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Astrolabes in the news!
Astrolabes don’t hit the headlines often, to put it mildly. Here’s a news item about a newly discovered connection of an old astrolabe. = = = = = START QUOTE: As Gigante began to study the astrolabe – a scientific tool which dates from 11th century Spain and is used to chart stars and other…
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Hell freezes twice!
First Frisco, now even DC!!!!! The city of DC is starting to get serious about crime. = = = = = START QUOTE: The bill will make it easier for judges to order adults and some juveniles to be detained while they await trial for violent offenses, expand the definition of carjacking so cases are…
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Biggest point-miss ever
This is so fucking dumb it’s not even worth taking apart. The difference between digital and analog is ENTIRELY OUTSIDE the weirdass Turing shit in this non-argument. Living analog intelligence works by negative feedback, not by marking ones and zeros. Negative feedback is the crucial ingredient, not a bizarre theoretical limitation which doesn’t even connect…
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Puzzling but wonderful
Adding another random thought to this theme: = = = = = START REPRINT: The teams are getting narrower and narrower and more specialized, in all fields. In pro athletics, every game or race is between two identical performers who are at the top of their range, and the difference has to be measured in…
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Hell freezes over
Alt headline: Why newspapers are failing. San Francisco “voted” solidly against crime and for police yesterday. Hell is officially frozen. The local “newspaper” declared that the people had gone crazy and the city was no longer tolerable for journalists. = = = = = START QUOTE: The San Francisco Chronicle declared its hometown “can no…
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TIL it wasn’t the iceberg
One of those fun fillers at MSN gave us a bunch of things we learned in high school that turned out to be false. Since EVERYTHING we learned was false, and most of the lies were already known AT THAT TIME to be false, this is a low bar. Some of these I already caught…
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You first, asshole.
Listening again to Spencer Cox of the Niceness Initiative. He says the governors all get along fine. We’ve heard recently that the Supreme Black-robed Demons get along fine. That’s the problem, not the solution. The inner party gets along. When they decide to imprison and strangle the peasants, they all move together in perfect unison.…
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Firmly in charge
Pointed via Denyse as usual, the Multiple Personality shit is enjoying a resurgence. Apparently the new version is closely tied to “gender” transformations as you might expect. MPD is a cult. Nothing less. I saw it up close in the late 70s. A therapist who “multiplied” people had a part-time faculty position at Phillips and…
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Back to Maragha again 1/2
I’m trying to reconnect with inspiration after a long dull winter. I’m mostly old and weary after four years of world holocaust, and partly distracted by “hurry up and wait” dealings with my courseware publisher. The project is all done now, so I no longer have to keep my mental desk clear for sudden final…
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Back to Maragha again 2/2
Continued from part 1. Christoph Scheiner’s magnum opus is Rosa Ursina, published in 1620. The title, roughly the Bear’s Rose, is an extremely poetic and sycophantic dedication to his patron, Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. The bear, of course, is the patron’s name, and Scheiner waxes lyrical about the vast mind and infinite morality and…
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MTS?
Rushfield puts out his annual State Of The Entertainment Industry message. He holds out some theoretical vain hope, based solely on the imbalance between demand and supply. Everyone wants entertainment, and the outsiders are supplying it adequately. Hollywood lost its chance a long time ago, just as the “journalism” industry lost its chance earlier and…
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Demonic constant, fake variable
Oregon is recriminalizing hard drugs after decriminalizing for three years. This is a good move but as always with legislatures it’s a fake move. Constants and variables! Fentanyl is a city-ending plague EVERYWHERE, not just where drugs are decriminalized. Every city has the same genocide. Portland is no worse than Philly or Spokane or NYC.…
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Immediate example
Here’s a good example of the defector rule I was discussing in previous item. This author is trying to say that Deepstate is not as powerful as we think. Specifically, Deepstate has been warning the rest of the government that the war in Ukraine is pointless and unwinnable. He starts with one blatant lie and…
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Canceling = Missionary work
I always understood one end of canceling thanks to my father’s advice. He explained in the ’60s that college faculty who were fired for “communism” were actually fired for ordinary personal reasons. Unproductive faculty could be fired honestly. When the department head simply disliked the employee, he couldn’t write “I don’t like him” on an…
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