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Ancient words continued
Following on previous item about the ancient details of possession… Yesterday I watched a stupid Youtube sales pitch for NFTs. Even now, after the whole fake entity has publicly collapsed, the scammers are still working hard. Old radio and TV shows about rackets dramatized this aspect. As the cops were hauling the swindler off, he…
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Ancient words
Kirn points out yet another reason why you shouldn’t copyright your work if you want to leave a legacy. I hadn’t thought about this part of the problem. He shows parallel passages from Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Witches’, with the latest edition bowdlerized by Woke idiocy. Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head…
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More Mattingly meandering
I’m going to quibble with Mattingly again. He’s so close to right in many areas that his errors make me itchy. (I don’t bother to quibble with demons who are intentionally wrong about everything.) In this piece about journalism he gets the post-1990 action powerfully right. Cable soap opera and web are pulling toward the…
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Expertly gaming the algo
If you think you’re gaming the system, beware. There’s always somebody who games better than you! Via Reddit, dozens of TikTok livestreamers are sitting on the sidewalk in one highway underpass. Each is using the same type of circle light, and each is sitting on a low platform. Each is arranged so her camera can’t…
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QT is starting to make a difference!
Via DailyMail, the top tech monster companies are firing “diversity” loonies and cutting out “DEI” departments. This is an automatic result of the shutoff of free counterfeit. When business demons are subsidized by the stock demons, they will happily do demonic shit. When business demons are constrained by PROFIT, they are forced against their satanic…
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Opposite kind of “music”
Archive has a few episodes of Herb Shriner Time, which is the opposite of other old variety programs. Most have splendid music and crappy comedy. Shriner is a splendid comedian with atrocious “music”. The “music” was outputted by an entity called the Raymond Scott Quintet. Example: Powerhouse. This piece is mechanistic and ugly, in the…
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Go all the way
Wesley Smith is complaining about the movement toward “rights” for inanimate things like rivers. He wants to reserve “rights” only for humans. In the first place, “rights” are a recent and destructive invention. God never said anything about “rights”. In all the old scriptures, God talks about duties, not “rights”. In the second place, you’ll…
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Interesting question
From Reddit: For reference I’m 34. From what I can tell, when my parents were younger, it was just accepted that you could get a burger and milkshake at your local drug store. That’s not intuitive if no one told you it was a thing. But by the time I was a kid, the practice…
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Unrealistic
TheFederalist makes a somewhat valid point: In a world where the left has achieved near-total dominance of the cultural space, finding an openly conservative artist can feel like tracking down an endangered species. Unfortunately, like poachers in the jungle, the left is on the hunt. While leftist artists can openly spew their bile for the…
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Strong point
Pithy point from Kirn: One “superstition” I was invited to laugh at as a youngster was the aversion of certain traditional and native peoples to having their pictures taken and to photographic imagery in general. But I don’t laugh at this now. Sometimes I even ask myself how in the world they knew. I’m not…
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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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