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Parkinson corollary
Corollary of Parkinson, not quite stated in the book but easily inferred: When a leader or organization wants you to help accomplish a PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE goal, you can be sure the real purpose is hidden. Physically impossible goals are guaranteed to increase the budget and workforce forever. At every stage in the process, the leader…
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Always hoard your work.
I pulled another forgotten tool out of my pre-made Poser toolkit and saved a lot of tiresome labor. Now that I’m old and burned out by the “virus” torture, it’s nice to have the stored work of a younger and smarter ancestor on hand. AMORTIZE, AMORTIZE, AMORTIZE! ALWAYS HOARD YOUR WORK, EVEN IF YOU CAN’T…
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Maybe you shouldn’t
MindMatters has been focusing on the problems and failings of AI for a long time, sometimes missing the point and sometimes hitting it. I’ve been ‘reacting’ to their hits and misses for a long time, as a way of organizing and rationalizing my own thoughts. For some reason their host Discovery.org has a VERY SLOW…
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Not auspicious
DailyMail shows off the new postage stamps for King Charles. Each stamp has a beautiful painting of a flower, with a gray profile in the upper corner that doesn’t look much like the profile of Charles. Instead, it looks like the generic silhouette that appears in social media before you’ve uploaded your own avatar. Not…
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Diet logic
The 1874 slang dictionary I often cite has an objective chapter on Gypsy customs and language. Most British criminal slang came from Gypsies because Gypsies are the smartest criminals. This is a fact which hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. Like it or not, most Gypsies prosper by illegal means. The author treats other Gypsy…
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Convoluted hyperinverted “justice”
According to DailyMail, Trump is going to be arrested for a completely irrelevant non-crime, which is the only way actual criminals EVER get arrested. This crime is peculiarly backwards as well as irrelevant. Trump is a master blackmailer, learning the craft from Roy Cohn, the historical champion. (Second only to Lady Edgar, who had the…
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From the other angle
In previous item I was basically discussing adrenaline addiction. Deepstate keeps the adrenaline flowing at all times, causing heart damage and sudden death and weakened immunity. Never let the victims regain balance and normalcy. But adrenaline is also addictive. Soldiers of fortune, mountain climbers, parachutists, gamblers, risk-takers of all sorts, understand this addiction and use…
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Parkinsonstack
When a war or tornado or storm ends clearly with a VE Day or an All-Clear Siren, people can cleanly shift out of Emergency Mode and return to normal life. When the real action asymptotes down to an approximate end as observed and measured, but the official event doesn’t end, people are confused. Parkinson tells…
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Just brands
For some reason the ‘independents’ are happy with banning Tiktok because of “Chinese espionage” and “cybersecurity”. If we were really worried about Chinese spying, we wouldn’t have invited and subsidized thousands of Chinese spies in industry and academia and military research for the last 40 fucking years. If we were really worried about cybersecurity, we…
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Taibbi is learning
I’ve noted that Taibbi started with a highly naive attitude about the history of media and censorship, firmly believing that newspapers formerly “exposed the truth” and “afflicted the comfortable.” He also believed that censorship is aimed at WHAT, not WHO. He believed that censors were turning lies into truth and truth into lies. I haven’t…
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I miss Paul Harvey.
He could handle some current “news” items. = = = = = I’m sure someone would want you to know that today is ‘Doctor-Patient Trust Day.’ Paul Harvey. Good DAY!
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Improving on Nature
Reddit has some weird categories. When they involve physical arts and crafts, they’re often worth a peek. Anthropomorphic Fungi seems maximally weird, but it includes some well-done paintings and arrangements. This is purely wonderful.
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Rare clarity
An economist on Yahoo Finance just now provided a rare bit of clarity, breaking through the fog generated by both “sides”. Semi-quoting: In 2008 FDIC backstopped all transaction accounts, in other words shadow banking. This was deeply unpopular, so Congress took away FDIC’s authority to backstop shadows. What happened last week was not an exception…
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Those three ancient words again
Continuing from the ‘irrelevant’ part of previous item, and tying it back to the more relevant discussion of the three traditional segments of Intellectual Property. = = = = = START REHASH: Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head for no reason. I realized that I didn’t know its exact meaning so…
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