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Not so thorny
Mattingly at GetReligion lists some questions he would ask candidates at “debates”. He’s fully realistic about the idiocy of these “debates”, and acknowledges that he’s dealing in wishful fantasy. Some of the questions are thorny. “If states shouldn’t interfere with parental rights by requiring trans surgery, what about circumcision?” The thorns go away when you…
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1816 = 2023
Looking for more material on Magic Lanterns, this 1816 pamphlet came up. Thaumaturgus, or the Wonders of the Magic Lantern. It’s not a guide to creating Magic Lantern displays. The author uses a Magic Lantern show as an extended conceit to display a harsh picture of society. The situation and the characters are PERFECTLY FAMILIAR…
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Solving a puzzle
Sailer asks why Deepstate is endorsing and undermining Elon at the same time. I’ve always been puzzled by this paradox, starting with Nixon. He served Deepstate much more effectively than other presidents, but he got punished and removed. Trump is identical to Nixon. He gave Wall Street everything it wanted, and gave the CDC demons…
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Statusometer
Curbside Classic features a 1969 Motor Trend article comparing the three luxury brands. As always, MT tested everything from braking to G-force to suspension characteristics. They concluded that Lincoln was the best by car guy standards, but they also recognized that luxury buyers aren’t car guys. So they found a way to test STATUS, which…
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GOOD question
In a Bloomberg podcast today, the host asked a GOOD question. The guest got distracted and didn’t answer the question; I don’t think she was consciously avoiding it. Question: For many years financial media have told us dozens of times each day that The Market Baked In a war or inflation, or The Market Priced…
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Bricsit?
Boris wanted Brexit to free up his own murderous impulses. Even so, disconnecting from EU made sense for Britain, which traditionally traded with its own empire. Britain fought two wars to halt Kraut aggression, and then surrendered to Kraut aggression through EU. Now the old imperial ties are starting to regrow. Via UKExpress, Britain is…
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More interesting fact
I was curious to see if the shutoff of QE has changed the media side of politics yet. Parties might be getting less money from ‘dark’ corporate sources? If there’s any difference, it’s too early to see in publicly available stats. QE halted in early 2022, and the effects are still rippling through various layers.…
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Another Fairness Doctrine comedian
Alex Velluto is another modern comedian who sticks to the Fairness Doctrine and shows a DEEP understanding of the facts of life. Despite meritocracy and Cinderella stories, being popular or unpopular is an innate permanent trait. Unpopular people need to stop wasting effort on an unachievable goal, and seek satisfaction more creatively. Velluto also takes…
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The Hughes Typograph
Found in Tangible Typography, or how the blind read, published in England in 1853. The Typograph was invented in 1851 by William Hughes, head of the Blind Institution at Manchester. It was demonstrated at one of the Crystal Palace exhibitions of new inventions, and was produced and used in small quantities. Several of the earliest…
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Bootstrapping a language
Okie blogger K. Latham posted an interesting brief feature on the Cherokee Advocate, a weekly paper in Tahlequah that was first founded in 1844. I had noticed several early tribal newspapers in the Ayer newspaper lists but hadn’t stopped to think about the alphabet and fonts. I asked some questions about the source of the…
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What we lost part 99999999
Demons and Cadillacs don’t have a reverse gear. Demons only back up under external force, jumpy and tectonic in nature, like shoving a Cadillac backwards with a bulldozer. It’s worth noticing when demons are forced to skid backwards. A couple days ago Canada’s parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old ACTUAL LITERAL NAZI, a…
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Metagoebbels
For some reason I started thinking about the standard Goebbels Big Lie lie. As I’ve often repeated, repetition is NOT the key to enforcing belief in an obvious lie. Repetition is necessary to learn ANY fact or statement or skill, whether true or false, evil or neutral. That’s just how learning works. Creating belief in…
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Doing what GUILDS are meant to do
The Writers Guild has published their new contract. The section on AI is exemplary. = = = = = START QUOTE: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights.…
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Makes sense
Sammy’s trial will begin next week. Bloomberg’s pregame analysis says that a jury will be easy enough to select. Makes sense. The bitcoin fraud seems HUGE to a techie type like me, but it never involved a large part of the population and didn’t gather much mainstream media coverage until last year. Sammy’s fraud was…
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British system WORKS part 84859734589
Continuing from here… Sunak is backing away from Boris’s murderous Gaian goals, which were the direct predecessor to Boris’s murderous “virus” goals. Why is he backing away? BECAUSE HE WANTS VOTES. What a radical and revolutionary idea. Allow the people to have a voice in their government!!! Unprecedented and historic!!! Who could have imagined such…
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