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Hall of one-way mirrors
Krystal is shocked that a behavioral researcher was caught faking data in a study on honesty. Krystal thinks that the government agencies who use such research will be misled. Nope. Government agencies conduct their own research, which is always VASTLY more thorough and accurate than the research allowed in academia. I saw a shadow of…
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Not ironic
Bari Weiss’s big substack is featuring a series of articles on woke judges in high school debate, written by a debate coach who is trying to set up an alternate non-woke board of judges. I took debate in junior high, around 1963. It wasn’t a huge influence but it did give me practice in serious…
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Silly chemicals
The latest OCD craze is “atrazine makes you gay”. Apparently RFK is pushing this one. I don’t know what Atrazine is. You don’t need any details to dismiss ALL these trace chemicals. Water supplies have an infinite variety of trace chemicals, different from city to city and day to day. We only test for a…
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Two reprints
I get a sense that Google is trying to ‘fade’ some of the old blog by making the images unlinkable. Probably superstition, but still feels like the right time to reprint two old entries together. From 2019 then from 2010. = = = = = START 2019: While brushing teeth last night I happened to…
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LBOs all the way down
Rich people are gangsters and extortionists and murderers. They destroy businesses and cities and countries in order to buy cheap. Rich people never pay. They always receive. They are black holes. Soros has been destroying entire countries for 30 years in order to short their currencies. Remove a stable government, turn the country into a…
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Two inflection points
Ryan Burge discusses the shifting correlation between party and religion. One of his graphs agrees with what I’ve seen. ‘The Partisanship of White Christians’ shows a flat line until 1980, when Christians abruptly turned Repooflican. I saw this change close up. Lee Atwater converted Christians from Americans to Israelis. Former hippies were suddenly Reaganites because…
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Reprint on swamping
Reprint from 2021. = = = = = Swamping, flooding, same thing. Whitney Webb’s cohorts have written an informative article on Flooding The Zone. The article focuses on Edelman’s PR firm, the chief architect of the technique. Not really an epiphany. Sucker Filter was an epiphany. I had seen the results but was completely puzzled…
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Odd dynasty
After Trump was “elected” and before he imprisoned and strangled the world, I noticed an asymmetry in my spam email. The Trump side was exclusively DYNASTIC and ROYAL. The spammers wanted me to sign a birthday card for Lord Trump, or send good wishes to one of Trump’s mistresses or misters or wives or husbands.…
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When everything is political
Via Protos: A spa in Brooklyn is using the heat from bitcoin “mining” rigs to heat the water. Smart industries have ALWAYS found ways to reuse waste products and waste heat. Well-made machines do the same. Car engines use exhaust heat to pressurize the inlet oxygen. Locomotives use a diesel engine to run a generator…
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What were they smoking?
This year I’m trying to regain my analog world after the NAZI TORTURE CAMP is done for a while. Taking more walks and longer walks, looking at blocks I haven’t seen in years. Today I noticed a house for sale, fairly rare this year. It’s an ordinary ranch type, renovated by NVest. The renovation includes…
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1000 = 2000 complete.
Elon challenged Zuck to a duel and Zuck accepted. We’re now fully and officially back in 1000 AD, when feudal barons fought physically and led their troops on horseback. Henry VIII once wrestled the King of France in a similar semi-jocular fight, complete with allegedly special moves. One day, as the story goes, an enthusiastic…
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The artist as psychopath
Everyone knows that modern “artists” are evil. They believe the purpose of art is to create chaos and murder and pain and mayhem. Beautiful example. Christopher Nolan has claimed that early viewers of Oppenheimer have left the film ‘devastated’ and ‘unable to speak’. In his demonic eyes this is a good thing. Peasants must be…
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T Phlps cd
American Radio Library has started a section for Telegraph Age, a long-lasting magazine that ended up as Communications News. A 1903 issue includes several glowing praises for the Phillips Code, which I hadn’t heard of before. It was common among newsmen, and was apparently equal in speed to Pitman or Gregg shorthand. True shorthand is…
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Using motion as a sense
This is fascinating! Nematodes charge their bodies to jump by repulsion. They seem to use a bee’s self-created charge as an attraction in the other direction! = = = = = START QUOTE: When some nematode species jump, they tend to bend their body and change their posture before take-off, but C. elegans worms stand…
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Robber barons on strike
We have a nice clear contrast between two strikes currently underway. The Hollywood writers are striking for classic and understandable labor reasons. Too much unpaid work and AI threats to skill-estate. They may have picked the wrong TIME for a strike, since the directors and actors unions have already gained new contracts without striking. But…
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