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Scent mirror
UD has some smart analysis of the ‘mirror test’ for self-awareness. Some researchers found that a fish was able to distinguish its own face from other similar fish faces in a picture. Good question: Researchers have also questioned whether the test is appropriate for species like dogs that rely more on scent, or like pigs…
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Gaia is pleased
Part of a Driver’s Dream cartoon from Motor Age 1913: Meanwhile here in Spokane, the screechily Gaian city “government” is tearing down a pedestrian bridge over I-90 as part of its long-term mission to make life miserable for pedestrians. This is pleasing in the sight of Gaia, because it means more dead peasants. = =…
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whorfles
Now we have more “Chinese” UFOs. After I obediently gave Deepstate the snap reaction it wanted, I turned up my input filters and baseline sensors. This is clearly a rather low-quality fake THREAT, and the repeat is designed to create a new fake threat CATEGORY. Deepstate treats an ordinary and frequent object as a UNIQUE…
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Bikeshedding!
Parkinson would love this tweet from Spokane’s insane city “government”. Straight out of his book! = = = = = 3 key elements of the update are: 🚲differentiating between the short-term & long-term storage of bicycles; 🚲removing the relationship between vehicle parking requirements & bicycle parking requirements; 🚲providing best practice guidance for bicycle rack design…
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Gumption reset
Lately I’ve been low on gumption despite good weather and no actual torture commands. I needed a sensory reset, and got it yesterday in an odd way. In yesterday’s store trip I saw several lunatics voluntarily wearing muzzles, which triggered PTSD. Do they know something? Is the torture about to resume? I checked local websites…
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YAETT
Yet another ‘earlier than thought’, another invention that went to sleep for 50 years before it was officially “invented”. We think pushbutton shifting was developed by Chrysler and Packard in 1956, then spread to Mercury and Edsel and Rambler for a few years. Nope. Pushbutton shifting was developed in 1913. Center of steering wheel, repeated…
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Might be doing some good
Kim Iversen is one of the few former journalists who is not obviously fake. At least she hasn’t converged to the establishment YET. Here she’s interviewing Jose Vega, a NYC activist who constantly attends meetings and rallies to shout POINTED QUESTIONS at fake progressives. I don’t know if he’s doing any good, but he makes…
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Demons always change the rules
Bitcoin and AI are Tech Disruptors introduced by Deepstate at different times for different purposes, following the basic pattern of psychopathic obliterators. Bitcoin was purely social engineering, a meaningless bit of fake computer code that does absolutely nothing and serves absolutely no purpose. The social engineering did serve two purposes. (1) It sucked billions of…
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Noblesse oblige?
Thinking about the instant response of Medium’s algorithm to my futile insults in comments, which was definitely a good thing. Kicked me out of a place I shouldn’t have bothered to enter. Facebook has never cancelled or banned me despite some vastly harsher comments about the demons in charge, especially during the first year of…
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Blind faith
Everyone has a weak point, an area of Blind Faith. We have two similar instances of Blind Faith among auto writers this morning. Wolf Richter is a hardass realist about nearly everything, but has Blind Faith in EVs. He wrote a piece about the Utopian Success of EVs and banned comments, citing backlash from “EV…
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BEST cartoon of the year
Jectoons has drawn (by hand) the BEST analysis of AI vs skill! Says it all.
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Extinct principle
An ad from American Motorist in 1912. Seems like an odd choice of subjects. Muslims were not common or newsworthy or familiar at that time. Maybe they were trying to say discreetly that Protestants shouldn’t be trying to convert Catholics by rough methods? Those conversions were common and controversial. After 2001, this ad would cause…
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Truly effective altruism
The brand name of EA is just a fake philosophical way of “justifying” theft and murder. Gangsters steal money from peasants and give it to their buddies, and gangsters KILL massive numbers of peasants to appease the Climate Gods. The FTX bankruptcy trustee is GENUINELY and EFFECTIVELY altruistic. Justice by recompense is real altruism. Government…
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