-
Yankoleth
EnidBuzz asked about former or current CB handles. Most of the commenters are women, and most had handles that would be ferociously illegal in today’s inquisitorial climate. Every non-Yankee knows that CBers were poets. Every Okie knows the meaning of Two Dogs.
-
Badoleth
A podcast by lawyers Barro and White joins the universal Lawyers Chorus trying to shut Sammy’s stupid mouth. They bring up a crucially important point about the Professional Criminal genotype. Semiquote: I must admit it’s my fault, because I’m always out there saying don’t go on Twitter and talk about crimes, don’t go on the…
-
Viaticals of bitcoin
Everything is securitized now. This dude is proudly offering to securitize bankruptcy claims resulting from FTX, Three Arrows, Celsius, etc. Reminds me of viaticals: With a viatical settlement, you purchase the policy (or part of it) at a price that is less than the death benefit of the policy. When the seller dies, you collect…
-
Good discussion but incomplete
Pretty good discussion of Shannon information. Greenwald hits the main point that Deepstate will always tell you what it wants you to hear. Elon is Deepstate. The discussers conclude validly that a forcible leak is always better than a permitted leak. But Snowden and Manning still didn’t give out any Shannon. Regardless of their intentions,…
-
Tech gene question
Returning to the subject of tech genes. Here’s an odd question that doesn’t seem to have an easy explanation. Horse-powered vehicles had wheels with iron rims, and continued to have iron rims after automobiles were common.** Horseless carriages had pneumatic rubber tires from the start, even when they were made by the same company. Studebaker…
-
More sensible lawsuit
A previous lawsuit relating to AI seems absurd and clearly serves a hidden purpose, which hasn’t been revealed yet. Thaler used AI as a tool to write a trivial patent, which was granted. Now he wants courts to treat the AI as the ‘inventor’ while Thaler is the ‘assignee’. Thaler can’t gain any money from…
-
Not just econ
The Quote Investigator on Medium traces a quote by economist Paul Samuelson: I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws if I can write its economics textbooks. The saying started around 1750 with songs, then later became poems, then Samuelson switched it to econ texts, adding: The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on…
-
Sanity returns to influencers
During QE, all influencers were “investing” in stupid IPOs and fantastically brainless bitcoin. Now that Powell has stopped the counterfeit, some rich athletes are returning to real capitalism. A brokerage is buying farmland for the influencers and renting it out to farmers. Sharia would approve, and real economics also approves. Unlike Gates and other Gaian…
-
Coalism works both ends
Delicious. In advanced countries like Krautland, coalism (sometimes called “environmentalism”) has vastly increased the demand for coal by wiping out all other reliable sources. No nuclear, no diesel, no hydro, no natural gas. Only coal. The highly enlightened Kraut government is fulfilling coalist requirements by expanding a lignite mine. Less enlightened countries abandoned lignite a…
-
Reprint on AI and panpsychism
Partly for the continuing focus on AI as the tool of the demons, mostly for the animistic footnote at the end, which ties into the theme of genefields and earthfields. Reprint from Oct 21. = = = = = START REPRINT: The April 76 issue of Computers and Automation includes a POWERFUL article by Joseph…
-
Can it happen?
Probably a stupid thought, but I feel like writing it down for my own thinking process. In previous item: = = = = = An outside thermometer tells us how cold it is BEFORE we go outside, so we can prepare. Online weather radar is an even better reporter. It tells us where the precipitation…
-
Was Nixon fooled?
Nixon surrendered our economy to China after losing Vietnam to China. It was an unconditional surrender like Versailles in 1919. Before Nixon, our approach to China was uniformly stupid and innocent. Starting around 1890, we viewed China as a land of customers. All of our policies were aimed at befriending their government so they would…
-
Speaking of reporting…
In this clip Batya does some actual reporting, brings us some real Shannon information. Batya has blown her overall credibility by bowing down to Fauci, but this time she performed the proper function of a remote sensor as I was discussing in previous item. Both “sides” had been treating the Congress speaker crap as just…
-
What is a reporter for?
Matt Taibbi is following all the bad rules of “journalism”, which are the same as the rules of Deepstate. Protect sources above all. Never reveal anything that your source doesn’t want to reveal. Well then, what the fuck is your PURPOSE? You’re not reporting, you’re just an unpaid (or maybe paid) part of Deepstate. You’re…
-
Where are they going?
I’m still wondering where Substack is going. Some of their hidden purpose is starting to show up with a focus on becoming the new mass media, led by Bari Weiss. This will inevitably lead right back to censorship. The same thing already happened with Bari Weiss’s other push, the “free university”. They’re still waiting for…
Polistra's Mill
Be your own beacon.
Polistra's Mill 