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What’s the problem?
Headline: Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on federal land under new Biden admin rule. Conservatives are squawking as usual, but this is a rare example of government applying the correct incentives. Government desperately needs to function more like a business. Businesses charge individual customers for individual services. This leads to more…
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Enjoying rare realists
Online people who agree with reality are rare. (Offline realism is far more common.) So I appreciate the few writers and podcasters who are firmly grounded in reality, ignoring soap opera noise of all sorts. Taggart is reliable, and most of his guests are also reliable. Last week he talked with Hoenig, who was the…
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Radio in the walls
Looking up DeForest’s Unit Panel system, ran into an article in Gernsback’s Radio News from June 1928. Radio in the Ohio State Pen, by 52607. Conditions were definitely different when I was in Mansfield in 1969. If this article is accurate, the inmates of 1928 had far more latitude and trust. = = = =…
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April is the sweetest month
Will wonders never cease? The EU passed a law to restrict “asylum” fakers. They said it would fast-track asylum procedures at the EU’s border, impose tough new screening systems and return people who do not qualify for international protection to their countries. Sorosian devils hate the law, which tells me all I need to know.…
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Y no breadboard?
I’m finally getting my electronics workbench back into commission after a couple years of general weariness. Days go better with a little soldering and experimentation and Real Science™ in the mix. For instance, I was uncertain about the bidirectional current in the induction loop of the Phelps Railroad Telegraph, so I set up a quick…
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World in one checkout
In Safeway the woman behind me in the checkout line was loading the belt with dozens and dozens and dozens of baby food jars. She was clearly from India, judging by her appearance and dress. The other customers, including me, were Anglo and OLD. Describes the world. India and Africa are winning because they have…
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Kucinich misses Parkinson
Kucinich is running for Congress again. I like and admire him, but he seems to have fallen behind the times. He wants to be a Unifier Not Divider by increasing discussion between the parties. This might have been useful before 1990. Parties aren’t the problem now. As I was saying in previous item, civilization depends…
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Reprint on grammar and skill
Reprint from 2021, relevant to the Altman AI monstrosity. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research finding that is supposed to…
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Aurora printing
An interesting observation from Prescott’s 1860 book on electricity and telegraphy. The massive aurora of 1852 was the first in the electrical era. Scientists and telegraphers took full advantage of it to make observations and experiments. = = = = = START QUOTE: At Springfield, a gentleman who observed the needle of the compass during…
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Phelps induction telegraph, part 1/2
Reghc s1tca wee0s rxlsg nmay cogr groon lfke niosb eepi htkh wvex 4oo7d ot3i, r? Yyutm ronqa e8roe aez1e vehel d4sh va, n2jsri eiwi infigo aiottd wftao ar2a ewmse hhay hsoeu wegtr sisen a3te4 efoaa selr1i ovnke fkdye sqge0, sldr erkat pohem eveoo. Merot lndiet euay0 ykom ehplg iotmk qmai ssems hnia, feksyx ceeep ekkt1…
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Phelps induction telegraph, part 2/2
Khek, dylyt rrue khosn wrioh oa75w tteie hrr6o tih9t ogsne yeioi ojndd wanwg oejaa ofrtc arth oywi ncadi hgcme tfur7 ritrrr tsek. Otkse wsy9e qt6lo zultq rt26ss inses bfosc cknu oytaa e9yeif soxan g. Xyaee edioyf ke. Ter9s ohke ne8k0k nsiah baaw i1o2 keiow atn. Nfclk snwoni ie8ws duat ntefkj araa; rtmkr 3eaoi euete htzrxz…
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Useful pushback
At the Ankler, a producer discusses what AI can and can’t do for producers. He concludes that AI can replace human editors for first-stage filtering to winnow down a huge pile of incoming scripts. He received immediate and knowledgeable pushback from two human editors, who pointed out the fallacies: = = = = = START…
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The month of honesty
Dishonest shit continues to collapse this month. Trump has given up his fake “populism” and fake “christianity”, reverting to an honest expression of his NYC and Hollywood caste. In 2016 he read scripts saying “abortion is bad”, and clearly had no idea what he was saying. It was a foreign language, like JFK’s Ick Been…
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It is now
Heard somebody saying the old proverb “Politics ain’t beanbag.” No longer true. Politics IS beanbag, or hacky-sack in modern terms. Voteball pays TV for coverage just like pro sports. Voteball has season ticket holders, who are called “donors”, and luxury box owners called “big donors”. The voteball players give most of their attention to the…
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Good news!
Pointed by Denyse as usual, Gizmodo writes about Satan Altman’s decreasing power. The VCs who formerly worshipped him are getting tired of his psychopathic monstrosity. = = = = = START GIZMODO: “He’s a megalomaniac,” said another. “For the same reason I don’t trust Elon, I just don’t trust somebody whose aspirations are so clearly…
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