firmness. Rowling has…
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An actual change?
Oregon recriminalizes drugs! This won’t immediately solve the fentanyl problem, because the problem is equally bad in states that DIDN’T decriminalize. But it signals a shift in political mood among the crazy devils who misrule this part of the country. One part of the law COULD lead toward a solution: = = = = =…
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Is it a problem?
Most of our institutions have rejected their own customers. This is described as a problem. In most cases it’s not a problem at all. When a business (eg Bud Light) offends its customers, the pressure of profit corrects the error. As long as QE/ZIRP was providing endless cash input via Share Value, the natural feedback…
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Donating
Continuing the theme of Trump as LBO artist and gangster. Every company or country he touches goes bankrupt so he can grab the assets. Even if he DOESN’T grab the assets the company or country goes bankrupt. The Ankler included these numbers in one of their articles about developments in the media business: = =…
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RFK’s subversion in action
When RFK, a major Gaian leader, jumped into the anti-lockdown movement, I knew immediately that his purpose was evil. He succeeded. The antivaxers are now working for CDC! The antivaxers are making normal public health illegal. That’s exactly what CDC and WHO and Fauci and Mecher and Trump and Biden are doing. The latest example…
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Verifying a recommendation
Just reinforcing a recommendation. Yasuko’s gluteus technique for relieving lower back pain continues to work. I’ve tried it three times now and it worked every time. Too often I jump to conclusions about post-hoc “methods” that work once but fail on the second try, which means they’re just correlations. After three successful tries, I’m confident…
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Good goddamn question.
It’s the first of the month, so the drug overdoses and Narcan uses are coming in fast. One commenter: Just wondering why we have an endless supply of narcan, but we have shortages on necessary medications for the rest of us middle class hard working families?? Ridiculous. Yup.
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Good for Master, not good for colony
Wolf shows graphs beautifully illustrating our Resource Colony status. Despite all the enviro loony publicity, underground coal production has been about steady since 1960. Surface mining rose tremendously from 1960 to 2002, then dropped back to 1960. We haven’t stopped PRODUCING at all, which is very good for the coal industry and the states where…
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It’s all April 1 all the time now
Last week I wrote: = = = = = START QUOTE: On the other end of McDaniel we see another LBO. She was kicked out of RNC by Trump, who wanted to implant his own mistress as head of RNC. Trump is an LBO artist from the start, or in other words a gangster. He…
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