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Natural, not natural
Advertising is natural. Most plants and animals advertise either positively or negatively. Plants create colors and smells and electrostatic fields to attract pollinators. Male animals use color and smell and sound to attract females and scare off competitors. Some are false advertisers, disguising themselves as poisonous or attractive or big. Basing a business on advertising…
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Mirror image
A few days ago Terry Mattingly, an experienced religion reporter, was complaining that media doesn’t want to know anything about religion. The NYTimes recently advertised for a religion writer who had absolutely no connection or knowledge about religion. Today Ted Gioia, an experienced music writer, complains about the EXACT OPPOSITE situation. He says music critics…
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Desistance in action.
Here’s a beautiful example of desistance. The poetry editor of the NYTimes resigns from her prestigious high-status position to protest the continued backing of insane useless wars. As befits a poetry editor, she declares the cause in elegant form. My definition of Desistance, written before the “virus” hoaxocaust and still precisely valid.
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Radartoons, sort of
The local Weather Bureau posted a map of mountain snowpack. This is an El Nino winter, blessedly warmish up to now, so the snowpack is properly below average. It’s a good use of graphics, nice distinct colors and readable labels. It reminded me instantly of the kingdoms and duchies and bishoprics of Europe in the…
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All guesses wrong
Satan Altman joined Microsoft. All guesses, including mine, were wrong. It’s still a good soap opera. MS does not belong to the Move Fast And Break Things camp. MS has always been disciplined by the needs of its customers who use its products for real work. This morning I’ve been thinking about a new computer…
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Anderson and Foy
A Redditor in Europe is complaining that universities are becoming more like secondary schools. Previously the Euro tradition put all the weight on the test. If you aced the final test it didn’t matter whether you attended the lectures. Now they’re requiring attendance at every class. I don’t know if his complaint is valid, but…
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Speaking of swindles and patterns
From March 2020, linked in previous item about confidence. At that time the full horror of the “virus” holocaust hadn’t been rolled out yet, but my prediction based on (ahem) previous patterns was correct. = = = = = START REPRINT: When I call Inslee and Newsom ‘holocausters’ I’m using the word both literally and…
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LLM analyzing LLM
Erik Larson presents a guest post about Satan Altman by a European bank executive who manages financial Big Data systems. The author delves into some details about AI that I hadn’t heard before. Specifically and rather oddly, ChatGPT doesn’t break language into words or morphemes, and doesn’t break math into the words of math language…
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Experience is the only teacher
I enjoy stories informed by real experience in unfamiliar areas. Mattingly is discussing why media doesn’t cover religion properly. He starts with the basic social divide that outsiders can see: Modern journalists are educated elites, thus extremely secular. He also mentions several internal factors that outsiders couldn’t imagine. 1. Editors hated dealing with religion because…
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If they want us to believe…
Naomi Wolf has always moved in elite NYC circles. When she departed from elite orthodoxy about the “virus” the elites kicked her out. Now she sees the orthodox inquisitors starting to doubt their monstrous crimes, starting to feel embarrassed that they were fooled. Her new book is centered on CONFIDENCE, which is a crucial factor…
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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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