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That’s dumb.
Kirn: The point of social media was not to craft, perpetuate, and defend a one-party state. Crap. That’s just DUMB. I’ll grant that the web didn’t need to CRAFT a one-party state, because the one-party state already existed. The last real federal election was 1952. Before the NSA web, Deepstate organized activist groups on “both”…
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I don’t buy it.
I don’t buy the notion that “journalism” can ever be uninfluenced by its owners and financiers. Taibbi tried to peddle this old line. Now a bitcoin outlet called The Block turns out to be LBO’d by Bankman-Fried. The Block is making the same absurd claim: No one at The Block had any knowledge of this…
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Another good joke
Another fine joke from upjoke.com…… List 10 bad dog breeds. 1. There 2. Are 3. No 4. Bad 5. Dog 6. Breeds 7. Only 8. Bad 9. Owners 10. Chihuahuas
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Not a horseshoe
Many of the bitcoin commentators are trying to place the Effective Altruism types (eg the FTX boys) and the alt-white types (eg the Unz boys) at opposite ends of a spectrum. They’re not opposite at all, not even in the wraparound ‘horseshoe graph’ sense. They’re identical with slightly different labeling. Both groups are cullers. They…
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Three cheers for coal!
Following on Coal vs Ice: Coal is coming back, and New Nazi Torturist magazine hates it. The UK is set to get its first new deep coal mine in three decades after the government approved plans for a project in Cumbria, despite widespread opposition on environmental grounds. The Woodhouse Colliery in Whitehaven will produce about…
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Still itchy
Robert Marks talks with lawyer Richard Stevens about the puzzling Thaler project. Marks asks the same question I’ve been asking, in the same emotional tone of itchy frustration. What is Thaler trying to GAIN? What’s the business advantage of relinquishing the human possession of a patent to the AI software? Lawyer Stevens doesn’t have a…
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Locally interesting
Just a couple of ‘locally interesting’ pictures from a newly uploaded station brochure at American Radio Library. Here’s Frank Edwards in 1946, just before he went national on Mutual. This one is more meaningful in a Shannon way. The SCR-268 was the first American radar equipment. When I was reading up for my tech history…
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Starlight to Sonnabend?
It’s always fun to explore whatifs surrounding Studebaker. Here’s one that hasn’t been explored much. In 1958, after Curtiss-Wright had already LBO’d and raided the company’s best assets, management hired Abraham Sonnabend to start developing new niches. He got to work quickly and efficiently on a low budget, acquiring several profitable mid-size companies that were…
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Time to resume prayer
Demon CDC is back on the genocidal warpath. This time they’re labeling life as “flu” instead of labeling life as the more esoteric C-word. But the result is the same. Genocide. No life allowed. Trying to calm down my PTSD reaction: 1. At the moment they’re only encouraging strangulation, not mandating. 2. It’s possible that…
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Real complaint, backwards solution
One “socialist” party in Australia is making headlines by proposing that politicians should be paid no more than the median wage. Effective Altruist monsters are rising up against this idea, claiming that you need super-high pay to get the “highest quality” (highest IQ) candidates. Fuck that. High IQ is the specific center and wellspring of…
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Orwell said it better
Kirn: If not careful, we’re going to end up in a caste system built around truth & accuracy. The people at the top will have great info, those in the middle decent info mixed w/ junk & propaganda, those at the bottom pure BS. And you may be stuck in your class, security-clearance style Not…
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Would be a nice experiment
Thinking about hucksters who formerly needed to “demonstrate” their systems and machines. Here’s a pretty good modern demo for bitcoin. A sort of Tide Pod Challenge. Nocoiner and Procoiner are on Zoom. Nocoiner challenges Procoiner to a race. Each of us will pick a song on Spotify. After we pick, we’ll show them on Zoom…
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Missed the best part
At MindMatters: A surprising find for evolutionary neuroscientists is that a tiny life form that lived more than half a billion years ago had a brain. Creatures like Cardiodictyon were not supposed to have had brains. MindMatters sort of ‘buried the lede’ on the actual article. Early arthropods were already known to have brains, but…
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Least surprising surprise
Apple and Amazon quietly returned to advertising on Twitter after being noisily “gone” for a few days. These monsters know each other well, and they know Elon is a full-fledged Deepstater. THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX. In the end only auto companies will stay out, for real business reasons, not…
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UFO joke
Another fine joke from upjoke.com Aliens have arrived on earth. They command a huge event with all the world leaders in attendance. The Pope asks, “Do you know Jesus Christ?” The aliens say, “Do we ever? Awesome guy! He swings by the planet every year to say Hi!” “Every year? What!!?? We’re still waiting for…
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