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Why 1907 needed scrip
Enid Buzz posted this ad from an Enid clothing store in 1907. On account of scarcity of currency reminds us that the Panic of 1907 was a huge but brief Innovative Disruption, sponsored by Innovative Disruptor Edison. Scrip was born in this depression, and resurrected in 1933 when FDR broke the banks to restore the…
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Not enough Parkinson
The data-gatherers are still somewhat innocent of the way the world works. In response to demon Emily Oster’s announcement that there will be an amnesty, the data-gatherers are invoking “rights” and “laws” and “morality”. None of those myths can possibly affect the behavior of demons. We’ll never have a Nuremberg. The original Nuremberg was enforced…
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Alien beeings
Latest research on bees and charge: For about three minutes, part of the migrating swarm passed over the electric field monitor. This revealed a net positive field intensity of 100 volts per meter at peak density. This effect was not observed in a second control meter positioned in the open field 50 meters away from…
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Whole lot of Paid Pipers
Pied, paid, all the same. Now that Elon has bought Twitter, both “sides” are bringing in the people that Deepstate wants to monitor and cultivate. The “right” is directly inviting them, and the “left” is inviting them by mocking them.** Both sides are conveniently skipping over Elon’s LONG connection with Deepstate. His SpaceX and Starlink…
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Introview squared!
A few months ago I coined the word introview for an interview conducted by an introvert. Here we have a double introview! Lots of real Shannon information, real news that breaks up standard ideas. Even though I’m a solid introvert, a double exposure of non-eye-contactors in a show business situation is disconcerting and hard to…
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Easy answer
Evolution News asks if there’s a way to bring back Aristotle’s PURPOSE in a scientific and testable way. Easy. Negative feedback. A loop always has a goal variable. Loops are observable in action, and the simpler loops can be seen physically as neural pathways or mechanical or hydraulic systems in the organism. Inanimate objects can…
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The ultimate rejection
Facts of life: (1) A woman would rather be ruined by a cool man than helped by an uncool man. (2) A man would rather be ruined by a cool woman than helped by an uncool woman. Civilization tried to mitigate these facts by encouraging a division of labor and judging mates by their respective…
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Random on HA
Random additional thoughts about the long-overdue loosening of cartel regs on hearing aids. The regulations never made sense. Aside from building your own, there were many hearing assistance devices available openly without prescription or license. Bell offered amplified telephones since the 1920s. Zenith offered amplified TVs with special headphones in the ’50s. The FDA was…
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Dow is all? Not new.
I’ve been bitching that ALL “news” sources and commentators, whether “left” or “right”, start with the assumption that Wall Street is the entire economy. When the central bank gives Wall Street an orgasm, ALL “news” takes it as good for the country. When the central bank gives Wall Street an ouchie, ALL “news” takes it…
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Signs of sanity
While most commentators “left” and “right” are screaming at the central banks to turn on the counterfeit fountains again, it’s refreshing to see an establishment voice who recognizes the new situation as NORMAL and a GOOD BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. Richard Rushfield sees the end of the Share Value ESG era as the end of Big Bets…
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One non-bad thing
Matt Stoller has been trying to persuade us that anti-trust regulation is improving. I’ve been waiting for VISIBLE EVIDENCE. The antitrusters have finally provided VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE EVIDENCE, and it’s in an area I know well. EnidBuzz features Evans Drug demonstrating the new over-the-counter hearing aids, which are connected through an iPhone. Oddly enough, this…
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THE LUCITE IS GONE!
IT’S OVER. I’ve been saying from the start that I wouldn’t call the NAZI TORTURE finished until the Lucite disappears. The real purpose of the Lucite was to protect clerks and drivers from enraged concentration camp prisoners, not to “protect” anyone from “viruses”. As long as the Lucite was in place, the rest of the…
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Needs more Mach
I think this guy is genuinely puzzled, not an AP game player. He’s asking the right questions but he doesn’t know enough history. Right questions: How does DHS justify its evolving mission from countering foreign terror groups to policing domestic “disinfo” on social media? Leaked planning docs show the agency argues false information is a…
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Short about long, long about short
Continuing from previous. This week I decided to go for gold in the short radio department. Archive has a huge set of the shortest “programs” of all. Produced by the Ripley empire, each is 1:05, divided into 10 seconds of intro music, 15 seconds of Story 1, 5 seconds of expandable pause for your commercial,…
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When does short form win?
This writer on Medium makes a fairly straightforward and clear argument, with the aid of an informative graph. He gets the timeline and the constants and variables right. Facebook took over the world by expanding into every possible country, and then sat on its laurels too long. Tiktok and Instagram opened up the short-form video…
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