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SAG, UAW, DAC
The Ankler notes frustration by two old labor activists who are unexpectedly members of SAG. Nader complains that he wrote letters to Fran and she didn’t answer, which seems cranky and whiny. He’s warning that AI is a serious threat, which is redundant because SAG is already treating AI as deadly serious. I don’t see…
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Not worth the price.
Kirn and associates have started up a printed newspaper. Since I’ve been mouthing off about real printing and real newspapers for a long time, decided to put my moneying where my mouthing is. Got the first issue. It’s nicely wrapped and nicely printed, but it doesn’t have ANYTHING I couldn’t find on the web. No…
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Radartoons
Haven’t done one of these in a while. We’re being invaded by the entire Western Hemisphere, starting with snow from Canada! And here’s the bombing in progress. First snow of the season.
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Newtonian politics
The current spate of canceling academics for holding balanced and objective views is being compared to McCarthyism. In a general sense this is valid but it misses the important TIMELINE of the HUAC/McCarthy period. HUAC started its inquisition in 1947. ALL of Congress was on the same side. It wasn’t Joe McCarthy’s “indecency” vs the…
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I started with Foy.
This is a clever approach to Big Data. The researchers realized that data compressors like ZIP and MP3 work by predicting what comes next. They developed a simple prediction engine, just a few lines in Python, by using GZIP to generate the predictions. No need for a giant LLM, no need to pay Satan Sam…
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Branded content came first
Via the Ankler: While it’s certainly not a new form of advertising, a confluence of events within the entertainment industry has set the stage for branded content to make an evolutionary leap over the next few years, according to a panel of experts at an Ankler panel at Advertising Week New York in Manhattan last…
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Reprint from last month
Polls consistently show that people are tired of war and tired of being beaten up and muzzled and needled and disemployed by Share Value capitalists. Across the world most countries are quickly moving away from the warmongers and Share Value capitalists. From Africa to Latin America to India to Russia to China, the old strong…
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Ledgers all the way
Tiffany also has a Substack column, which she doesn’t use as heavily as Twitter and Youtube. She does put some documents there. This one is especially informative. It’s a document Sammy wrote to her, outlining part of his defense strategy. It’s crystal clear, not fuzzy at all. Good old double-entry bookkeeping, familiar to an old…
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Clarifier
Randomly noticed a question/answer on Quora that clarifies a lot of things. The writer was not intending to clarify, but nevertheless his semantic point removes a lot of blinders. The point as stated: Zionism is just Jewish nationalism. We don’t give special names to other nationalisms because we don’t argue about them. The fact in…
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Zenith leftover
(Redated and reposted) This duplex should have gone in the Zenith set. At that time I showed the Trans-Oceanic in a generic house. Now I’ve made the proper duplex, so will more or less repeat the text with proper pictures. The duplex also has a coffee connection and a printing connection, so it does fit…
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Salute to cafes
(Redated and reposted after some additions) Last week I noticed a picture of an old workingman’s cafe in Enid. The picture was self-explanatory. Why did little cafes do a good business? Because they were right next to downtown apartments and rooms where most people lacked kitchens. Decided to do a proper salute to cafes and…
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Another trust restorer
Sailer points to a university president who has learned the Bud Light lesson. When you’re running a business or a college or a government, your SOLE goal is serving your employees and customers. The business or college or government has specific well-defined products. Beer or research or safe neighborhoods. As long as you work SOLELY…
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Friend spam
All spam messages are now addressed to Friend. Even the supposedly high-dollar politicians start every message with Friend. I’m getting peculiar repeated messages asking me to “endorse” Jim Jordan for some meaningless office in meaningless Congress. Jordan was already rejected three times for the meaningless office, but Friend is still supposed to “endorse” him. Friend,…
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Witches and trust
Mentioned witches and trust yesterday. Here’s a rehash of a couple earlier items relating to both. = = = = = From 2017, dealing with the RUSSIAN_HACKING witch hunt, now resumed after the hunters satisfied their killing frenzy with the “virus”. = = = = = START REHASH: We have two competing witch-hunts underway. The…
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