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Will they change the script?
This Bloomberg podcast raises an interesting point. The Biden administration has been pushing HARD for anti-trust regulation, which is an unquestionably good move. They’re even pushing harder than I would in some cases! Google has a natural monopoly on searching, acquired by doing the job far better than others. This is not predatory. At an…
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Ease and comfort
Previous item about retirement emphasized ‘ease and comfort’, a time when you don’t have to be anywhere or satisfy anyone except yourself. Strikes an immediate resonance. During the “virus” holocaust I was fighting all the time, churning out courseware and graphics, walking every day and making the hellish storetrip twice a week by bus. Now…
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Absolutely everything.
Lately I’ve been running the audio from these old film features in my bedtime playlist. Good bedtime material, halfway interesting but not noisy or dramatic. The features were written by the National Assn of Mfrs in the ’50s, and each includes a variety of industries and occupations in a sauce of capitalist propaganda. Each item…
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NHI
Another clicky story from Protos. Aiden Pleterski, who ran a pure Ponzi and stole 40 million FAST, is spending it FAST. His loot is supposedly under the control of a bankruptcy trustee, but the trustee isn’t trying very hard to stop the spending. Pleterski is jetting around the world, a new country every day, spending…
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How to increase trust
Spokane News posted one of our multiple daily overdose deaths, then added this explanation: Yes, this happens a lot in the area. True, we do not post them all. We posted this as it was called out as a cardiac arrest which calls for a very large response so we post to avoid the area.…
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Asking the same question
In this segment, around 22 minutes, Tucker and Glenn are discussing a question that I’ve been asking for a long time. Why do we hate Russia? They don’t find an answer at all, and I’ve never found a convincing answer. It’s not about “communism”. We hated Russia before it turned “communist”, and we hate it…
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But that’s the best argument…
Denyse, herself a former mainstream journalist, is writing about the death of the mainstream dinosaurs. = = = = = START QUOTE: The newsroom revolt at the New York Times also Canceled Bari Weiss, the staffer who edited Cotton’s piece. Weiss, now a well-known — and largely independent — commentator, summed up the change back…
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Could help with AI cases
Via Protos, Facebook has settled and paid a lawsuit about misuse of faces and names. Wissam al-Mana, a Qatar billionaire who was once married to Janet Jackson, sued Facebook for running bitcoin scam (redundant) ads that implied he was endorsing or running the scam. Legal handling of such ads is based on Adverse Possession, similar…
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Was it possible?
While rambling about subscription vs advertising, I observed that Substack opened a door that was already available. Subscription-based media is far older than ad-based, and subscriptions were always possible on the web. A few might have tried it, but the attempts were so weak that nobody noticed until Substack showed it could be profitable for…
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Must be a new century
The ACLU supported an unfashionable cause exactly once in its nasty tyrannical history, and has been riding on its fake reputation as a paragon of fairness and balance ever since. Now they’re supporting an unfashionable cause again! GetReligion explores the mystery. The well-known Christian group Wallbuilders tried to sell an ad to the DC transit…
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Good clarifier
Nate Silver, the meta-pollster, writes a great clarifier on the current positions, and the current trends, of political labels. He does an especially good job describing the Woke category. Here he gets close to a major fact about universities but doesn’t see it or doesn’t say it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Social…
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Recapturing downtown
Enid has done a great job of revitalizing its downtown after letting it decay in the ’90s. Various neighborhoods have always organized Xmas light shows. Now the downtown is bringing in fancy drone-based fireworks. Nice use of modern tech. It still takes a lot of physical work to equip the drones with colored LEDs, lay…
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Breaking Westphalia
Continuing the theme of pathological abstraction. Northern rebellion and Southern secession, written in 1904 by Ewing, answers and verifies several of my long-running questions. Ewing covers the Kansas terrorists in fine detail, verifying my historical and personal conclusions. Ewing also looks closely at the process of federation in 1776. He finds that the 13 colonies…
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Percy also predicted…
I’ve been repeatedly advertising Walker Percy’s 1971 ‘Love in the Ruins’ as the precise dystopian prediction of 2020. In his strange mystical way he managed to predict all relevant points. Smartphones intentionally crazifying us, Neuralink, “merciful” eugenics aimed especially at the elderly (KILL GRANNY!) and even electric Toyotas and Barack Obama. While advertising Percy in…
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A hint of parliament?
Email spam from Speaker Mike, always addressed to Friend, still dominates my inbox. It beats all the usual Camp Lejeune and GERMAN SEX RITUAL and Leaf Filter spam. (Incidentally, Leaf Filter is a real company. I’ve seen their truck heading for a job.) Now Friend is getting competing speakerspam from Hakeem Jeffries, the D competitor…
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