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Some companies have learned.
The corporations who haven’t yet figured out QT are properly making news and causing boycotts. It’s worth noting that SOME big corporations have caught the wind change and altered their steering. Starting around 2018, USBank and Citibank both used the same rotating set of splash screens for their logins. The pictures showed aggressively Die-Verse and…
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Mabel would be proud
The 1920 phone operators didn’t win their fight against Strowger. One of the Hollywood unions, the Directors Guild, just won a fight against the new Strowger. Groundbreaking agreement confirming that AI is not a person and that generative AI cannot replace the duties performed by members. They also gained improvements in royalties and residuals, which…
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Palate cleanser…
I’m barnstorming the semifinal install and check of all courseware modules, mixing new ones, reprocessed old ones, and unprocessed old ones. As I run through each lesson, I’m reminded again of the remarkable engineering in our anatomy. Time for a break. Here’s a piece of engineering in the palate and pharynx. For orientation, this picture…
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Trying to clarify
Inspired by Mabel, trying to clarify my thinking about the line between publisher and common carrier. First: Section 230 of the Communications Act was a bad piece of “law”, undoing a very old balance and a very old distinction. In the 1990s the new online publishers like Yahoo and Myspace didn’t look like newspapers, so…
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Rehankhilling, dehankhilling
Since March I’ve been doing longer neighborhood walks, inspired by Beatrix to reconnect the physical world. During the NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP period I was restricting walks to one standard path, operating in SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Also, my walking capacity is much longer now after cutting down on carbs, inspired by…
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Was Mabel traumatized?
Big Tech still relies on human judgment, but it CAN’T POSSIBLY TOLERATE hiring Americans and paying them decent money. So it hires cheap slaves in Africa. These slaves have a moral sense, unlike ChatGPT, and their moral sense is bombarded by constant contact with angry Americans. Why are the Americans angry? Because we’ve been kicked…
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The first metricator
An incidental mention in an old Inland Printer led to this strange book. The American Accomptant, by Chauncey Lee, pub 1797 in Vermont. Lee was trying to metricate everything, and he succeeded with money. The rest of his proposal didn’t get anywhere. He distinguished Vulgar measures from his proposed Federal measures. In each case he…
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Sure enough
I’ve wisely avoided paying attention to beer since I stopped drinking in 1990. Today, just for curiosity, I walked down the beer aisle in Safeway. Sure enough, most brands are half taken, while Bud Light is untouched. Last week I observed one of the few Bud buyers, who is precisely the exception that proves the…
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Who are they fooling?
DailyMail is showing some alleged logbooks kept by the prison “guards” who were “guarding” Epstein in 2018. I find the FORM of the logs hard to believe. The “guards” were allegedly making a note every 15 minutes all day and night. The log is in an old-fashioned blue lined school notebook, and each 15-minute time…
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Modern version
Somebody once said that politics is Hollywood for the ugly. The modern version: Politics is Tiktok for the insane. The public parts of politics serve ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTION. Congress and the executive have deliberately surrendered their own legal power to the courts and Deepstate. When they couldn’t surrender it to another branch, they placed non-legal…
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Still there
Wandering through the Historic Enid facebook site, I was reminded again of the lost art of bricklaying. Enid’s bricklayers were especially talented. Decided to feast on brick art, found a book in Googlebooks. One chapter is devoted to patented interlock methods. Showed a house in Sweden built with the Ideal Rolok method: This style is…
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Reciprocal realism
Now that QT is nearly done collapsing the Bitcoin bubble, there’s much less material for snark. One thing still holds true: Polistra’s Reciprocal Realism Rule. Realism(bitcoin) = 1 / Realism(world) Writers who see the world in stark clarity fall for bitcoin, or shill for bitcoin. Writers who see bitcoin clearly are lunatics on all other…
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Christie’s unique talent
DeSantis started his campaign with a bizarre “unique” qualification, entirely skipping his REAL qualification. He said that he was the only candidate who could serve two terms, while Trump could serve only one term. Every adult citizen can serve two terms. Christie could advertise a genuinely unique superpower. “If you’re tired of an elderly president…
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Another stupid thought
Looking again at Janelle’s wonderful tic-tac-toe games with ChatGPT, where Chat confidently loses and “pompously” explains how each of its blatantly losing patterns is a definite unbeatable win. New thought: This duplicates a very old swindle in gambling. The scammer rigs the game in FAVOR of the mark, letting the mark win a meaningful amount…
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New stupid thought
Random thought, seems wrong, but maybe worth writing down… Thinking again about the peculiarity of the partisan divide on the “virus”. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were developed and scheduled by BUSH appointees acting on a 2005 command by BUSH. The lockdowns and ballgags and needles were implemented and mandated by TRUMP. The anti-Trump…
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