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Guild vs law
Seen at Substack: Nowadays the suspicion that everyone uses AI for creative work is so strong and omnipresent that soon every artist and writer will be forced to reveal their work process step by step or else their authorship will be denied. I wrote a short response saying that this type of caution is normal.…
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Good for Delaware!
Via RealClear: The major bitcoin fraudster Coinbase played the usual corporate trick of incorporating in Delaware because Delaware has rigged its laws to favor tax evaders and fraudsters. Amazingly, Delaware has finally lost its patience with the worst criminals. WSJ has an “editorial” written by Coinbase’s head criminal. His words in bold followed by interlinear…
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Less urban
Random observation spawned by looking closely at towns in Massachusetts for my next tech history item. The downtown areas in smaller Mass towns look much less urban than the downtowns in Kansas and Oklahoma small towns. In Mass, industrial buildings and stores are mixed randomly among houses and apartments. In the plains, stores are grouped…
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Digital mother-in-law / Analog Cadillac
This item in NewScientist slams my Good News vs Bad News nerves. Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use. The bad news: New technology lets burglars steal your intellectual property 1000 times faster! The good news: Modern technologists are FINALLY recognizing the value of analog computers after totally ignoring and…
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150 year sync
The mint finally stopped making pennies but didn’t remove pennies from legal tender. It makes sense to stop making cents. Inflation gradually wears down the smaller divisions. It’s safe to assume that stores will make all prices end in 0 or 5 to avoid rounding. Or maybe not? I looked up the previous ‘weardown’ when…
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Another 400 year sync
History Today’s short features are good this month. The London Gazette is the longest-running continuous newspaper in Britain, and possibly in the world. I think one Dutch paper might be older. The Gazette’s starting point gives us another neat 400 year resonance. = = = = = START QUOTE: The Restoration government needed to manage…
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Prescription font
This item at Substack shows some actual prescriptions for liquor written during Prohibition. It was a nice loophole for wealthier drinkers and a nice source of legal profit for distilleries and doctors. The printed forms were set in Record Gothic, still used for official forms in the 70s when I worked in hot lead. For…
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400 year sync
Evan Barker’s podcast on the NYC win by Mamdani accidentally creates a 400 year resonance. One of her guests is smoking the modern vape version of an old Dutch long pipe. Strange as it Seems was the best of the 1930s human interest podcasts. My favorite episode dramatizes New Amsterdam’s governor Willem Keeft, a petty…
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Could have been a good idea
Via RealClear: The Methodists are trying a new way to maintain a central managing body while allowing more modularity. Instead of a universal orthodoxy, regions will be allowed to set their own standards for SOME hot-button stuff like homosexuality and women pastors. In any system, living or mechanical or social, modularity is crucial. = =…
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Rererereprint on natural law
Reprint triggered by focusing on the necessity of paper cash. When there’s no way of paying debts outside of Altman’s tyranny, there’s no feedback system, no equilibrium. Natural Law, whether expressed in genes or societies, is all about equilibrium and equipoise. Every cell is meant to work in its own way, every cell gets nourished…
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Good work by Ireland!
Via Solari Report: Ireland has passed a law requiring all businesses to take cash along with other forms of payment. = = = = = START QUOTE: Until now, Ireland’s contract law merely has required that cash be accepted if it is to settle a debt. A legal loophole allows businesses to refuse cash as…
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1918, 1957, 1989
Old tech journals often tell you things that weren’t mentioned in the media or our fake school “history” texts. I learned about our 1918 invasion and occupation of Russia from reading old Signal Corps journals at GoogleBooks. Looking up info on my latest tech history obsession, I found two later Signal Corps magazines, one from…
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One-stop shop
History Today tells how medieval scribes adapted to the onset of printing by reusing and expanding their existing materials, tools and skills. = = = = = START QUOTE: At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early…
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Reprint on tenure
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and GENOCIDAL in the current fake “emergency”. Retired officials and professors and doctors have been speaking truth openly on all the fake “emergencies” from “9/11”…
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This is ridiculous!!!!
Several years ago I paid for a subscription to Academia.edu, an online clearing house for academic papers. Most of my own publications are there, but I was using the service to do tech history pieces on Islamic astronomy and such. After I used up those sources I stopped paying and tried to unsubscribe. Academia.edu won’t…
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