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Soundscapes
Sarah Hepola’s latest smoky podcast is intensely based in NYC, with NYC sounds in the background. She’s discussing the difference between NYC and Dallas soundscapes, garbage trucks and jackhammers vs crickets and frogs. Reminded me of a couple items I’ve done on the subject. From 2022, a fable based in NYC’s earlier soundscape, dominated by…
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Inexcusable
Several articles are noting ChatGPT’s LIBELOUS habit of mixing and matching biographies. For instance, Brian Moore, an Australian mayor, is suing OpenAI for slander. In 2008 he worked in banking, and reported a money-laundering scheme to the authorities. ChatGPT insists with the full weight of authority that he was the CRIMINAL, not the WHISTLEBLOWER. This…
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Another zeitgeist flip?
Another interesting flip in the cultural and partisan landscape. The Hill thinks this is the year when past their prime women as defined by Don Lemon are in the spotlight. The zeitgeist is mocking a judgment by the PERFECT aristocrat. Lemon ticks ALL the Die-Verse boxes, and was a leading high priest of DNC and…
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More consequences of QT
Half-baked thought, continuing along the lines of WHERE ARE THE GODDAMN PHILOSOPHERS? Now that the free money of QE/ZIRP has dried up, many pointless projects and pointless IPOs are going away, starting with the huge totally pointless project of bitcoin. Corporations are suddenly realizing that they need customers. Free-money woke idiocy doesn’t work any more,…
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Baobab
The Episcopal denomination is rejuvenating itself by rejecting its decaying Western branch. This schism took a lot longer than other church renewals, probably because most of the money and property were controlled by the decadent branch. The healthy roots in Africa and Brazil, containing 85% of the church’s people, finally dismissed the money and issued…
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Trust ceiling
Still thinking about media, Batya, etc. Looked at a Gallup page on media trust to see if anything new is happening. Nothing fresh, but noticed this long-term graph that shows what media wants. Everyone says that Watergate was a shining example of Letting It All Hang Out, and renewed our trust in media. Nope. Watergate…
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God believes in ether
Until 1920 most discussion of electricity and radio was based on the assumption of an ether. Michelson-Morley DIDN’T wipe out the ether. It was wiped much later when quantum quackery took over the doctrines and creeds of “science”. Here’s a nice clear example from a 1904 book by Frederick Vreeland, the inventor of the weirdly…
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Nobody’s ever said it?
RFK appeared with Kim Iversen, and rather oddly discussed the firing of Carlson: “It’s kind of shocking that they threw him off. He was saying things that nobody has ever said on TV before. He was talking about advertisers dictating content — pharmaceutical advertisers getting newscasters on the networks to say things about vaccines that…
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Hersh the outsider
Hersh gets somewhat personal in this piece. He talks about his very brief job as Gene McCarthy’s press secretary. I read the article with curiosity since I had been campaigning for Gene at the same time. The article didn’t tell me anything new about McCarthy, but it did provide insight into Hersh himself. Hersh admits…
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Acolytes
Taibbi is ignorant, or more likely memoryholish, about the real history of Deepstate and censorship. Taibbi’s acolytes carry on the same fine tradition. A ‘guest article’ by Andrew Lowenthal complains about the modern “unprecedented” mixing of Deepstate and progressives: Twitter emails show consistent collaboration between military and intelligence officials and elite “progressives” from NGOs and…
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Immediately relevant
Linked in previous. After reading, it’s definitely worth reprinting. = = = = = START 2010 REPRINT: New book by Robert Whitaker. A real eye-opener. Basic theme: Psychiatry has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the drug companies, serving only to sell drugs. This development was not natural or accidental. Whitaker details the history of the…
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Destroying his own point
RFK is playing unscientific games with measurements. He has a strong overall point, but the details are based on “measurements” that constantly change. The argument is too easy to counteract with details. “We have the sickest generation in American history. We have the sickest children on Earth in this country. And by chronic disease, what…
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Old poetry
EnidBuzz asked about things your parents said. Most responses are the usual hardass but NECESSARY parental warnings. Some are squishy Christian stuff. A few are purely unique and poetic. Never heard any of them before. = = = = = I especially like the glad/mad. Good advice for a critter like me who always heads…
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Coke! It’s the…
What was that old slogan again? Admittedly, the use of Big Data in bottling makes sense, and is NOT the same thing as Generative AI. Watching for bad fills or impurities in glass is a proper task for cameras with complex visual software. It’s not a job that humans do well.
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Not weird to the addicts
Continuing from previous item. I remember that regular watchers of the “news” soap opera don’t find Lemon and Carlson weird at all. I was one of those regulars from 2000 to 2010. At the moment in 2011 when I finally tossed the TV after trying to “light beer” it for a year, I had a…
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