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Good clarifier
Nate Silver, the meta-pollster, writes a great clarifier on the current positions, and the current trends, of political labels. He does an especially good job describing the Woke category. Here he gets close to a major fact about universities but doesn’t see it or doesn’t say it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Social…
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Recapturing downtown
Enid has done a great job of revitalizing its downtown after letting it decay in the ’90s. Various neighborhoods have always organized Xmas light shows. Now the downtown is bringing in fancy drone-based fireworks. Nice use of modern tech. It still takes a lot of physical work to equip the drones with colored LEDs, lay…
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Breaking Westphalia
Continuing the theme of pathological abstraction. Northern rebellion and Southern secession, written in 1904 by Ewing, answers and verifies several of my long-running questions. Ewing covers the Kansas terrorists in fine detail, verifying my historical and personal conclusions. Ewing also looks closely at the process of federation in 1776. He finds that the 13 colonies…
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Percy also predicted…
I’ve been repeatedly advertising Walker Percy’s 1971 ‘Love in the Ruins’ as the precise dystopian prediction of 2020. In his strange mystical way he managed to predict all relevant points. Smartphones intentionally crazifying us, Neuralink, “merciful” eugenics aimed especially at the elderly (KILL GRANNY!) and even electric Toyotas and Barack Obama. While advertising Percy in…
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A hint of parliament?
Email spam from Speaker Mike, always addressed to Friend, still dominates my inbox. It beats all the usual Camp Lejeune and GERMAN SEX RITUAL and Leaf Filter spam. (Incidentally, Leaf Filter is a real company. I’ve seen their truck heading for a job.) Now Friend is getting competing speakerspam from Hakeem Jeffries, the D competitor…
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Trying another converger
So far all the alleged “real news” providers have quickly converged to Deepstate. Most showed their true colors almost immediately. I’ll give Tucker Carlson a chance. He’s starting with the correct business model, purely subscription, no advertising. Ad-based media has NEVER been conducive to real news. Ad-based newspapers were always one-sided. When commercial radio started…
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Proves my point
The Christians are bashing the pres of Harvard for doing EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED HER TO DO until right now. Before October they were bashing university presidents for opposing free speech. Now the Harvard pres is supporting free speech as the Christians wanted, but supporting it for people the Christians hate. This idiocy proves my…
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Hits all the nails
Rushfield hits ALL the nails on the head in one massive all-consuming all-explaining sentence. He’s talking about the entertainment industry’s death rattle, specifically the strike shutdown. = = = = = START QUOTE: There are a lot of people who were squeezed out of the profession and the city by the shutdown, who will never…
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Speaking of metrology…
Speaking of metrology, here’s a cute use of measurement. From now on we'd like everyone to report their snow measurements in units of corgis😉 https://t.co/7A8HlPnKKZ — NWS Spokane (@NWSSpokane) December 11, 2023
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Victory over VE
WW2 ended precisely and meaningfully with VE and VJ day. Deepstate swore NEVER AGAIN to let a war end. From then on, all wars would continue forever, and the agencies and budgets needed to conduct the wars would go on forever. Korea wasn’t meant to end. Ike ended the active part and left our soldiers…
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Misdirected
Big Entertainment is fading. The tech tyrants who bought it know it’s fading. They’re happy to let it fade. That’s why they bought it. LBO. The Hollywood unions acquired solid contracts from the dying dinosaur, but the contracts don’t mean much. The contracts will help the dinosaur to fade, and the tech tyrants will be…
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What’s a door for?
We’re seeing another burst of intentional misunderstanding by economists. This particular idiocy has been going on since the 90s. Economists say that “the economy” is performing beautifully. All of their numbers are going in the correct direction. The Dow is going up to the moon. Bitcoin is going up to the moon. Bezos is flying…
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Hoel’s insight
Now that the OpenAI soap opera has turned out to be solely a Microsoft soap opera, Erik Hoel writes a rigorous economic discussion of the true potential of AI. He reaches two parallel conclusions: (1) The jobs that AI can replace are low-wage jobs or ‘open-source’ jobs like editing Wikipedia or writing drab repetitive music.…
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All themes at once!
Just for fun, here’s a news item that fits all of my current themes at the same time. = = = = = START QUOTE: A northern Minnesota electric cooperative is going after a couple for their alleged plot to siphon hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of energy for two bitcoin farms. The civil suit…
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Development directions
Completely random and irrelevant thought, stirred by a good sleep. I was pondering the tendency of towns to develop in only one direction. Sometimes the direction is forced by geography like a lake or mountain. When it’s not forced, the reasons are harder to figure out. Ponca and Manhattan both developed in one direction. In…
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