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Gotchapower
Listening again to a 1950 Hollywood gossip show called Hollywood Byline. This episode is valuable because it’s uncut, including the offstage chatting and negotiating among the actors and producers. You can tell easily when the onstage parts start and end; all the voices are clear and organized and grammatical. I was comparing this on/off variable…
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Where are the guilds, part 435438543895
Art historians and teachers are noticing that AI is replacing real masterpieces in google searches. Forgery is extremely old. Galleries and museums have been fighting human copiers and forgers for hundreds of years, and they’ve usually won the fight. Why aren’t they even TRYING to fight against mechanical forgers? This is the key variable in…
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Restitution?
BBC thinks Holmes should pay restitution to her “victims”. Crap. Her investors are ALL super-rich demons, including Kissinger himself. A million is like a penny for them. If we’re trying to create abstract justice, we should simply leave the pennies unrefunded. At first I was ambiguous about this case. By now I’m absolutely and fully…
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Did Morse know Delia?
Thinking about Delia Bacon…. Morse was part of the same circle as Hawthorne and Poe and Emerson. Was he also influenced by Delia? One of the biographies of Morse that I used in making models of his telegraph has a partial answer: = = = = = START QUOTE: It came out that he was…
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Who needs FDR when you’ve got Powell?
Via DailyMail: Goldman Sachs readies for a third round of lay-offs that will include some partners in the next few weeks after slashing more than 3,000 positions in the last year as investment banking deals drop off. It is CEO David Solomon’s attempts to cut costs as deal-making – the firm’s major revenue source –…
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Delia’s gone, one more round
Sam Kahn writes in New Atlantis about Delia Bacon, a forgotten figure who was at the center of the American creative burst in the 1840s. She was taught by Beecher and influenced Emerson and Hawthorne and Poe. She wasn’t related to Francis Bacon, but spent her life trying to establish that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s work…
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Same old game, same complaint
Kim Iversen (starting at 30:00) echoes my bitching about DeSantis’s campaign, in the same words. Later, around 42 minutes, Kim interviews a Florida schoolteacher who describes the grotesque and deadly effects of STRANGLING KIDS, which are the same effects that the RFK distractors attribute to the needles. DeSantis went along with the mandates at first,…
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Hindsight?
Timothy Calkins, associate chair of the marketing department at Northwestern Kellogg, told Fox Business: ‘I think we’ll see more brands be very cautious about getting into the middle of some of these really controversial issues. I think in hindsight a team would say, you really don’t want to get involved in that controversial an issue.’…
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Not crude, just dumb
Via DailyMail: = = = = = START QUOTE: A CNN segment discussing the impending prison sentence of disgraced biotech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes took a strange turn, when a guest went rogue… Larry Levine, who is described as a ‘consultant who assists prospective inmates transition to prison life,’ was invited on to discuss his predictions…
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Hadn’t thought of this
Wolf Richter offers his usual hardass realism about the “debt ceiling” nonsense, illustrated by his usual hardass graph, a picture worth 20 trillion words. In discussing the impact of normal interest on taxes and federal debt, he brings up a point that I hadn’t thought of: On the other hand, fixed-income investors that buy those…
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Maybe we understand
Bhattacharya is trying to set up a “commission” to find facts which don’t need to be found and won’t have any effect when found. Before 2020 everyone knew how to deal with viruses, and everyone was already dealing with viruses competently. What happened in 2020 wasn’t a virus, it was a literal precise holocaust. A…
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Today is
Today is Learn about Compositing Day! Oh boy! Chases, quoins, imposing stones, ludlows, forms, slugs, pica poles, friskets, proofreading… Oh. After proofreading, today is Learn About Composting Day. Poop.
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Authorship?
Another day, another point-miss. = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s estimated that 500,000 to 1 million books are published each year, and that’s excluding self-published material. The publishing market has become saturated, with the average book selling less than 200 copies. But suppose one person could “generate” not just a few books in…
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Reprint from 2014
Suggested by the Fleischmann deltas in previous item. STYLES AND STACKS. Continuing yesterday’s discussion of potential differences in electronics and economics. Thinking again of these alternate ways to describe a system. You can start from two TYPES of force or source, two separate poles or centerpoints…. or you can treat local pieces of the system…
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Good prison
Reading the DailyMail account of Bryan federal prison where Holmes is starting her time. I’m impressed! Bryan is a GOOD PRISON, doing pretty much everything the right way. = = = = = START QUOTE: New inmates normally spend their first three months working in the kitchen, which is considered one of the most demanding…
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