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Best prescription
Writing in City Journal, NS Lyons diagnoses the rebels of this age precisely and comprehensively, and offers the most REALISTIC prospect for a solution. Lyons gives too much credit to Trump. Like many other sympathetic diagnosers, he believes Trump was blindsided by Deepstate: = = = = = As the Trump administration belatedly discovered, taking…
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Avi does Carver
Avi makes a nice strong Carverian point in this piece. He’s discussing astronomical stuff like gravitational waves and spectral lines. In each case the theoreticians predicted that the signal would never be there, or at best would be ferociously hard to detect among the noise. In each case the signal was perfectly obvious after the…
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Fractal exploration
From the Twitter of Bitsavers, one of the Blessed Preservers of this world: Book that doesn’t exist that needs to: “The Fractal Geometry of Writing” The thought actually started out that whenever I start writing something, I end up going down ratholes that each turn into something that would end up being the length of…
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Waaaaay beyond quibble
Latest from Kirn: AI doesn’t suffer from impostor syndrome, nor does it ever feel suicidal, which is how one knows it isn’t sentient in any meaningful sense. It can never be human-like until it possesses the capacity to review its deeds, judge them, despair, and permanently turn itself off. This is so fucking dumb it’s…
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Why we can’t have nice things
Trite, but applies here. EnidBuzz asked what is the worst TV show. The View was the overwhelming winner for worst show, ESPECIALLY among women. The best answer was only there for a moment. The show about the Indian chief that used to air at midnight. Brilliant! When I tried to put a Like on it,…
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Oldoleth
The latest issue of Collectible Auto arrived today, with a nicely illustrated article on Buick in the ’30s. Auto writers assume every reader knows the basics of engines and transmissions and suspensions and differentials. Writers will explain unfamiliar antique technologies like sleeve valves, wood-framed bodies, magnetos, and free-wheeling. They always get free-wheeling wrong. This explanation…
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Similar oddity
Thinking about the oddity of Quisp, a mainstream product happily simulating UFOs and cheerfully treating UFOs as real for 60 years, while the government loudly maintained the opposite and sucked up all information that might prove reality. Avi’s project is odd in the same way. He’s totally convinced that his comet is a remnant of…
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Stacks, not Savannahs
Sharp observation from Gary Smith, discussing the perils of letting stats lead you around by the nose: Our distant ancestors benefitted from noticing that elephants could lead them to water and that wildebeest stampedes might warn them of predators. The best pattern spotters were more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their pattern-recognition skills…
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Out of all the parks
Thomas Harrington hits all the balls out of all the parks with this article. He focuses on 1990 as the coup when the Bush family took over the world. Harrington also kicks the alleged “independents” who were “independent” on every issue until the NAZI TORTURERS bought them off. We’ll never know which of them were…
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Now we know what happened!
EnidBuzz asked about your favorite cereal as a kid. No hard answers this time, just one surprise. Many people liked Quaker’s Quisp. It came along after I was more or less grown up and skipping breakfast, so I never heard of it. Maybe this is the answer to the mysterious disappearance of the disc-type UFOs…
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Caste rears its head
Watching a few minutes of the long funeral ceremonies for the queen. Brits know how to queue. Charles is the champion queue-er, patiently waiting his turn for 70 years. Last night people were filing past the coffin with perfect order and silence at all times. Most people just walked past the coffin without looking, but…
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Thinking like an astronomer
Avi is an astronomer, so it’s not shocking that he thinks like an astronomer. The ultimate goal of his project: = = = = = I am often asked why the Galileo Project aims to collect its own data on UAP rather than rely on numerous images taken by cell phone cameras. The reason is…
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They weren’t being chintzy!
Last night I was watching an episode of Radar Patrol vs Spy King, one of those mostly repetitive movie serials from the late ’40s. I vaguely remembered watching this episode several years ago and mocking the fake radar gear. Didn’t they know what real radar looked like? The antenna: The scopes: The trace: Turns out…
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Big news for the renaissance
Avi Loeb has achieved solid crowdfunding for his project to investigate a meteorite. He considers this particular rock found in New Guinea to be a possible UFO. This is a BIG development toward the PROPER functioning of science. Since 1946 (of course) the military has sucked up all potential UFOs and all information about the…
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Picture worth a thousand turtles
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Run. The Cherokee Strip historical society published a poster from an event held by their ancestor in 1933. It caught my attention initially because it was printed by Cromwells, where I worked in the ’70s. The poster is advertising a TERRAPIN DERBY to be held on the square. The…
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