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Just for fun
Extracted from a 1944 episode of Fountain of Fun, performed by the Pratchett Sisters. Fast-moving complicated rhythm and intense harmony. Tuesday at Ten. As far as I can tell there isn’t a vocal version of the song online. Youtube has a couple of good instrumentals. Also by the same sisters, Surrey.
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Legacies and genes
Previous item triggered a random metaphor. Art Bell married a Filipina, and other Pinoys in the immigrant community were pissed at the wife for marrying outside the clan. This closely resembles copyrights and patents. The purpose of IP is to block people outside the clan from using your knowledge. When other companies can’t use the…
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Art Bell and the FBI
John Greenewald at BlackVault has some new FOIAs from FBI’s investigations of Art Bell, the longtime host of late-night radio programs about UFOs. There’s not much text left after redactions, but the pattern and dates are pretty clear given previous knowledge. I was listening to Art in those years, and he often talked about threats…
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AI is like …. 2
Last month I observed that AI sometimes resembles the semi-dreams that pop up just before full sleep. Total nonsense in a plausible atmosphere. Fresh example from noon nap today. I was sitting in an aluminum folding chair on a beach. I was busy with mass-production piecework, wrapping little plastic objects in woolen socks so they…
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Goal achieved
Well, it looks like Sammy’s social engineering won the whole prize. Regulators and legislators and JPMorgan and Goldman are all going full speed into “blockchain”. Bribery and blackmail always work nicely. The fake “anticoiners” like David Gerard and Molly White also won. I hope they appreciate their billion-dollar rewards. Classic case of the Machiavellian two-sided…
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Never give the sucker a choice.
Yahoo just featured the “presidential” campaign of Nikki Haley, playing her first TV ad. Theme: MORE WAR! Why? Leaving aside the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, there’s an actual difference between Trump and other recent presidents on the subject of imperial aggression. Starting in 1990, every president except Trump started a new pointless unwinnable permanent war…
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Still chewing on this….
I’ve been trying to untangle the two factions of opposition to the “virus” tyranny. I was never bothered much by vax. It’s the ONLY part of this monstrosity that belongs in real medicine and real public health, and the ONLY part that may actually work against a real virus if there is one. Taking one…
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Familiar old tune
The tune was already familiar in 1912! Gasoline is going up to 12 cents a gallon! Inflation! Horrors! I’m really marveling at the clever graphics. Now we’d just mix a video to get this effect. In 1912 films were silent, and mixing technology hadn’t invaded phonograph records yet. (All mechanical, no electronics.) This artist and…
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More techtonic motion
When ArsTechnica argues against Deepstate, the techtonic plates have definitely shifted. Normally ArsTechnica and Wired and TechCrunch are eager to defend ABSOLUTELY EVERY CRIME committed by CIA/NSA/Pentagon. Now Ars is showing healthy skepticism about the recent pro-UFO tack by Deepstate. I was generally impressed by the 1950’s disks and acorns. Those were NOT obvious artifacts,…
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More air world
I’m tickled and astonished by the huge variety of air-driven devices around 1912. This one wasn’t replaced by electricity until 2010! = = = = = START QUOTE: The Chadwick Automatic Road Guide performs the functions of directing the motorist and furnishing information as to approaching road conditions automatically. This instrument consists of a dial…
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Maybe he’s just dumb too.
Is Taibbi also dumb like Craig Wright? I doubt it. Taibbi is trying to expose internal propaganda, which he “believes” to be relatively new. = = = = = START QUOTE: Worse, messages from these institutions are parroted more or less automatically by our corporate press, which has decided that instead of a network of…
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Usually puzzled
When I’m puzzled by motives, I generally assume there’s a hidden purpose, and assume that stupid-looking moves are distractions. With the moves of Craig Wright, I have to reach a simpler conclusion. He’s just dumb. He’s a suer. He enjoys suing. We already know from many angles and many stories that Wright doesn’t understand software…
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Multilayer misdirection
Kirn and Taibbi have fun with a bizarre “sciency” article written by Brookings Inst. The article uses superfancy fake “vector” methods to analyze podcasts by Unpersons and finds “scientifically” that Unpersons are Unpersons. Which they already knew. I’m a bit more mathy than K and T, so I looked at the actual article to check…
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Air world
In tracing the air starter and related devices, I found several cars that made broader use of the compressor, to inflate tires or push the fuel up into the engine. A dozen cars had air systems in 1912, and another dozen had acetylene starters. Most cars already had an acetylene tank for the lights, so…
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