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Big Bezos is watching
AOL’s mail was recently remodeled to feature an ad along with every inbox. Today’s ad reveals what we already know: the ad servers are always watching. Amazon sees that I’ve been writing about Zenith. Admittedly this isn’t nearly as intrusive as the ads that respond to what you’ve been whispering near your cellphone, but I…
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Bungalow topology
On yesterday’s walk through an unfamiliar block, noticed an atypical house. It’s a rancher turned sideways, with the narrow end forward. These houses were a common way of creating ‘variety’ in the 50s, but not common around here. First thought: Ranchers were originally bungalows turned sideways, so a rancher turned sideways is just a bungalow…
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Needs more AI
Noticed this on Reddit: I was in Virginia this week and made some subs. Just edited this piece and wrote “Small town Virginia”, now its under Niantic review. I forgot about “Virgin” being a no-no word. It has too be frustrating for those who live there or West Virginia. I don’t know what Niantic is,…
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Repetition isn’t bad
Denyse at MindMatters says: Hollywood has been developing a culture that welcomes AI-generated content with its tendency to pressure writers to fit a formulaic narrative structure instead of encouraging them to pursue real creativity and collaboration. Well, this is hardly new. Mass entertainment has always been a repetitive product, and that’s a good thing. Humans…
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Reversion to preversion
RFK has turned the “conservatives” back into environmentalists, which is where the movement started. Before 1968, the OCD obsession with dirt was mainly associated with Birchers and evangelicals. See preverting my vital bodily fluids and see Late Great Planet Earth. Suddenly the “conservatives” are TRUSTING Federal reports when the reports make the case for Horrible…
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Zenith origins
Earlier this year I modeled some of Zenith’s more famous and interesting products. How did Zenith start? It was a classic garage inventor story. Ralph Mathews had a unique talent for mechanical invention, and he also had pretty good connections and luck. He started the right business at the right time. Mathews was building and…
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Another pop, another 2019 reprint
Another 2019 reprint, this time with a new thought appended. = = = = = START REPRINT: KSHS has resumed adding new items regularly. One of the new items, a store ledger, triggered curiosity which led to a much more interesting older item. A ledger from the store that was outfitting fur traders in the…
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Popped, so reprinted
For no particular reason, this concept popped into what’s left of my mind. Decided to reprint in honor of the pop. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: I wonder what Sam Johnson would think. He defined a lexicographer as a harmless drudge. Modern lexicographers are mass murderers. Words have always been weapons for…
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Dixie frustration
The Dixie takeover was already underway before the “virus” NAZI TORTURE CAMP advanced it dramatically. Governors who assisted this takeover have a huge argument on their side. They could be saying: I gave my state peace and prosperity and freedom, while other governors were giving their states riots and strangulation and unemployment. If you elect…
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Making the case, fucking the case
Perfect contrast between two pieces on the writers strike and AI and such. (1) The Ankler flawlessly makes the case that AI is worth worrying about, and a strike to control it is worth supporting. He rigorously avoids all politics and religion and cultural crap, following the oldest persuasive advice to perfection. Fairness Doctrine all…
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More Emerson
Demons have locked themselves out of the house. Via DailyMail: The economic center of the US is now in Dixie. = = = = = START QUOTE: Two-thirds of all job growth in the country is now concentrated in the Southeast, and it is home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing cities. The change in…
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Will he learn?
Nathanael Blake at TheFederalist has encountered a Learning Moment. He’s a total neocon who suddenly realizes that aggressive free trade gets in the way of aggressive militarism. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrial policy is defense policy. The ability to build is essential to our national defense, but our leaders have spent decades…
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The Jones not taken
American Radio Library has added a few issues of Radio Topics from the early ’20s. One article was highlighting services provided by radio. First a bakery was using one-way radio to dispatch its electric trucks: More importantly, businesses were using radio as a premium in the Duane Jones sense, and sometimes a self-liquidating premium, paying…
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Wouldn’t care to have as friends
One of those supershort Ripley features from 1958 shows us how far we’ve gone down the road of mass hypochondria. Intro: In a moment I’ll tell you the fascinating story of a group of people who you wouldn’t care to have as friends. After the pause for ad insertion: Among the many strange religious sects…
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