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Honest goal
I’m tired of supporting activists who claim to be “holding power accountable” or “speaking truth to power” or “changing the world”. Machiavelli tells us that none of those events ever happen. Until now, Jeffrey Tucker’s Brownstone outfit was claiming to cause change in the circles of power, but never showing any real change. Now Jeffrey…
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Universal pattern
As GetReligion prepares to close down after 20 years of writing, it’s featuring some memoirs by frequent writers or founders. Cofounder Doug LeBlanc hits a resonant chord here: = = = = = START QUOTE: I note with amusement that most of my favorite posts attracted zero likes, and a few fiery dissents. That was…
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We manage somehow
It’s a peculiar situation. Polls consistently show that 2/3 of the population is perfectly tired of the political and corporate teams and all the crimes committed by the political and corporate teams. Yet no writers or politicians or corporations or advertisers or churches or entertainers are trying to pick up this audience. All the output…
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Hope everyone copies this law!
Via ArsTechnica, Britain is requiring software firms to notify users in advance of their endless psychopathic updates which always destroy functionality and prevent work. Apple is threatening to leave Britain. GOOD! I hope all countries enact similar laws so Apple will leave all countries.
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Pinfeed to Pigskin 1/3
The Pinfeed end. While trying to find a McBee computer from the ’50s, I ran into a peculiar system that used a similar coding. Here’s the presentation from a computer society meeting in 1955: = = = = = START QUOTE: The best way to cover this subject is to describe a machine system known…
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Pinfeed to Pigskin 2/3
The Pigskin end. (Continued from the Pinfeed end.) After 1960, NCR paper mostly took over multipage business forms. NCR paper didn’t need machines at all. One of my big themes: The best solutions come from improved materials and methods, NOT from new mechanisms or circuits or programs. Materials are the BIG story, damn near the…
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Pinfeed to Pigskin 3/3
Beyond the pigskin: In exploring the details of NCR, I found an entire area of learning with a hugely productive worldview. Everything from weather to electrotyping to cooking to neurology involves colloids, yet nobody ever talks about colloids. My high school chemistry teacher never talked about colloids or gave us any experiments with colloids. (Which…
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Why ban silliness?
For some reason Elon decided to clamp down on Taylor Swift memes, most of which are fake pictures. Why bother? It’s just fun. Nobody is harmed, nobody is persuaded to do horrible things like “voting”. Taylor is a billionaire with her own army of lawyers. If she had wanted to halt this trend, she would…
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Supersuckers
Via Protos: = = = = = START QUOTE: A spate of ETF fund managers, including Proshares, Grayscale, Roundhill, and Simplify are announcing interest-bearing spot bitcoin ETFs that promise bitcoin exposure along with generous dividends. For example, another firm, Purpose Investments, is offering 11.9% yield on its bitcoin yield ETF in Canada, while other ETF…
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Must be genetic
Random irrelevant thought. Provisioning, laying aside food or other value toward the future, must be in the genes. Protists and plants and insects do it automatically. Birds and mammals do it in a more intelligent way. Finding that Yes, I’ve Got Enough After All gives tremendous pleasure, and this happy event occurs often in dreams.…
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Another zinger from Glenn
Greenwald has another sharp and evocative observation in this short clip. Large segments of D voters are FINISHED with Biden’s endless support of Israel’s imperialism. Glenn says this parallels the discontent with LBJ in 1968, by the same groups of D voters. LBJ felt the need to resign “so the party could win without him.”…
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Real journalism!
Moody’s rating service was a big part of the corruption in 2008. They seem to have mended their ways, if this latest piece of reporting is typical… = = = = = START QUOTE: Moody’s Analytics has found 21 million “red flags” associated with shell companies that could be used to enable financial crimes, from…
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Not hypocrisy at all
The Gaian genociders are at it again, tossing tomato soup at an old painting. I’m not bothered a bit by insulting an old painting. There’s nothing especially valuable or beautiful in a plain painting of an ugly aristocratic trannie with a condescending patronizing smirk. It shouldn’t be revered as fine art or treated as sacred.…
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Insatiables vs Deplorables from the start
Another reprint from 2017. = = = = = START REPRINT: An interesting bit of history from the Lea book on the Inquisition that I was citing earlier. This part isn’t emphasized in conventional wisdom nowadays. Before the Inquisition ran wild and expanded into an all-consuming pogrom of Deplorables, it began as an academic fight…
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Stupid fable
Following on previous rant, because I’m in a mood tonight. Probably the full moon. Let’s try a fable. What if plumbers worked like politicians? I’d call Gold Seal Plumbers to unclog my drain. Gold Seal would arrive and look at the clog. He’d tell me that I need to contribute to his Campaign Fund so…
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