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Sounds like FDR
RFK has started writing on Substack. It appears that he signed up back in April with an atrocious Earth Day piece, but didn’t write much after that. Now he’s finally settling into real problems and real solutions, in the same way that the actors union is talking about real life for real people. This piece…
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Good interview on the newspaper biz
This is an informative interview by the EnidBuzz crew. They’re talking with Cindy Allen, who just retired as editor and publisher of the Enid News & Eagle. She explains what’s happening in the newspaper business on a local level, in a way that avoids the usual partisan nonsense. Like most Enid businesses, the Eagle was…
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That’s not how we get there.
Weiss interviews Vivek. He’s obviously running to be Trump’s VP, no matter how strongly he asserts otherwise. This is standard political strategy. Nobody ever SAYS he’s running for VP. Vivek is pushing for “raw unfiltered meritocracy”. That’s exactly how we got into the current grotesque situation where a few monstrous psychopaths own the world and…
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Old strategy
Seen on Reddit. The ChatGPT ‘testers’ can’t stand it when Chat attempts to enforce a copyright. They’re full of the old Everything For Free spirit, which is another way of saying they’re professional criminals. The pro criminal type has an unquenchable desire to cheat. If there’s an easy honest way and a difficult sneaky way…
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Dumb multitasking
Multipurpose devices are a tricky idea. Some of them work out, most don’t. Radios with phonographs and radios with clocks were common. Radios in cars were a good idea, and in fact the radio took precedence over more prosaic devices like windshield wipers or heaters. The radio had the place of honor in the center…
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Stages
Doomberg, a prolific and pseudonymous bitcoiner, reveals how Twitter worked and how Xlon changed it. Summary: Like all social media, Twitter had Lurkers, Participants and Creators. Twitter was different from other media like Youtube or Facebook or old-fashioned publishers, because Twitter didn’t pay its creators. Instead, the Creators were meant to use Twitter as a…
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What happened? China.
As I’m expanding my daily walks to include some blocks I haven’t seen in several years, and some I never walked before, I’m noticing one systematic change. 10 years ago many houses in the neighborhood had wall-mounted air conditioners. This was a bit of a fad in the ’50s, and it was necessary on the…
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Tired of Platonists
More point-missing by Platonists: = = = = = START QUOTE: In his new book, Science After Babel, David Berlinski expands on his explanation of the development and significance of algorithms, a subject he first examined in The Advent of the Algorithm. Berlinski writes, “The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which…
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On-ramp dreams, off-ramp dreams
Lately I’ve been having complex dreams. They started when the NAZI TORTURE CAMP began to ease last spring. Since the VERIFIABLE END of the torture camp this summer, the dreams are getting intense. Tangled urban environments, railroad embankments, interstate cloverleafs, pipes and mechanisms that must be climbed to reach a goal. Here’s what I wrote…
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FB weirdness
Just for fun, Facebook is doing a truly weird trick today. On every time indication involving hours, it adds a space after the first letter or number. It’s also extraspacing dates like J uly 29. It’s not extraspacing time indications involving minutes. I can’t think of any algorithmic purpose for this spacing, but there must…
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Old joke
Old joke: “Day 19 of the experiment, I have successfully conditioned my master to give me food, smile, and write in his book every time I drool.” – Pavlov’s Dog The free-play phase of Altman’s AI attack seems to be standard sales practice, which can be benign or not. Duane Jones calls it Sampling. Send…
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Hypothesis
Denyse discusses an evocative and important question which is triggering new research: = = = = = START QUOTE: How can a person living with advanced dementia abruptly communicate in a clear manner? Many wonder what mechanism underlies this phenomenon and if it might be a key to mitigating—or even reversing—neurodegeneration. It’s also a mystery…
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Responsible media would…
I’ve seen several threads like this on Reddit. Chase Bank suddenly withdrew about 100 billion dollars from this guy’s account. More precisely, they withdrew the difference between his actual balance and 100 billion. He’s totally befuddled and can’t get answers from the bank. Other commenters have been through the same experience and figured it out.…
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Chinese FD
As usual Ankler provides a thoughtful discussion. Why is Hollywood losing its connection with China? Most of the reasons are well known. Xi is switching back to China’s 5000-year norm of internal isolation. The middle kingdom is the only kingdom. After 40 years of commercial connection and student spying, China has acquired all of our…
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