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Sieve
The purpose of patents and copyrights is to block innovation, not to enable. The purpose of the current school system is to block most people from developing their skills, letting only the selected few percolate through the holes. Without school, most skills would be fully mature and experienced at 21. The old apprentice system accomplished…
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Cooroleth
While schadenfreuding on Bud Light’s plight, I’ve noticed a nice shibboleth. Coors was a regional brand before 1990, confined to the states around Colorado. It was unknown in Ohio and Pennsylvania when I lived there. In its original zone, Coors rhymed with doors and floors. Outside the zone, even in Oklahoma, Coors rhymed with tours.…
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Today is Wordsmith Day!
Today “celebrates the weavers of words.” In honor of Wordsmith Day, the striking writers in Hollywood have written some wordy picket signs. I’ve been keeping up with those writers in an empathetic way, comparing their situations with my work in a different part of the writing world. One complaint is similar: In both cases writers…
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Honestly senile
There’s one genuine advantage of an honestly senile president. Repooflicans are mocking Biden for working short hours. Allegedly he works only 10 to 4, and isn’t available for all the usual publicity crap. 1. Well, you don’t like what he does when he’s working. You should be happy he doesn’t work much. (Incidentally, Dems made…
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Bud solves its problem
Trouble with real humans in the physical world? Move to the metaverse where you can simply delete all uncool customers! This creature is a Grandmaster of NFT/Web3/Metaverse bafflegab. “We won’t know what the consumer wants until we get more data on the blockchain.” Hmm. Seems to me that your REAL ledgers, your REAL spreadsheets of…
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All in one word
Daily Mail is showing supersupersuperfashionable weird creatures engaged in some sort of supersupersuperfashionable party. Jennifer Lopez, Emily Ratajkowski and Kendall Jenner donned their best looks yet as they lead the stars continuing their wild night at the Met Gala by heading to the after party at Zero Bond in New York City on Monday. Zero…
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So I sez
Beautiful example of Malicious Compliance. Ryan Webb, an ordinary white man, redefined his identity as an Indian Womxn, and dared the activists to VIOLATE THEIR OWN FUCKING RULES by questioning his newfound identity. Malicious Compliance has always been an effective weapon against tyrants. It hasn’t been used recently. Drafted soldiers were formerly masters of Malicious…
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Random thoughts
Couple of random thoughts. 1. Thinking about the old Hollywood attitude that entertainment is a duty. Is entertainer one of the basic types? Humans unquestionably have a predesigned set of roles and duties just as bees do. Each basic type has an obvious old job, with modern variations. I hadn’t tried to include Entertainer in…
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Lite Ledger
Via DailyMail: On Sunday, Beer Business Daily reported that the beer’s off-premise sales volume – meaning the amount of beer sold outside of restaurants and bars – had fallen by 26.1 percent from a year earlier. Coors Light’s volume was up 13.3 percent for the same time period, and Miller Lite rose 13.6 percent. Hmm.…
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Sane response
I’ve been steadily impressed by the plain old sanity that shows up in the Hollywood types writing at the Ankler. Maybe they’re not the norm, but many of them are well-known names. Here’s another example, from their coverage of the upcoming writers strike: There were some writers, however, who expressed something close to a Zen-like…
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CSS reboot anniversary!
= = = = = START REPRINT from exactly one year ago: According to the daily log at Enid Buzz: Happy May Day! It’s also Couple Appreciation Day, CSS Reboot Day, Executive Coaching Day, Frequent Flyer Day, Global Love Day, Bereaved Mother’s Day, Permaculture Day, Workers’ Day, Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 Day, Law Day,…
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Classical symmetry
The Enid Postcards site runs a few hundred old pix in slow rotation, eliciting more or less the same comments every time. Repetition tends to bring out patterns. When I lived there I didn’t appreciate the SKILL of the bricklayers who turned out intricate and sturdy art on every wall, whether visible or not. Enid’s…
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QT, KYC, KYW
I’ve been having schadenfreudisch fun watching various accounts of Budweiser’s idiocy. Most people are focusing on the specific politics, but the problem is simpler. QE made it possible to ignore the BASIC RULES OF BUSINESS. Know your customers. Keep your customers. Know your workers. Keep your workers. In the era of profit, successful businesses followed…
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Deeply familiar
Vintage.es has some pics taken by an early railroad photographer in Kansas and New Mexico. The Kansas scenes are deeply familiar. Here is the railroad running along the banks of the Kaw. This is where Polistra lives. (See the icon above).
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Poor assumption
This writer has some interesting details of digital journalism, but he starts from the assumption that “news” and “investigative journalism” are intrinsically valuable products that NEED to be made, whether profitable or not. Bad assumption. Nobody actually needs “news” as it’s commonly formed. We could use prior warning of incoming weather and demonic government projects…
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