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Both valid now
Reading some old Soviet jokes again. For many years the spy and secret police jokes also applied to USA, but the economic jokes were hard to understand. Now the economic jokes are funny too.
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Weirdly repetitive
The spam from the Trump cult is getting weirdly repetitive. I STORMED INTO COURT. I STORMED OUT OF COURT. I STORMED INTO COURT. I STORMED OUT OF COURT. I STORMED INTO COURT. I STORMED OUT OF COURT. I STORMED INTO COURT. I STORMED OUT OF COURT. I STORMED INTO COURT. I STORMED OUT OF COURT.…
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Pointless peeve
I’m tired of seeing water bottles in every goddamn podcast and TED talk. Everyone unscrews the cap, sips tap water from disposable plastic, then screws the cap back on every goddamn time. There’s no reason to screw the cap on. You’re not going to put the bottle back in the refrigerator when you’re done. We…
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Bandwagon
Luskin at EvoNews points to a new paper by establishment biologists who acknowledge that the standard theory of evolution is flawed. They propose, without actually doing it, that AI might help to sort out the question. Unfortunately they miss the basic problem with LLMs. In current parlance, the term AI means systems like ChatGPT. If…
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Metaphor misses
Growth is the Wall Street mantra. Go big or go home. The crime market insists on growth of cash flow, with a negative correlation to profit. In real life you don’t want endless growth. Endless growth is CANCER. In real life you ALSO don’t want to survive by merging into a larger body. Merging into…
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Tensile test
Animating old GenRad testing machines got me thinking in terms of Metrology again. Social media algorithms are testing machines for the pigeons in the Skinner box. You have a lever marked “block”, which allegedly gets rid of stuff you don’t want. You keep pressing, assuming that the AI algorithm will adapt to your desires. If…
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All open now
The purpose of venture capitalists, and the stock market in general, is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF PROFIT. The stock market is the RECIPROCAL of real business. When real business prospers, the market goes to zero. When real business collapses, the market goes to infinity. VCs make the goal perfectly transparent. They invest to destroy business…
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Thanks for proving his point
Berliner made some mild criticisms of the North Korean climate inside NPR. He’s undoubtedly playing the usual cancel trick, setting up a lease-breaking party that guarantees firing under harsh conditions so he can go elsewhere and spread North Korea to the few remaining real independents. Now the current employees have made his points far more…
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Experienceleth
People who have real experience in a specific area can immediately distinguish between experienced and inexperienced writers or experts. This is especially true with juries and trials. Jury service is a common** experience, but the vast majority of people who write or talk about trials show that they haven’t been there. The media are focusing…
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AI and fingers
AI famously has trouble with multiples like fingers and headlights. It tends to run wild with a pattern, giving people seven fingers or giving cars six headlights. Just now I got an email from Quantum Fiber, the successor to Pacific Bell and Qwest and CenturyLink. The heading says “there’s an outage in your area”. Here’s…
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1974.2
The current fake flap around Uri Berliner’s fake ‘cancel’ reminded me of something that happened before. The details are different this time but the basic pattern is the same. 1974 was a major Deepstate coup. Nixon was assigned as official scapegoat or sacrificial anode. He accomplished all the horrible tasks Deepstate needed, while cloaking the…
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Message from dream
I’m feeling a bit better lately, as my semicircular canals gradually close down their annual Spring Dance Festival. The Fest was longer and louder this year for unknown reasons, probably just aging. I’m also getting more sleep, creating a virtuous circle. Less trouble with different head positions leads to more sleep leads to less trouble,…
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1936 fiberoptics
Perusing some of Gernsback’s magazines, noticed this in Radio News for June 1936. The article doesn’t give a brand, so this may have been a prototype or ‘concept radio’ for a display, rather than a mass-produced receiver. The dial had a map of Europe in the middle. As you tuned across the dial, a miniature…
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Jeffrey gets Booker T
Jeffery Tucker of Brownstone is a complicated figure. He has some Libertarian genes that occasionally pop out, possibly without full intentions. His deep anger at the SHIT we endured drives him to PROTEST! Be like MLK! Be like Assange! Get imprisoned and assassinated so you can’t influence anyone at all! He’s moving quickly toward the…
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Punching half was so much fun…
In the ’60s colleges expelled and arrested “leftist” protesters. Since then, colleges have been expelling and arresting “right-wing” protesters while supinely obeying “leftist” protesters. Now they’re arresting leftist protesters again, and nobody seems to notice the reversal. Pro-Palestine has been a leftist issue for 60 years. I tried to join the SDS in ’68 but…
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