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Repayoleth
Via Coindesk, an interesting consequence of obscure bankruptcy laws. Sammy’s NGO posing as a “bitcoin bank” owned about 1/3 of current congresscritters. There’s an interesting difference in how the slaves treated their wages after Sammy’s NGO went into bankruptcy. Under bankruptcy law, all outstanding payments from a bankrupt company can be clawed back to repay…
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Jesus H Christ /// Edit: No, fuck it.
China sends a perfectly visible balloon over US, and another one over Canada. Pentagon claims to have known about it all along, but decides not to shoot it down because environmentalism or something. Remind me again why we have a “defense” “department” and a TSA and NORAD and all this other shit? Oh, now I…
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Good point, best point
Pretty good point from Kirn: AI Chatbots simply formalize & make explicit the profoundly inert nature of collective thinking that made real artists & writers attractive in the first place. They are more important than ever now, in fact, as second-rate pseudo-creativity has consolidated itself as never before. Vastly stronger point from one of his…
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Best hard answer
Haven’t done one of these in a while. Question at EnidBuzz: What tastes better a little burnt? Most of the answers were marshmallows and bacon. The last one hits the mark.
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What makes Sammy run candidates?
My considered conclusion is that Sammy’s outfit (FTX + Alameda + 100 shell companies) is a Democrat NGO. Sammy is following in his mother’s demonic footstomps. The whole outfit is decked out to look like a finance firm, but all of its PURPOSEFUL ACTIVITIES are designed to influence politicians and policies. Dem NGOs have a…
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Great Smith footnote
Bought a coffee-table book on Great Cars of the Great Plains by Curt McConnell. It features five notable and fairly successful early autos, including the Great Smith of Topeka. One of them, Moon in St Louis, became a mid-sized company and lasted till 1929. Most auto histories mention the Moon, if only because its factory…
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Shannon at last!
Been halfway watching the Elon/Twitter crap, waiting for Shannon info, and vowing to wake up if any real facts appear. Well, I’ll have to pay my implicit bet. We finally have a fact that genuinely couldn’t have been predicted from existing knowledge. In Taibbi’s coverage of the ‘Hamilton 68’ anti-Russian fakery, it’s clear that Twitter…
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Reprint on superhet
Linked in previous, worth bringing out on its own. This 2015 piece fits nicely with the newly found Carver quote: Start where you are. Work with what you have. Make something of it. Never be satisfied. The latter part of the piece also applies to this year’s AI cheating trend. Now that cheating is undetectable,…
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Multi-factor Sucker Filter
Double-locked doors are an old technique. Multi-factor identification is an electronic version, doubling the certainty that the entrant is authorized. Clever scammers have developed a multi-factor Sucker Filter. A UK court has branded a dark web site advertising bitcoin-for-hire hitmen an “absolute sham” and “palpable nonsense” after a woman, who allegedly tried to have a…
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More rambling on newspapers
Recently I tried to separate out the parts of a newspaper that I really enjoyed. I decided that the fillers and the human interest pieces were the sections I always read to completion. The other stuff like national “news” was incidental. Ideally and neurally, news means actionable information, telling you how to prepare for the…
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What makes Sammy run?
Now Sammy is openly tampering with witnesses. He contacted one of the main accusers suggesting “reconnection”. Sammy is not dumb. He’s drugged up and spoiled and entitled and an incurable cheater, but I can’t see why a perpetual cheater would MAXIMIZE his own sentence. Was he planning to reveal these contacts during the trial? Witness…
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Same price 2
Last week I compared an elegant mansion in Enid and a drab two-bedroom module in Spokane, both priced at $350k. In terms of proper innate value the mansion should be 20 times the price of the module. Back in 1970 the mansion would be $200k and the module would be $10k. Here’s a higher level…
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Same line, different sides
Pithy from Kirn: If you want to distinguish your behavior from that of an AI, make it super robotic and below-average all the time. The AI right now is all hung up on seeming authentic and smart. Reminds me immediately of a much older situation where the human vs machine line was drawn along the…
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Carver quote
On Jan 5 I featured a nice bit of science and called it a birthday gift for Carver. Previously I had been celebrating his day on Jan 29, but apparently historians think it’s Jan 5 now. Well, this is Jan 29, so here’s an unfamiliar quotation from the man himself. The Quote Investigator found this…
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