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Mercy for orphans
Sammy’s got a Substack now, opened just a few hours ago. In his first post he puts out some carefully lawyered-up caveats, and then bashes the bankruptcy CEO for not undoing Sammy’s crimes fast enough. Later: Various discussers are trying to figure out Sammy’s motives. At least one lawyer has already given up on him,…
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Curling
I’m back to animations of embryonic development, after a brief break for Steinheil’s ground. Today I’m setting up a cochlea model and trying to match the shape changes with the actual timepoints. We’ve got rain today, fortunately warm rain instead of snow or ice. Nice relief after a month of solid ice and cabin fever.…
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Milk comes from cartons
MindMatters is belatedly grasping the tenure problem. People who work inside academia have known and recognized this for many decades. My father saw it when he started work as a prof in 1957, and warned me about it. Everyone knows it, but outsiders, even outsiders who attend college for four years, don’t hear about it.…
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Trying again
Trying to talk myself down from Muzzle PTSD yet again. Even the fucking NY Times now acknowledges that self-muzzlers are weird and crazy. The mood of the elites has unquestionably shifted. They’re done. When the NY Times is done, the whole monstrosity is done. The agencies will keep pushing, but so far their pushes are…
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I don’t get it.
A failure of FAA’s air control system caused aircraft to be grounded for a few minutes or whatever. This is THE ONLY STORY right now, and Congress promises to “investigate” the glitch. The airlines (and buses and trains and taxis) STRANGLED AND GAGGED THEIR PASSENGERS for two fucking years, and media didn’t notice it. I…
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Odd correlation
The US Commerce department wrote this book in 1929. It’s an impartial description of radio systems and radio advertising in every country of the world, for the guidance of American advertisers who want to reach foreign markets. There’s a STRONG and backward-seeming correlation between advertising and government style in Europe. The countries that we called…
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AI is like…
AI is a lot like dreams, or more precisely the semi-dream crap that sometimes pops up just before sleep, and forces you to wake up from cognitive dissonance. As I was drifting toward a noon nap just now, this snippet of text in printed form popped up: … is equally valid because Hollen is a…
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Another victory for coal
This demonic move wasn’t well publicized. I hadn’t read about it until today. The demon states are already banning natural gas appliances in new construction, and the feds are getting ready to do the same. They’re using an insane tiny pseudo-“correlation” with asthma, based on one small “study”, to “justify” the ban. THESE ARE THE…
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Hardwired doesn’t need marks
This is intriguing but dubious. Researchers looking closely at some cave paintings of elk and antelope have been puzzled by periodic markings around the animals. These researchers see a correlation between the 13 months of the lunar calendar and the mating cycles of the animals. First: When people are intensely interested in a set of…
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Sharp observation
One of the anticoin Redditors sees the early signs of a switchover. So apparently personal finance YouTubers/Influencers are now doing AI-related schemes/scams where supposedly this magical AI software can predict which stocks will be best. If NFTs and high yield accounts are what sparked the 2020/2021 bubble, I’m guessing that something related to AI could…
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Where’s the effect?
Stoller is extolling a new decision by the Federal Trade Commission to ban non-compete agreements. FTC claims this will raise wages by $2000 for an average worker. This doesn’t make sense. Non-compete agreements have been around for a long time. They were always used for executives and salesmen, and apparently they’re now used in other…
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Who invented the earth?
Multiple choice quiz. Who invented the earth? A: God, 4004 BC. B: Random quantum fluctuations evolving atoms and molecules and planets, at a quantum indeterminate date and time. C: Carl August Steinheil, 1837. Correct answer is C. = = = = = Steinheil was a physics prof who got interested in the new sport of…
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Rats leave sunk ship
Protos continues to track a semi-local connection to the Sammy story: Moonstone Bank chief legal officer Joseph Vincent, a former top banking regulator, has left the financial firm, after being with the bank for just eight months. Vincent joined Moonstone, one of the smallest banks in the country, which gained national attention late last year…
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Unbash when deserved
I’ve bashed TheFederalist a couple times lately, so I should unbash when unbash is due. In this podcast on the idiotic soap opera of Congress, they get down to HARDASS realism. They recognize that the “political” parts of the federal government, including “elections”, have been completely nonexistent and nonfunctional for several decades, and they also…
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What if PO had bought it?
From previous item, Morse ran the first real commercial trial of his system for the Post Office, but they decided it wouldn’t be profitable enough for full implementation. If the PO had bought Morse, many things would be different. After our PO turned him down, Euro POs made better offers, and most of them quickly…
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