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Renewing the pledge
Polistra and friends stand in solidarity with SCIENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT, attempting to form a counterbalance to the endlessly renewed tyranny of SCIENCE AS DEMONIC TORTURE AND HOLOCAUST. Science as entertainment was first presented here.
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More on the two pies
Continuing from here, on the economic similarity and political distinction between the tech IPOs (unicorns) and the bitcoin world. There’s another similarity, less obvious but possibly more important. Both of these Innovative Disruptions depend on massive quantities of cheap energy. In other words they depend on COAL. Bitcoin is being starved from two sources. The…
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Fuck verified
A few days ago I noticed “ballgags encouraged” in the store, and a verbal announcement in the bus. At that time I didn’t see any official mentions on media or websites. Now it’s verified. Via KXLY: People in six Washington counties should begin wearing strangulation devices indoors in public and on public transportation again, according…
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Neighborhood puzzle
A week ago I heard an odd noise around 5AM. Sounded sort of like a skateboard but not quite. I peeked out the window. It was a young man pulling an office chair down the street. I could see a piece of paper on the chair. AHA! I’ve done the same thing a few times.…
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More Xirn Xibbles
Kirn is making a strong point here, but I can still find a way to quibble! Note to my bumptious unorthodox younger friends: Lots of tricky “honey pots” on this site right now meant to draw you by degrees into anti-whomever grunting neo-primitivism so you can go on a big list to be used against…
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Two pies on the menu
Speaking of Tau, here’s a half-baked thought. Bitcoin and tech unicorn IPOs are opposite political sides of the same economic bubble. Both are aimed at the same demographic group of suckers, young white males. The economic pied-piper is identical for both styles of pie. Standard bubble technique, practiced for 400 years. 1. Central banks blow…
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The ultimate website for Scrip
For many years I’ve been trying to make the point that bitcoin is the EXACT OPPOSITE of decentralized. When all transactions are made and recorded on ONE SINGLE LEDGER, and the ONE SINGLE LEDGER is contained inside NSA’s web, you are ultimately and infinitely centralized in the worst possible way. Ordinary currency is naturally decentralized.…
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Reprint on pure math
The two ‘missed points’ in previous item combine neatly to inspire a reprint from last year. = = = = = Normal people correctly associate heft with value. This makes sense in most real products. A car or house built with thicker materials and bigger beams WILL last longer, and WILL be more resistant to…
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Two missed AI points
Not hugely important, but I’ve started this tradition and might as well maintain it. = = = = = Marks at MindMatters has a long podcast on the latest proposals and projects using AI. There are two notable missed points: = = = = = National Football League is holding a competition to develop AI…
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Hard answer to soft question 2
EnidBuzz asked about best vacation memories. Most were default: Grandma, Beaches, Disney, Branson. Second prize: We ran a farm. What’s a vacation? First prize: Watching squirrels eat my sister’s birthday cake. = = = = = [Previous hard answer contest]
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Giant waste of talent
There’s an interesting desistance movement in videogaming. Influencers are ganging up on game companies that specialize in addictive gambling with REAL MONEY. At the moment the worst offender is Diablo Immortal. The influencers, who have been playing the game intensively, have figured out all the super-complex steps needed to … win? Well, it’s not really…
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Good old CIA-sponsored “resistance”
Checking the latest uploads at American Radio Library, tried a 1966 issue of Downbeat, the jazz magazine. Might be some pretty ’60s girls or some interesting old tech. No pretty girls; jazzMEN were all MEN. No interesting tech; jazzMEN didn’t go for electronics. Instead, some insights into the Deepstate-sponsored “rebellion” of jazz. I’d already noted…
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Allocation, allocation, allocation
One of the programs in my bedtime playlist featured Bing singing Kokomo Indiana. Got me thinking about songs and cities and states. There were two other popular Indiana songs, Gary and Back Home. Gary and Kokomo are novelty songs, mainly having fun with the syllables, not intended as a tribute. Back Home was a proper…
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What am I comparing with?
Lately I’ve been fussing about low quality and low quantity of online stuff. Substack is low quality and low quantity. Straight Arrow News is good quality but low quantity. What’s the baseline? What am I comparing them with? I’ve said that old newspapers and broadcasts had a much better mix of topics, a “substantial and…
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No quibbles this time
A nice long interview with Kirn. Highly needed compensation after this morning’s demon strike. Kirn stands back from all branches of nonsense, tribal and partisan and generational, and sees the BIG picture. The best part of the interview starts around 11 minutes, when he takes his father’s experience as a patent attorney dealing with inventors,…
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