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Fairness Dayctrine
Today is Copyright Law Day. Today is Public Domain Day. Great idea! Simplify the thousands of stupid Days and Weeks and Months by placing opposite causes on the same day. Black History Month and White History Month together. Sugar Week and Vinegar Week together. Dwarf Awareness Month and Giant Awareness Month together. lowercase day and…
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Amazing!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!
This happened a month ago but I just heard about it. Alberta, which is Canada’s Texas, has effectively seceded from the national government’s Gaian lunacy. Canada’s fairly recent constitution makes provincial sovereignty clear, and the prairie provinces have exercised more sovereignty than US states for quite a while. This is a BEAUTIFUL development. Unlike Texas,…
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30 year pattern
Noticed there’s a fairly precise 30 year interval between the Deepstate coups I find interesting. 1855: Terrorists sent to Kansas to start the Color Revolution against Dixie. 1885: US intervenes in Panama, creating a precedent and roadmap for all future interventions. Shortly afterward, Sherburne Hopkins takes over the Central America franchise on behalf of the…
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New thought on an old subject
Or at least a new emphasis. From the start of this blog in 2005 I’ve been hammering on the superstition of “climate”. Before 1975, people who thought they could influence the weather by prayer and ritual were superstitious primitives. Before 1975, people who treated the weather as a complex pattern of natural cycles were scientists.…
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Capsule headline
The bitcoin website Protos has followed the opposite path to bait-and-switch. They started pure pro-crypto, then seemingly learned from the failure of every single “company” and “startup” and “coin”. Now Protos is casting an appropriately jaundiced eye. This headline is wonderful: Autism may be the only asset left for 3AC founders after $1B frozen The…
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Always the bait-n-switch
Pieces by journalists trying to fix journalism always fail. Right in the middle of pretending to avoid Machiavelli and avoid fake divisions, they spill their true side, which is always the same side. This piece by Amanda Ripley gets off to a great start, listing all the sins of fake dividers and counseling how to…
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Boring.
Substack is declining faster and faster as its algorithm roars down the Superstar road. For the last two weeks EVERY SINGLE ITEM in the Twitteroid Notes has been a retweet and comment of something written by John Carter. That’s all. The alleged purpose of Notes was to provide an overview of what’s happening and who’s…
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The Kay Sonagraph
Last week I animated the Maico Chromalyzer, a brilliant device that I’d never seen before. It should have been far more popular. It was simple enough that a radio amateur accustomed to dealing with tubes could have built one in a few evenings from available parts. The Kay Sonagraph was opposite in every way. It…
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Since I’m always…
Since I’m always yammering about tenure, I should mention this story, even though I don’t have enough info to mention it intelligently! News this week includes a university chancellor in Wisconsin who was fired for making porn videos with his wife. He’s suing on free speech grounds. I doubt that the suit will succeed. He…
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Silliest headline
Headline: 2024 will show us what America wants to be. Our USA TODAY Opinion team is hopeful – and worried. No it won’t. Polls consistently and strongly agree that America DOESN’T want TrumpBiden. The “election” offers us TrumpBiden, with ZERO possibility of a second choice.
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GetReligion closes
The GetReligion blog, which I’ve often read and cited here, has decided to close down in February, on the 20th anniversary of its startup. Mattingly says that their original purpose is now futile. GetReligion has always been written FOR journalists, not really FOR ordinary readers. Their commenting policy made the distinction clear. If you had…
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Tale of two Lewises
The Ankler has a sharp piece on the new movie about Leonard Bernstein. The author focuses on an important aspect of Bernstein’s later life, the cocktail party with the Black Panthers. Tom Wolfe’s account of the party became an epic for good reasons. Wolfe wasn’t quite new; Sinclair Lewis wrote a similar fictional party in…
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Wanna revolution?
Let’s say the “courts” decide Trump is ineligible because he didn’t officially halt a four hour trivial protest in one building, but the “courts” have no problem with Trump for ORDERING AND IMPLEMENTING THE BIGGEST CRIME IN HUMAN HISTORY, IMPRISONING AND STRANGLING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FOR TWO YEARS. If the “voters” give him a majority…
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The usual AI point-missing
A new startup is promising to restore trust in media and politics by providing a ‘chain of evidence’ for ads or political messages. = = = = = START QUOTE: “If you don’t actually have transparency and a level of authenticity on the images and videos you’re seeing, you could be easily misled without knowing…
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Demons live to 100
This is the year when lots of centenarian demons finally stopped slaughtering. Today: = = = = = START QUOTE: Jacques Delors, a pivotal figure in the European Union’s history and former President of the European Commission, has passed away at the age of 98. His daughter, Martine Aubry, confirmed his death to the news…
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