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Puzzling but wonderful
Adding another random thought to this theme: = = = = = START REPRINT: The teams are getting narrower and narrower and more specialized, in all fields. In pro athletics, every game or race is between two identical performers who are at the top of their range, and the difference has to be measured in…
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Hell freezes over
Alt headline: Why newspapers are failing. San Francisco “voted” solidly against crime and for police yesterday. Hell is officially frozen. The local “newspaper” declared that the people had gone crazy and the city was no longer tolerable for journalists. = = = = = START QUOTE: The San Francisco Chronicle declared its hometown “can no…
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TIL it wasn’t the iceberg
One of those fun fillers at MSN gave us a bunch of things we learned in high school that turned out to be false. Since EVERYTHING we learned was false, and most of the lies were already known AT THAT TIME to be false, this is a low bar. Some of these I already caught…
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You first, asshole.
Listening again to Spencer Cox of the Niceness Initiative. He says the governors all get along fine. We’ve heard recently that the Supreme Black-robed Demons get along fine. That’s the problem, not the solution. The inner party gets along. When they decide to imprison and strangle the peasants, they all move together in perfect unison.…
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Firmly in charge
Pointed via Denyse as usual, the Multiple Personality shit is enjoying a resurgence. Apparently the new version is closely tied to “gender” transformations as you might expect. MPD is a cult. Nothing less. I saw it up close in the late 70s. A therapist who “multiplied” people had a part-time faculty position at Phillips and…
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Back to Maragha again 1/2
I’m trying to reconnect with inspiration after a long dull winter. I’m mostly old and weary after four years of world holocaust, and partly distracted by “hurry up and wait” dealings with my courseware publisher. The project is all done now, so I no longer have to keep my mental desk clear for sudden final…
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Back to Maragha again 2/2
Continued from part 1. Christoph Scheiner’s magnum opus is Rosa Ursina, published in 1620. The title, roughly the Bear’s Rose, is an extremely poetic and sycophantic dedication to his patron, Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. The bear, of course, is the patron’s name, and Scheiner waxes lyrical about the vast mind and infinite morality and…
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MTS?
Rushfield puts out his annual State Of The Entertainment Industry message. He holds out some theoretical vain hope, based solely on the imbalance between demand and supply. Everyone wants entertainment, and the outsiders are supplying it adequately. Hollywood lost its chance a long time ago, just as the “journalism” industry lost its chance earlier and…
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Demonic constant, fake variable
Oregon is recriminalizing hard drugs after decriminalizing for three years. This is a good move but as always with legislatures it’s a fake move. Constants and variables! Fentanyl is a city-ending plague EVERYWHERE, not just where drugs are decriminalized. Every city has the same genocide. Portland is no worse than Philly or Spokane or NYC.…
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Immediate example
Here’s a good example of the defector rule I was discussing in previous item. This author is trying to say that Deepstate is not as powerful as we think. Specifically, Deepstate has been warning the rest of the government that the war in Ukraine is pointless and unwinnable. He starts with one blatant lie and…
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Canceling = Missionary work
I always understood one end of canceling thanks to my father’s advice. He explained in the ’60s that college faculty who were fired for “communism” were actually fired for ordinary personal reasons. Unproductive faculty could be fired honestly. When the department head simply disliked the employee, he couldn’t write “I don’t like him” on an…
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New retronym
Headline from the Ankler: My chat with Gabe Spitzer, Netflix’s head of nonfiction sports, at the Netflix Slam tennis event reveals the streamer’s sports ambitions keep growing. Nonfiction sports? I guess fiction sports encompasses “scripted events” like this: One can easily envision this becoming an annual event, one that’s clearly meant to build on the…
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Adverse possession wins
The Supremes have decided 9-0 that states can’t kick Trump off the ballot. In practical terms I’d rather have the opposite result. It would be “unjust”, but none of the fake “trials” are getting anywhere close to real “justice”. If “justice” existed, Trump and all other Federal officials and most governors and all mayors and…
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Prophecy about prophets
Bumped into this when looking for something else I’d written about the null hypothesis. It’s an observation about prophets, and turned out to be prophetic. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2012: Found an interesting snippet from a speech by George Romney in 1959, showing that his prophetic vision was larger than just the…
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CathGPT
I’m working up a tech history piece on the 1611 telescopes of Christoph Scheiner, who bridged the gap between alidades and lenses. I felt the need to reconnect with the beacons of the universe lately, and Maragha is where the beacons are found. Ran across this piece in a 1902 history of astronomy by Agnes…
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Be your own beacon.
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