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An experiment
Bush is back, with a literal repeat of all the 9/11 shit. I was a proper rabid Islam-hater from 2001 to 2006, then SLOWLY peeled back the idiocy. Writing this blog helped to reorganize my thoughts, but I didn’t fully recover from neocon idiocy until I unplugged the TV in 2011. The new/old Bush censors…
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Sort of refreshing
Satan Altman has been fired from his own OpenAI. Cofounder Brockman also “quit” at the same time. Rumors are treating it as the usual “sex” crap, but “sex” crap is ALWAYS a cover story. This is interesting and sort of refreshing in one way. Tech tyrants generally control EVERYTHING. Their corporations have boards, but the…
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Wise woman
In this clip Yasuko is showing a ‘hand reflexology’ trick for slowing down anger. Those indirect pressure points don’t work for me, but her basic advice about anger is deeply and eternally wise, and also good science. = = = = = START YASUKO QUOTE: It looks and feels like people are getting snappier as…
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70 years in reverse
Here’s a much more serious early adopter from the same 1954 REA news. = = = = = START QUOTE: The Chairman, General Manager, and staff members of the Atomic Energy Commission met recently with the Administrator and staff members of the Rural Electrification Administration, the Administrator’s policy advisory committee and the committee on atomic…
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Honk for service
Speaking of farm automation, here’s an early adopter. From the REA news in 1954. = = = = = START QUOTE: Farmers may be spending more time in bed winter mornings. A new device has been perfected that will feed the stock for them entirely automatically. The new gadget – it’s called a Robot Automatic…
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Reprint on cochlear purpose
Statcounter showed a random reader got here via Bing, which is unusual. Probably looking for some combination of words that could be used for SEO purposes, but the item Bing found is worth reprinting. It’s the only halfway smart idea I’ve had in recent years, and I’d completely forgotten it. = = = = =…
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Not the same WE part 2
The overblown love for HUGE ancient cathedrals and castles is stupid and dangerous. It helps the rulers maintain their monopoly on lethal status and lethal force. Here’s another example. Hohenzollern Castle in Germany, on top of a bluff, was built specifically to defend against competing aristocrats and most of all to impress and OPPRESS the…
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REA sync
I’m superstitious about syncs and resonances. When I run into a nice resonance it presages better times. Browsing through REA publications in Googlebooks. Because they’re public domain Google has full view on more recent editions of the REA magazine, not just pre-Steamboat Willie as with most magazines. In a ’62 edition I caught a familiar…
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Well, I can build that myself!
More from the REA news in 1940. The New Deal was all about DECENTRALIZING power. Henry Wallace hammered on the theme endlessly, and agencies like WPA and REA and TVA were serious about letting local coops and companies determine their own way of using the federal funding. Every aspect of their structure and rhetoric was…
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Lost empathy
Via WSJ: Key Witness at Sam Bankman-Fried Trial to Launch New Crypto Exchange Ex-FTX lawyer Can Sun and other former company executives want the new exchange to allow customers to verify holdings at any time Well, I just lost my slight sympathy for those characters. They’re all incurable professional criminals. Now they’re playing the classic…
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Formerly common knowledge
At its height the Rural Electrification Admin published a monthly magazine for its coops and members. Like any good newspaper, the magazine included human interest features along with news about progress and problems in technology and management. = = = = = START QUOTE: Mr. Moulton’s cows are electrically cleaned every day with a resulting…
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In reality
Via EvoNews: A design company has named “Nature” to its board of directors. “Nature” is proxied by a wealthy environmentalist lawyer, the same type of nasty character as RFK jr. In reality, the lawyer represents hedge funds like Blackrock. What Larry Fink wants is what Nature wants by forceful definition. Larry Fink is Nature.
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The Memes ye shall always have
In ancient times memes were painted on rock. In the 1850s memes were novelty sliders in Magic Lanterns. In the 1900s memes were naughty or “novelty” postcards. In the 1970s xeroxed or mimeographed fake memos made the rounds among business offices. Now memes are purely digital. Same process, different technologies. Alter a picture, give it…
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No heroes
Random meandering… The entertainment writers are analyzing Disney’s overuse of the same superheroes, which worked for a while but finally went flat. Supposedly every boy read comics about superheroes. I didn’t. Never interested in role models or heroes. I did read Disney and Lantz comics, Mickey and Donald and Woody, until about age 9. Then…
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Not the same We.
The cultural preservers continually focus on giant cathedrals that took hundreds of years to build. This Twitter item says “we built that”. No we didn’t. The we who built it lived in an entirely different cultural and economic system. There’s no way we could recover the system that made such monuments possible, and such monuments…
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