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Reparations for Hessian Genocide!!!!!
Via LiveScience, archeologists in New Jersey have found a mass grave with 17 Hessian mercenaries who were fighting for the Brits in 1776. We need to pay reparations to the Duchy of Hesse! Now! Find the descendants of Ernst Ludwig, the last official Grand Duke of Hesse, and make them whole!!! Probably a few trillion…
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It’s Bab-O all the way down!
Duane Jones told several stories about his campaigns for Bab-O soaps and cleansers. He also told how the Babbitt Soap Company invented the whole concept of the premium: Around 1850, Benjamin Babbitt had switched from machinist to soap-maker, because he believed that in the long run it would prove more profitable. And being a shrewd…
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Code talkers
It’s relatively clear that Substack is getting ready for a big convergence of some kind. Maybe they’ll be bought up by Twitter, or funded by Soros. I don’t have any idea what’s next, but it’s clear that something is next, and next is always worse. Today their ‘director of communications’ is leaving for bigger pastures.…
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Dams
A great image from Kirn: Every day little dams are being placed in the rushing current of the English language. The builders think they will hold. They believe new technologies will help their project succeed. Shakespeare laughs. More to the point, pimps and hoes laugh. New language comes from the peasants, not from the writers.…
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WWJD?
This week I’ve been quoting Duane Jones’s 1955 book on marketing and business practices. What would Jones say about Bitcoin and Metaverse and NFT? Facebook is primarily an advertising agency, so it certainly fits inside the topic. Jones couldn’t have imagined such MAGNIFICENT STUPIDITY. He worked in a period (1930-1960) when businesses functioned on PROFIT,…
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How to succeed in business
After screwing up Facebook’s main usable features, spending billions on the never-successful VR, and then screwing up Instagram’s main usable features, Zuck has discovered the MAGIC KEY to success!!! Can you guess success? Yes, you guessed success! Success is spelled And not just any old NFT. No sir, no dull drab pipe-smoking monkeys. Only the…
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More chintzy
Following on Zuck’s chintzy metaverse. Substack is also chintzy in an obvious front-facing piece of UI. It’s not hard to adjust singular/plural to the number. I do it in courseware, on the countdown of quiz questions: If one creaky old dude with near-zero budget and near-zero JS skills can do it, surely Substack with its…
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Speaking of brands and senses….
EnidBuzz asks for your favorite back-to-school memory. The responses show a clear separation between introverts and extroverts. Introvert: One year closer to it being over. Extrovert: Going to school to check the class lists to see if my friends were in my classes. Common factor: The smell of Crayolas. Interestingly, many people remember getting their…
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Temporation vs Parkinson
Civilization requires resonance. A strong culture has a place for everyone and a time for everything, at the daily level and the seasonal level and the lifetime level. Detemporation is a prime murder weapon for demons. In every conceivable way, demons break up natural resonances. Deepstate-sponsored music and art are atonal and random. Psychopaths give…
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As usual 2
Immediately following on previous item about innocent AI. As usual, CookingFlavr.com comes through with the perfect example. How To Stop Being The Back Burner Girl? August 2, 2022 Being the “back burner” girl is one of the most common things that girls do. They put all their focus on the present and don’t think about…
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As usual
As usual, Denyse at MindMatters has a funny take on AI attempting to write ad copy. AI can provide cues and alternate phrasings, but humans have to generate the ideas and select the phrases that work. As usual, Duane Jones handled this question in 1955, though not with computers in mind. (Computers were already trying…
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Why so chintzy?
Zuck’s latest ‘demo tape’ of the metaverse features a supersimple 2d-looking model of Zuck himself talking with a supersimple 2d-looking model of Neil Degrasse. Both of them suffer from sacral agenesis. They don’t have a pelvis or legs. This seems to be the standard in the allegedly 3d metaverse. There’s absolutely no excuse for this…
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Clever use of Sucker Filter
Tiffany’s has come up with the ultimate leverage for the Sucker Filter. Tiffany is turning horrible 12-pixel NFTs into real physical mosaics made of gems, which is a brilliant craft metaphor. Mosaics are pixelated by definition. The Sucker Filter arises from the conditions of purchase. The mosaic costs $50k, but you can’t just buy it…
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Wishes are horses
While waiting for the bus in front of the store, I noticed an ordinary** car parking fairly close to me, which caught my attention. Typical mid-size ’90s GM sedan in good shape. The store isn’t crowded at this hour, so customers park near the store, not near the street. Must be a store employee? Nope.…
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GREAT Fairness Doctrine work
StraightArrowNews wins the blue ribbon with this feature on the border wall. In just a couple minutes they dissolve the partisan crap from both sides. Clear graphics show how long the border is, where the walls are and where the gaps are, and the LONG process of gradually strengthening the wall. After seeing this, no…
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