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Underground, undermud
I’ve been illustrating and animating the hair cells of the cochlea for work and for fun. The outer hair cells, which are also found in the semicircular canals, are designed to communicate and physically vibrate up to about 40 KC, possibly up to 100 KC. Steinheil’s ground telegraphy was DC, much like Morse except that…
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What would be familiar 2
In previous item I noted that a 1950’s writer would find today’s Hollywood landscape mostly familiar. How about a 1950’s Teamster? Even more familiar. The head of Teamsters in LA is Lindsay Dougherty, who literally wears Jimmy Hoffa on her sleeve. She declares absolute Teamster support for the writers strike in language that Jimmy would…
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What would be familiar?
Listening to continuing coverage of the writers strike. They’re mentioning all the companies that make movies and how the companies are handling the strike. What would a 1950s movie writer think if she tuned into this broadcast through an ionospheric timewarp? How would the Martian visitor explain it? Martian: Well, they’re striking against Paramount, NBC/Universal,…
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Vivek the magsman
This Vivek character is playing a weird game. First he claimed that Lincoln’s Genocide was about applying the 2nd amendment to blacks, which is loony. Now he proposes raising the “voting” age to 25, and requiring a literacy and citizenship test for “voting”. After two examples, a pattern emerges. He’s parodying everything Repooflicans say, as…
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Almost aptronym
Elon has appointed a full-fledged WEFoid to head Twitter. Yaccarino was in charge of the publicity campaign for ballgags and vaxes. (Her name should be Vaccarino for a perfect aptronym.) Now regular WEF programs can resume on Twitter, and the usual suspects can safely return. Not that they ever REALLY departed. The folks who foolishly…
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Today is Odometer Day!
Today is Odometer Day! Time for a reprint from Dec 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: In 1999 there was considerable hubbub over the Y2K bug in old programs, many of which were in COBOL. The language itself wasn’t busted; its date functions have four digits. But the early mainframe programmers in the…
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Who’s the bedbug 2
Latest pithy point from Kirn: It takes only moments for AI to “write” a book, but it will still take hours, even days, for a person to read one. It used to be the other way around; the writer labored far longer than the reader. It made reading books feel worthwhile, to know that. Now?…
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Who’s the bedbug?
Earlier I talked about Marx’s real purpose. He was a scholar, not a politician, and he was trying to disprove the economist theory of marginal utility. In theory every product is identical except for price, and consumers choose products SOLELY on price. The real world doesn’t work that way. Every product is different, just as…
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QT continues to solve problems
Yahoo notes that Beyond Meat, a pure QE cash-burning fake company, is on the way down. They miss the main problem, which I discussed in 2019. = = = = = START REPRINT: It’s been clear from the start that Tesla cultists are not truly green. They’re rich fuckheads who fly and drive all the…
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Gold rush observation
I’m sure somebody has made this observation before, probably Sailer, the true expert on California. Levis is happily “leaning into” the ESG craze of advertising solely for trannies. Unlike Budweiser, they’re making the right lean, and will be rewarded. Levis has been haute couture for a LONG time. Their loyal customers are haute couture. Levis…
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Why Branson is failing
WSJ asks why Branson’s spaceflight venture is failing. They miss the main points. 1. Because it was just another way to burn up QE for a tax dodge. Now that QE is gone, no reason for the burning devices. 2. Because there’s no mass market for it. Only Branson’s transhumanist buddies in the Epstein gang…
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Good question from Sailer
Sailer asks a damn good question: = = = = = START QUOTE: The massive deinstitutionalization of the 1960s–1980s is now widely considered a blunder, but why did it seem like a good idea at the time? We need to consider why progressive reformers in the English-speaking world turned as fervently against lunatic asylums in…
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Snobascope
Kirn retweeted this item from a film snob who saw only the lens in Carlson’s “I’ll be baaaaack” clip. Shoutout to my bro @justingum (we worked together on Hoaxed w/ @scooter_downey) He shot this clip using anamorphic lenses to give it that beautiful epic feel. I’ve seen several film snobs triggered that Tucker would dare…
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Zero problems approach growing?
A couple of interesting flips toward pragmatism. These decisions aren’t SOLVING problems, but at least the executives are trying to stop MAKING problems. Both decisions are politically tough, crossgrain to the desires of the base. 1. Biden had turned off a Trump order which slowed down asylum-seekers. The resulting flood was predictable. Now Biden is…
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Third shift workers day!
Today is Third Shift Workers Day! Rehashing… The Weather Bureau salutes Third Shift Workers Day, for the folks who work graveyard shift. Hadn’t heard of this Day before. From the linked items I couldn’t tell for sure which day is the Official Day. They range from May 7 to May 13. This is fitting, since…
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