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Shadowbanometry
Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices. I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than…
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Sucking, not blowing
MindMatters notes an increasing discontent with AI among musicians. “We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can,” he continued. “We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology.” Bangalter said that the timing of Daft Punk’s 2021…
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Yes sir, she’s my puzzle
One neighbor has been playing a puzzling form of music for many months. Not annoyingly loud, just weirdly monotonous. It sounds like tuned bongos or tuned snares. At first I thought it was a school band practicing their marches, but there’s no school band nearby. I never hear any bass guitar or other actual instruments,…
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Today I learned….
A pro-bitcoin redditor is using an interesting and worthwhile fact to make an invalid argument. The Nevada gaming commission stipulates that a casino must hold in reserves enough cash to cover every chip in play on its floor. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve stipulates that banks must hold in reserves between 0% to 3% worth of…
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More on the 2015 purge
Closely connected to yesterday’s discussion of 2015. Sailer is citing a survey of news media across MANY countries. Graphs show the rise of ‘wokish’ language. The author was only looking for versions of the usual phobia and anti and ism words. He was wisely ignoring pronouns. Most languages have grammatical gender, so he might be…
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Lot of silliness
Reading some comments on AI. Some were hopelessly behind the times. “What if AI passes the Turing test?” “What will happen when we give AI the nuclear codes?” Already passed the Turing Test, already has the nuclear codes. The famous story of Blessed Hero Stanislav Petrov proves it. In the early ’80s both sides were…
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Postmodern dream
This morning’s dream was set in a future without social media. Achievements were no longer recognized by blue checks or Likes. Achievements were recognized by fastening a metal plate to a giant kiosk or carousel, something like the carousel formerly used for order tickets in restaurants. I knew a black lady who was doing an…
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Bet on Saudi vector
Time to make a sort of bet or speculation. I don’t have high confidence in this one. Obvious facts: 1. 9/11 was an attack by Saudi forces, motivated and organized by CIA and FBI. Osama was basically a mercenary. 2. We “responded” to 9/11 by attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, who had only the slightest semi-imaginary…
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Credit footnote
I’ve been quoting this wonderful piece of wisdom often, but forgot the original source. I found the original just now when I was looking back through Gaian stuff in connection with RFK. I first quoted it in 2011. The source was Jim Hopkins in New Zealand, writing on the GWPF anti-Gaian website, which no longer…
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Right strategy
RFK jr is running for president inside the D party. He’s obviously a pied piper. Remember: Before he started this crap, he was the head lawyer for the Gaian movement. He didn’t switch sides. He piedpipered the antivaxers into the Gaian movement, and now he’s hoping to use their strong support to elect Trump. He…
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Reprint from 2015
While looking for links on permanent status, noticed this piece in 2015. At that time the current Total War was in its prep stages. I was trying to trace out the vague forebodings of a coming purge, without knowing which way it would go. This piece focused mainly on religion and culture. I was also…
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Old rules for old rich
An influencer is teaching the rules followed by the Old Rich. The rules are apparently ShockingShocking, or at least DailyMail wants us to think so. The rules are thoroughly familiar and unchanged. I remember reading about them in the ’50s. Later I knew several old rich types in Ohio, who fit the mold precisely. Status…
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Using the trustifying rule 2
A good example of trustifying. Naomi Wolf is reading through the 1560 Geneva Bible. She knows linguistics and Hebrew and Biblical analysis, and she says this edition describes a much kinder and less psychopathic God than the King James or later versions. She seems convinced of this distinction. So far I’m not hearing the distinction.…
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Not snark
Yahoo Financial was interviewing an expert on gold and silver. Announcer asked “Gold is the boomer metal. What’s the millenial metal? Is it lithium, or the other rare metals that go into EVs?” My instant snarky answer was BITCOIN! The expert’s NON-SNARKY answer was BITCOIN! We’re fucked. = = = = = More seriously, The…
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If humans had been blind 2
Following on theme of previous item…. If humans had been blind, we would have no concept of 2 dimensions. The tactile world is 3d. The audio world has 4 dimensions: time, frequency, intensity, and location. The olfactory world probably can’t be dimensionalized at all. Only the retina traps the world in flat 2d. Recording and…
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