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When does short form win?
This writer on Medium makes a fairly straightforward and clear argument, with the aid of an informative graph. He gets the timeline and the constants and variables right. Facebook took over the world by expanding into every possible country, and then sat on its laurels too long. Tiktok and Instagram opened up the short-form video…
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Perfect and comprehensive definition
This is strong stuff, powerfully written. Condenses bitcoin and stocks and gambling and MLM and Ponzi into a few perfect paragraphs. I won’t dilute it by quoting. Just read it.
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Like Hank says, 2
Continuing on the theme that math doesn’t solve anything… At the same time when Elon has taken over Twitter, @Jack has started up his own Twitter alternative, which isn’t exactly a platform, more like a super-browser. @Jack is making the same basic marketing error that Brendan Eich made with his Brave browser. When you introduce…
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Like Hank says….
In a topic with very little definite (unclassified) information available, a well-regulated imagination is more important than math. Well, actually that goes for all topics. Math is not the foundation of the universe or the foundation of anything. It’s an occasionally useful descriptive tool. Here’s what happens when academicians try to discuss life on other…
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Impressive and depressive
Now that I’ve got the dull parts of the new courseware version out of the way (switching out images to adjust for changes in DRM) I’m returning to the fun part. I’m reviving and modernizing some complex programs I wrote in the ’90s, so they can be presented as ‘accessories’ to the courseware. The impressive…
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High-yield CD
The nocoiners at Reddit tend to know the ins and outs of real markets. One of them notes that Binance is a major partner in Elon’s purchase of Twitter. Binance is a sort of bridge between the allegedly “traditional” finance establishment and the allegedly “unorthodox” bitcoin world. This will add spice to Deepstate’s fake fight.…
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Wrong Great Man
Kirn: I find it interesting that just when it appeared the takeover of Twitter was inevitable & the censorship regime would end, the establishment suddenly started questioning the closing of schools during the pandemic, vacillating about the vaccines, & endorsing the lab-leak theory. Probably not. Those specific shifts are just how psychopaths work. CONSTANT FAST…
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Not quite stereo
Another item from the newly added Phonoscope magazine, an 1899 ad. Not stereo in the proper sense, but it would have given an echo effect by reading the same groove a half second later. See also.
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Do these entities have robot servants?
Elon certainly knows how to play the Delphic Black Box routine. Create a stir, make it ambiguous, watch the response. He walked into Twitter HQ carrying a bathroom sink. 99% of the media described it as a kitchen sink, following the standard cliche. Admittedly the usual two-bowl kitchen sink is harder to carry (but not…
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An entirely different story!
American Radio Library has added a large set of ‘Phonoscope’, a rather elegant magazine about the phonograph and movies and similar amusements. The August 1898 issue includes an entirely different account of Edison’s invention. The usual story is that Edison was trying to develop a visual telegraph recorder, and suddenly realized its potential. This version…
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Pay for fucking value, goddamnit.
Pollsters are trying to figure out how to bring more people into their samples. I’ve got a weird radical idea. PAY. For some reason certain kinds of services have always been unpaid. Blood donors are unpaid, leaving tremendous profits for Red Cross. Organ donors, who give VASTLY more than anyone else, are unpaid, leaving tremendous…
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Long-lasting ladies
NYC media have never REMOTELY quasi-micro-pico-understood the rest of the country. NYC constantly hammers the myth of a Man’s World. Pure nonsense. The northeast is MUCH more of a Man’s World. When I moved to Pennsylvania in the ’80s, I was genuinely shocked by the domesticity of women in that part of the country. In…
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Field swap?
The “two” “parties” switch ideologies every few decades. Like the present orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field, the present party inclination is overdue for a switchover. I wonder if Fetterman vs Oz is the first indication? Both men are outside their niche, and it shows. Fetterman was a tough-on-crime prosecutor, now running as D. Aside…
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More WordPress erosion /// Edit: No, it’s not WP.
Last week I noticed an odd gradual “erosion” in some of my GIFs posted here. The sender in the original Morse prototype was being erased in an oddly analogish way. The result looks like a printer smearing ink. Now another set of erosions shows up. Instead of fixing and reposting, I’ll just link to this…
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Anyone could explain it…
As Elon’s “final” deadline for purchase approaches, Reuters notes that Twitter’s management doesn’t understand its own problem. Topics that have traditionally made Twitter a popular platform for its millions of users are now in decline among the most active English-speaking users, the documents show. Twitter is also losing a “devastating” percentage of heavy users who…
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