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Simple Terms
Headline on a Bloomberg podcast: Demystifying NFTs, Blockchains, and Web3 in Simple Terms Here, I’ll help. NFTs are a fraud. Blockchains are a fraud. Web3 is a fraud.
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Hersh is dumb. Or worse.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Seymour Hersh is either hopelessly naive or an Agent Provocateur. Today’s column: = = = = = START HERSH: From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price. … It’s not a…
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Couldn’t be Spanish.
I heard the Ripley item about the mysterious Mexican president Comonfort again and got puzzled again. The Ripley audio is unclear, and the announcer didn’t always handle foreign words well. Google filled in the proper name after I typed ‘Mexican president Ignacio C’. Comonfort couldn’t be Spanish. Was it from the native tribes, or a…
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Greenwald gets it
… as usual. He sees what Nikki Haley is doing and describes it with a memorable phrase. She’s monetizing her future. Enhancing her job resume as a board member and lobbyist for warmaking companies. = = = = = In fairness, Glenn has a blind spot about Trump. Whether from bias or payment, he can’t…
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No more pranks
Gov Abbott of Texas is the only modern Repooflican willing to use effective tactics. He wasn’t as firm as DeSantis against the imprisonment and strangulation of the world, but he’s been remarkably CREATIVE in dealing with the migrant invasion. Dropshipping the migrants to the demonic mayors who claimed to want them was the PERFECT tactic.…
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Wot? No beats?
An experiment shows fungi don’t like silence. But the choice of sounds is peculiar. = = = = = START QUOTE: To investigate the impacts of sounds on fungi, Jake Robinson at Flinders University in Australia and his colleagues buried green and rooibos teabags in soil inside a soundproof box. Inside the box, they played…
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Fed breaks Parkinson!
Jerome Powell is the ONLY problem solver in this fucked former “country”. Everyone else at all levels is manufacturing problems and evils at an exponentially increasing rate. Now Powell has added another achievement: He broke the unbreakable Parkinson. He REPEALED a Federal program! Not quite as big as repealing a whole agency, but still unprecedented…
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Inner fog
Thankfully we’re past the supercold and snow, into a typical January period of fog and overcast. Looking at the airport records this morning to see if the fog was starting to let up… It’s so dense you can’t even see outside at all! You can only see inside your head!
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Search and replace
BlackVault has been fairly inactive lately. Today he posted an updated set of FOIA documents from the 1950s civil defense fraud. I lived through the fraud, though I was too young to question authority at the time. I’ve been reminded of the fraud by those Natl Assn of Mfrs films I’ve been playing at bedtime.…
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Grizzled Prospector Day
To honor Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day, here’s a wonderful example of karma. One of Lindsay MacHarrie’s Can You Imagine That episodes tells about a pair of grizzled old prospectors who fooled some of the richest men in the world (including Rothschild and Tiffany) with a salted diamond mine. MP3 at Archive.
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If this succeeds…
Via Politico, two big donors are suing the ‘No Labels’ outfit for fraud. The Durst family gave $150k to No Labels at a time when No Labels was claiming to be a bipartisan think tank. After that, No Labels started running a third-party candidate, which the Dursts claim is a bait-n-switch. I’ve been agitating for…
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Syllogism
All politics is about money. All email spam is about money. I receive massive amounts of spam from R/D politicians. Most of them aren’t even in my area, so I couldn’t “vote” for them if I wanted to. I’ve never received spam from an out-of-party politician, not even RFK. 2/3 of the people are dead…
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The real ancestor
I wrote this as a comment in a media-centered article at Substack. It’s a new thought, which really should have gone here first! In any case, here’s the new thought: The media that currently prosper are NOT descendants of newspapers and magazines. Currently thriving media are descendants of House Organs, the internal publications of corporations…
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Cute trick.
I was always suspicious of the “free” university UATX. It’s NOT based on skills. It’s centered on ideas, which necessarily means it will enforce orthodoxy and avoid truth. Skills are intrinsically true and unalterable, facts are arbitrary and controllable. UATX advisers and organizers include several unreformed Deepstaters like Bari Weiss and Richard Dawkins and (former…
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Platonic crap
Via MindMatters. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mark Balaguer defends the proposition that mathematics belongs to an eternal realm. This realm is frequently referred to as the Platonic realm. Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else—independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The…
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