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Ugly Taxling
Elon is mostly continuing Deepstate control of Twitter, which is not surprising. He’s made a few changes to turn Twitter into a money-making business. The blue check thing is a classic example of how a real business works. Previously the Twitter management knew who was Correct and who was Incorrect, and assigned elite credentials accordingly.…
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And that brings us
Gary Smith is treading outside of economics territory and measuring Life, but he hasn’t quite crossed the boundary yet. He’s showing how log vs linear graphing can aid or obscure your understanding of a topic. It’s a hugely important point, and deeply familiar in acoustics and speech and neurology. His first attempt made a linear…
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Right about problem, wrong about solution
This discussion of college loans gets one big point right. Major universities are hedge funds with an apprentice program for future hedgies attached. That’s all. Demons training demons. The discussion misses the PERMANENCE of this situation. Colleges were FOUNDED for this sole purpose. Nothing has changed for 1000 fucking years. At one time the A&M…
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Three ancient words yet again
These folks are strongly pro-bitcoin, but even they can’t figure out why anyone would want to “own” a reference to a part interest in a Warhol painting. If we understood those three ancient words, we’d be harder to fool. = = = = = START REHASH: Thinking of NFT in terms of the three ancient…
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Big point from Kirn
Kirn makes a HUGE and NEW and SALIENT point, around 15 minutes into the weekly discussion with Taibbi. Paraphrasing: I don’t know how the people who profit from the internet expect it to keep going when it has become nothing but a giant elephant trap. Every time you write a word, you are placing yourself…
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“Dream” come true!
EDIT: OOPS, IT WAS A JOKE AGAIN. THE DATE WAS RELEVANT AFTER ALL. But the process is unfortunately real now, whether it’s triggered by a button in Daz or not. ============================= Daz, one of the big CG toolmakers, has finally achieved the “dream” of artists. The Make Art button. With the Make Art Daz Studio…
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Reprint on science as entertainment
From Dec 2020. = = = = = START REPRINT: Science is simply a form of entertainment, and we should treat it as entertainment. We should fund it the same way we fund sports or museums or orchestras or ‘serious’ theater, via season ticket holders. Big media is NOT entertainment and doesn’t fall into this…
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Stockman hits it.
Stockman hits it hard. Most of the “antis” have always defended Trump in a half-hearted way, claiming that he was fooled or bamboozled into committing the biggest crime in history. Nonsense. Trump was always a demon and a gangster, and he was specifically an OCD demon. So he jumped at the opportunity to kill and…
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Same tactics
More clarity on the “anti” AI petition, which is obviously an attempt to snatch control of the process. From the belly of the WEF beast: Elon is the prime mover behind this petition. Interpretation: Elon founded OpenAI and now he wants to take it back. The petition will drive down the share price so he…
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Gold rushes and calligraphy
Following on my musings about cattle drives. The 1850s gold rush populated and shaped California, and also created another temporary development before the railroads pushed through. Look at the Copperplate cursive on these letters sent back East by prospectors. Almost indecipherable to modern eyes but highly expressive. These men were not poor or uneducated. It…
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Peculiar typo
All the headlines about yesterday’s election of Trump misspell the word elect. They all say “Trump indicted by Grand Jury”. Some stories say that other agencies are annoyed at the NYC jury, because the other agencies want to be the first to elect Trump. Again these stories misspell elect as indict for some mysterious reason.…
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She should be using her talents
The BreakingPoints folks are chuckling at Chris Christie’s attempt to get into the Repooflican contest. Christie is trying to sell his gangster credentials as the one man who can outdo Trump in Pro Wrestling dirty talk. BP correctly observes that NOBODY can possibly beat Trump. He has always been the master of crude criminal nastiness,…
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Not mysterious
Via BigPulpit, here’s one Roman blogger who gets it. As a stock Young Person on the Internet who is plugged in to both Catholic twitter and baseball twitter, I’m astounded at how frequently I see one tweet from, say, a fellow Padres fan ragging on a Dodgers fan, scroll down a few tweets, and see…
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Parallel hierarchies
Continuing the theme of corporate genes vs epigenes. GM developed its hierarchy late in life. At first Billy Durant was just buying up companies because he enjoyed buying up stuff. After DuPont took over, Sloane lined up the random companies into a hierarchy of price. Acquisition was the gene, organized hierarchy was an epigene. Ford…
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Wide open field
Great example of the more or less positive side of AI. One Redditor asked ChatGPT to write a poem about bitcoin. The result is excellent poetry. Full of meaning, solid rhyme and rhythm, reaching a persuasive climax. Reminds me of Longfellow. Humans abandoned poetry 100 years ago. Absolutely nobody is writing poetry now, so the…
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