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Meaningless word peeve
Political spammers keep asking me if I’m proud of Biden or proud of Trump or proud of America. In the first fucking place, I have nothing but hatred toward all excrescences of the national government, with the possible exception of Jerome Powell. In the second fucking place, proud can’t possibly apply to these entities, even…
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More thanks for advice
Continuing in thanks for good advice mode…. Noticed this while browsing Substack. The Bob Brinker financial advising firm is still around and still advising, and now it’s recommending Series I bonds again. Brinker retired a long time ago and died earlier this year; the firm is carried on by his successors. Back in 2001 I…
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Hollywood is not learning
Continuing from here. Hollywood isn’t trying to regain our trust. They’re listening to this grotesque academic asshole. He correctly identifies the Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse as Thiel, Zuck, Xlon and Andreesen. Why does he think they’re evil? NOT because they squash every business they encounter. NOT because they steal every idea they can grab.…
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Africa is the future.
Discovery Institute, the ID advocate, just finished a long lecture tour in Africa, with 65 lectures in South Africa and Kenya. = = = = = START QUOTE: Four lectures to over 1,300 students at the University of Eldoret, located in Eldoret, the fifth-largest city in Kenya. Here, we were greeted with — no joke…
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What for?
Tara Henley, former CBC reporter who turned independent, interviews Eric Kaufmann. He’s trying to set up a School of Heterodox Social Science within an existing British college. He offers a balanced and rational approach to the whole mess of Cancel and Woke and such, recognizing that censorship and orthodoxy are permanent in academia. As I…
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National Savings Day is real now.
National Savings Day is an obviously commercial “day”, founded by Capital One in 2017 during the 15 years when “savings” was a cruel myth. I guess Capital One hoped to bring in more deposit money without paying for it. This year, for the first time since 2008, Savings Day is NOT a cruel joke. Banks…
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Reprint on computing history
Linked in previous. Also, this 2012 item continues to draw occasional readers or bots, so maybe it’s worthwhile at least to bots. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via uCatholic.com: The computer was originally invented to do just that: compute. Numerical calculations were its sole intended purpose, and words were never in the realm…
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Doesn’t hit the main point
A bitcoin lover interviews a bitcoin realist. Kudos to both of them for conducting a civil and informative interview. Important question around minute 12: No, there’s nothing interesting at the core. There’s no “technology” at the core. It’s just an array, which is a universal part of every computer program. The bitcoin array is an…
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Need more metrology
Wolf has fun with a fake IPO based on a small Vietnamese auto company. The owner created a huge number of shares and manipulated the meme stock bros to jack the “market cap” up to 216 billion for a few days. The meme bros stole as much as they could from the sucker bros, and…
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Two errors at once
Watching the “independents” fall into line with the warmongers like passive iron filings under a strong magnet. Influencers and marketers lose both influence and quality when they stray from their specialty. Bud Light is an error on the consumer side. A specialist in beer loses customers when it strays into gender politics. A specialist in…
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50th anniversary
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Enid flood. If the weather had waited two more years to pull such a crime, it could have shifted the blame to global warming. Unfortunately the Innovative Disruptive Gaian theology hadn’t been invented yet, so primitive dumb savages blamed the weather itself.
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Better choices
Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Look, if you really want to honor ancient women in technology, Ada is getting tired. She didn’t invent anything, she was just a writer who explained Babbage’s invention and saw some of its potential. Babbage wasn’t the main source of modern computing anyway. Calculators with decimal dials were widespread a…
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Hmm…
Interesting admission in CoinDesk’s live coverage of the Sammy trial and other bitcoin-related events. A lobbyist who helps bitcoin companies deal with regulation said: The regulators have shut down the major banks who served the crypto industry, and placed strong restrictions on other banks. If you can’t work with a bank you can’t succeed in…
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What makes men happy?
Vintage.es has a set of 1910 photos showing all the employees of a gas and electric utility in upstate New York. Some are office workers, some are laborers, some are skilled technicians. Correlation: The men who are holding a tool, or posing with a truck, are smiling and proud. The others are expressionless, which was…
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