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Morale didn’t improve
Wars end when the aggressor runs out of immediately needed resources. No more bullets, no more bombs, no more gasoline, no more food. Aggressive empires end when the war machine runs out of human resources and popular support. No more usable soldiers, no fighting spirit. We’ve reached that point. We no longer build anything except…
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Innovative?
I was looking in this 1962 journal from the Naval Research Lab, trying to find gadgets and gimmicks for my next graphics project. One issue in the volume started with this elegant bit of parody and wordplay. Transcribing: = = = = = START QUOTE: Computers and Data Processors, North America A Fourth-Generation, Hybrid, Self-Organizing,…
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Everybody did get stoned.
I was dubious at first about Sohrab’s Compact Mag. It seemed low on Shannon information. The magazine has improved, and it’s worth the price now. Many of its articles offer insights or information that I couldn’t acquire by experience. In this piece on the drug-infested Tech Tyrants, the author focuses on a cult leader named…
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The only thing left
Pointed by The Ankler, this chart shows how Big Entertainment is collapsing from its own idiocy. 2022 TV RECAP: Live @NFL games accounted for 82 of the 100 most-watched TV broadcasts of 2022 Full list: https://t.co/Ff6wWI15Hg pic.twitter.com/zZm4QipheX — Sportico (@Sportico) January 6, 2023 The 100 biggest events on broadcast TV this year. 96 are sports,…
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Integity
The spam from Speaker Mike addressed to Friend continues to roll in hot and heavy. Now they’re barraging Friend with paper spam as well. Friend knows that “Elections” are a myth, so “election integrity materials” are similar to “Santa Claus integrity materials” or “Jackalope integrity materials”. You’d think they would pay more attention to SPELLING…
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Weird WordPress glitch /// No, Firefox glitch.
WordPress often introduces bugs in its UI, then fixes them after a few days. This week’s bug is a new trick. It seems to treat me as “halfway signed in”. I’m able to write and publish new items, but when I try to see the preview while writing, the preview looks like this: Also, it…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Metawait 2
At a fixed timepoint in every episode of Lady Edgar’s official propaganda outlet This is your FBI, the smarmy Special Agent slaps his forehead and says “Wait! Why didn’t I notice this before?” Here’s one of those moments. For many years I’ve been focusing on ZERO TAX as the sole purpose of Repooflicans and Tech…
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King Solomon’s rosary
One of those supershort Ripley pieces tells a strange story. A village in India commonly received rain including pre-drilled beads. The natives gathered them and strung them into ‘King Solomon’s Rosaries’. Several old books note that Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists use rosaries; the Buddhist version is well known. Finally found the source of Ripley’s story.…
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Reminds me of
Another of those Natl Assn of Mfrs films. This one is mainly about uses of ultrasonics. Many of them are familiar now, detecting flaws in aluminum or embryos, and cleaning surfaces. Here’s a use that didn’t seem to go anywhere, but the experiment is dramatically effective: Ultrasonic sound breaks up fog and smog. Reminds me…
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Wrong variable
Still in pointless rant mode. Tired of fake outrage and fake surprise over government spying on its citizens, and “warrantless” wiretaps. First: All governments spy on their citizens. Knowing what the people are doing and thinking is a necessary INPUT to government. Feedback loops are necessary for any functional machine. This input used to be…
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DGAF
Speaking of lost opportunities, got an email this morning from antiwar.com, asking for a donation. NO. I stopped reading them in 2020 because they ignored the BIGGEST AND MOST EVIL WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY, the war of all governments against all people. If you can’t oppose the biggest war of all, you’re not against war.…
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Kirn vs Hart
Still annoyed at the lost opportunity of Kirn’s “newspaper”. When you take the trouble to print something on paper, and boast that the material is uncensored and unrepetitive, you should BE uncensored and unrepetitive. You should be DAMN SURE that everything you print is entirely new, representing original viewpoints that aren’t available in any of…
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Maybe too fair
Via Eurekalert. = = = = = START QUOTE: Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found…
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Will they change the script?
This Bloomberg podcast raises an interesting point. The Biden administration has been pushing HARD for anti-trust regulation, which is an unquestionably good move. They’re even pushing harder than I would in some cases! Google has a natural monopoly on searching, acquired by doing the job far better than others. This is not predatory. At an…
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