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Vector thinking
Following the bees… Nikki Haley is using an old political platitude while claiming to be non-platitudinous. Bring us together! Uniter, not divider! She seems to mean it, but she’s not dancing about it, not giving us the vector to the honey or the terrain we can expect along the way to the honey. We can…
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Two graphy Californians
I’ve been reading Steve Sailer and Wolf Richter for many years. Both are longtime Californians, both are keen observers who know how to look beyond the partisan crap, and both use a lot of data and graphs. Recently Sailer has been losing his sharpness and Wolf has been gaining. Today’s articles are a good example.…
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Secret vectors
This got me thinking about the bee’s waggle dance and vector vs cartesian orientation. Our eyes can do cartesian, but most of our senses, including basic orientation via the eyes, are vector. Looking through PNAS, found a new bit of bee research that goes way beyond this question. The researchers placed an artificial feeder in…
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Not new? New.
Randomly downloaded a 1954 British trade journal. On the first page is an account of some early globalist “social” “science” research, which sounds familiar…. = = = = = START QUOTE: Human Relations in Industry is the title of an interesting report that has been issued jointly by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research…
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Yeah, okay
One commentator notes that arresting the main opposition candidate is what Latin American banana republics do. Yeah, okay, I see the point. But it’s only valid when the candidate doesn’t deserve to be arrested. The problem with the charges against Trump is that he SHOULD be executed for committing the worst crime in history. And…
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More Jones
Continuing from previous item. There’s a more important factor. It’s not just the asking, it’s the location of the ask. The DeSantis campaign hasn’t appeared in my email, AND the DeSantis campaign hasn’t been using Substack. Haley used both. The Haley campaign seems to understand that their buyers are disgusted with mass media. The DeSantis…
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Learning yet?
Elon’s admirers are finally catching on. He’s a demon. He’s Deepstate. Elon handed carefully filtered “revelations” to naive dummy Taibbi, and Taibbi plastered them all over Substack. Now Elon has officially tinfoiled Substack and refuses to let people link there from Twitter. Will the naive dummy start learning about real life? I doubt it. His…
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She asked
I swore I’d never donate to another politician. Just now I donated to Nikki Haley’s campaign. Why? She is a neocon, but she’s firmly on the right side on NAZI TORTURE, and has a good governing record on industry vs finance. DeSantis has a MUCH stronger record on the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, but he…
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Be your own magnet
Lately I’ve been trying to expand the analog side of my life, after retracting into a digital shell during the hottest part of the NAZI TORTURE. I was functioning in OBEYING ALL ORDERS VERBATIM SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Now I’m trying to recapture the analog/digital proportion that I had before the…
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Shadowbanometry
Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices. I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than…
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Sucking, not blowing
MindMatters notes an increasing discontent with AI among musicians. “We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” he continued. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology.” Bangalter said that the timing of Daft Punk’s 2021…
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Yes sir, she’s my puzzle
One neighbor has been playing a puzzling form of music for many months. Not annoyingly loud, just weirdly monotonous. It sounds like tuned bongos or tuned snares. At first I thought it was a school band practicing their marches, but there’s no school band nearby. I never hear any bass guitar or other actual instruments,…
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Today I learned….
A pro-bitcoin redditor is using an interesting and worthwhile fact to make an invalid argument. The Nevada gaming commission stipulates that a casino must hold in reserves enough cash to cover every chip in play on its floor. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve stipulates that banks must hold in reserves between 0% to 3% worth of…
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More on the 2015 purge
Closely connected to yesterday’s discussion of 2015. Sailer is citing a survey of news media across MANY countries. Graphs show the rise of ‘wokish’ language. The author was only looking for versions of the usual phobia and anti and ism words. He was wisely ignoring pronouns. Most languages have grammatical gender, so he might be…
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Lot of silliness
Reading some comments on AI. Some were hopelessly behind the times. “What if AI passes the Turing test?” “What will happen when we give AI the nuclear codes?” Already passed the Turing Test, already has the nuclear codes. The famous story of Blessed Hero Stanislav Petrov proves it. In the early ’80s both sides were…
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