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Hollywood still isn’t learning
Celebrities who dare to question war are being kicked out. Dammit, ordinary people are tired of all this shit. Wars, “viruses”, “genders”, “racism”, all isms. Tired of politicians who destroy the world instead of solving problems. Hollywood, your job is ENTERTAINMENT. You’re not supposed to add more shit. You’re supposed to provide RELIEF from the…
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Useful timeline and landmark
Denyse points to this article about peer review. It’s headlined as a call for transformation, but it starts from a fake premise. The authors are puzzled that peer review doesn’t do what it was “supposed to do”. They do show a beautifully exponential timeline of the tenure fraud, and they bring out an important landmark…
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Still good advice
Continuing on the value of condensation. From an 1899 book Making a Country Newspaper: = = = = = START QUOTE: Newspaper English to be good must be simple and concise. Clearness and brevity of statement are all-important. This does not imply that the narrative should be limited to a few facts. On the other…
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If you’re doing it that way…
In Laura Shin’s reporting on Sammy’s testimony, she describes a setup for monitoring accounts. Sammy had one “trading engine” for running the bets in his betting parlor, and another “risk engine” for checking the bets against account limits for each customer. He claimed that the “risk engine” was slow in responding when the bets hit…
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Features
It’s fashionable to mock Youtube Shorts and Tiktok as catering to modern short attention spans. True except for modern. Entertainment has always provided brief moments and quick distractions for people who can’t devote several hours of intense concentration to a novel or an opera or a Gone With The Wind. Lately I’ve been talking about…
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Odd gimmicks
I’ve been enjoying the Jam Handy Chevrolet newsreels lately. Nice mix of features. Each episode includes pretty girls, activity in Death Valley, fishermen, unusual pets, school safety, and big construction projects. This 1937 episode focuses on trailer living, which was one solution to Depression unemployment. The text doesn’t overly glamorize the lifestyle, making it clear…
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Sidetalkers
Saagar and Krystal agree on the absurdity of ‘open letters’ and ‘petitions’. Why bother sending an open letter to the president telling him to do what he’s already doing? Or the opposite? Presidents don’t read petitions. This is a fine example of the Sucker Filter Corollary that I heard from some political strategist back in…
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More on C-Tactile
First, reprinting from a month ago: = = = = = START REPRINT: Yasuko has produced a huge number of tutorials using acupressure and similar methods to improve mood and health. This one turned out to be surprisingly effective: Is C-Tactile proper science? Yes. Exactly. = = = = = START QUOTE: The human equivalent…
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Used to be a job
Listening to the new breed of journalists covering Sammy. They had to get along without their iPhone mental prostheses. They’re doing a fair job of taking notes on paper, but they admit that they can’t keep up all the time. This used to be a standard job for shorthand stenographers. I wonder if anyone thought…
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Comparison
Comparing Sammy vs Elizabeth. Initially I treated both of these fraudsters as the same personality type: Professional Criminal. I’ve understood this type since prison taught me in 1969. The pro criminal MUST do everything the cheating way, the dishonest way. If there’s an honest way to do a task that takes one minute and costs…
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True and important
EnidBuzz has a meme: A southern goodbye is saying bye 20 times and standing around talking for another half hour while slowly inching your way toward the door. True and important. I noticed this as a child but didn’t associate it with broader culture. I thought it was just the way our family did things.…
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WordPress hacks
Since this blog is on WordPress, I should pass along this notice from Protos. A malware hack is using WordPress blogs, or more specifically websites based on WordPress with their own logins and storefronts and so on. The hacker presents a popup that seems to be coming from your browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc) asking you…
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Master class
In this live segment Tiffany is unintentionally giving a Master Class in real journalism. She illustrates the correct characteristics and behaviors and forms of thinking. Wide open about her own biases and preferences, willing to get deeply personal with sources, always keeping the facts STRICTLY separate from all personalities and preferences. If any professional journalists…
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Losing the argument
Greg Lukianoff works for FIRE, the defender of free speech on campus. He’s on a crusade to convince skeptics that cancel culture is unique and special. I’m in the skeptical camp on that point. I know that censorship is normal, and I also know that many of the “canceleds” were either fired for other reasons…
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The hologram
Reprint from Nov 2016, shortly after Trump was “elected”. Nothing has changed except that I’m older now and exhausted from three years of TRUMP’S Nazi torture and strangulation, so I can’t write as well now. = = = = = START REPRINT: I’m still impressed by the fireworks aimed at a shimmering hologram of “Trump”.…
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