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Birthday gift for Carver!
Today is Carver’s birthday.** Neurologists have given him a nice gift today: a newly found structure that redesigns our understanding of the circulatory system. = = = = = START QUOTE: The tissue is a thin membrane encasing the brain that keeps newly made cerebrospinal fluid – which circulates inside the brain – separate from…
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Reprint: Trying a question
Looking at Statcounter for the old blog, noticed several of my semi-regular readers are looking at this item about plant intelligence. I can’t tell if they’re mocking it or discussing it, but it’s definitely one of the better things I’ve written. I was highlighting and extending what Francis Darwin and Dorothea Pertz were saying in…
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Reprint on pay vs value
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: Yet another proposal to counteract big money in politics: At their heart, political campaigns are no different than any other organization: they need to raise revenues and then spend it to meet their objectives. Organizations are responsive to who…
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Never hear the question
Random observation connected to my long-lasting theme on government as a business. Real businesses, at least when seeking profit, try to keep existing customers and bring back missing customers. Now that QT is starting to restore the profit loop, we should see more of this attitude. Even before QT, online businesses routinely detect that I’ve…
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What’s worse than DDT?
Reading a Reddit thread about sounds we used to hear. Modems, rotary dials, antenna rotors, the 15750 horizontal flyback in TV (interestingly, the thread has 15,700 comments right now!), dial tones and busy signals. I’m mostly analog, never switched from landline to cellphone, so some of these are still common for me. One steady theme…
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“Earlier than thought”
Morse received a government grant to test his telegraph in 1845. Here’s an account of the first official message, from a hagiography of Exalted Saint Morse, dismissing all earlier and later inventors. = = = = = On April 1, 1845, the line which had been worked as a curiosity was opened for public business.…
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More on Stalin and language
Continuing from here with Stalin’s remarkable essay on language. The PDF includes several letters written to various academicians after the ‘Ask Me Anything’ session at Pravda. In one of those letters he deals with the silly gesture-first idea, which was apparently popular among Soviet academicians at that time. = = = = = START STALIN:…
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They don’t make em…
A NYC writer observes Sammy’s arraignment: An uncomfortable-looking SBF pleaded not guilty to all charges. He was seen chewing the corners of his mouth throughout the 30-minute hearing and smearing on lip balm, which he squeezed out of a little black tube. Last night I was listening to a 1950 Mutual newscast including a parallel…
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Another bitcoin metaphor
I’ve already tried a mathematical analogy for bitcoin, as a robotic abacus. Then I tried an office equipment analogy, as a super-expensive rare precious file folder. Since I was admiring elegant old cars a few days ago, how about an automotive analogy? Well, blockchain is just a simple ordinary array, nothing fancy, EXCEPT that it…
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Even Trudeau?
Trudeau does one good thing in his miserable demonic life. A law banning ALL foreigners from buying property in Canada went into effect on Jan 1. Real populism is gradually percolating into governments and corporations now. Trump and Boris were fake populists, setting the cause back instead of forward. The NAZI “virus” genocide they started…
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Is there a soul damage meter?
Continuing with good and bad assumptions… At the start of the “virus” hoaxocaust I assumed that the precise unison synchronization of NAZI TORTURE would continue. I assumed that Deepstate had blackmail power over ALL governors and mayors. This turned out to be partly false. Mayors were all NAZI, but sane governors in Dixie and Wheatland…
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Literal
I misuse Dillinger’s Law often in a generic or metaphorical way. Why X? Because X is where the money is. Bankman-Fried’s push to regulate and legitimize bitcoin was a precisely literal case of Dillinger. Sam wanted to make his fraud a legal part of the financial system so he could rob banks. = = =…
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Just a replacement
Looking around again to see if religious media are noticing that the Pope died. GetReligion, a website about religion in journalism, hasn’t noticed it yet, but does have another interesting piece on Ryan Burge’s survey data. Conventional wisdom tells us that religion is fading; more and more people are becoming officially atheist or agnostic. Burge…
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You think you’re “socialist”?
In previous item about the misplacement of the Woke source, I noted that old-style Marxists in academia had given us objective and realistic descriptions of history and social structures and language. I was trying to remember the name of a Marxist linguist whose work I once read, and tried googling with no success. I was…
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Used to be called torture.
VR makes people ill, so here’s a handy guide for capitalists who want to make VR mandatory in business. Hints and kinks for minimizing the illness. Before 2020 this used to be called NAZI TORTURE and VIOLENT SADISM. Now it’s the latest and best thing in tech, and a wonderful way for venture capitalists to…
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