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Fuck.
The ballgags are returning today after the standard two-month torturer’s pause. New announcements in the bus say “Masks are not required but please mask up and stay home if you’re sick.” New signs in the stores say “Masks encouraged.” The acceleration from encouraged to required will be two weeks. Bet on it. Of course there…
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Another converger
Last week I noted that Batya had been unusually silent for a while. Now she pops up again, joining her fellow fake “independents” in total convergence to Deepstate. The old bait-n-switch game, also known as Pied Piper. Unsurprising but disappointing. She was advancing an important set of principles about the proper role of journalism. Now…
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Another related reprint
From 2018. = = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT: In general 1930s movies and radio were written from a realistic view of human genes and differences. When you’re down you need to understand that you’re permanently down, and shape your life to survive the predicament. Hearing stories about other people who are in various…
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Perfect contrast
Let’s compare the modern military situation with 1941. Now, after 40 years of unbroken mass destruction of America by its own government and corporations, its young men have no physical skills and no emotional reason to help or serve the country. Reprinting a 2019 piece that came from an unusual angle… = = = =…
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What if they gave a war…
Empires can wither and collapse gradually for a long time. The last step generally happens when nobody is willing to fight for imperial expansion. We were about to reach that point after Vietnam, and the emperors forestalled it briefly by avoiding new wars for 15 years. Since 1990 we’ve been fighting more and more useless…
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TODAY IS CAPS LOCK DAY!
CAPS LOCK DAY! OH BOY! MY FAVORITE! APPARENTLY CAPS LOCK DAY WAS INTENDED TO HONOR BILLY MAYS, THE KING OF INFOMERCIALS, WHO ALWAYS TALKED IN THE AUDIO EQUIVALENT OF CAPS LOCK. 6/28 IS ALSO TAU DAY, FOR A MORE OBVIOUS REASON. TAU IS A WORTHY REFORM THAT STANDS NO CHANCE OF ADOPTION. ALL PRACTICAL USES…
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Terrible idea.
US Congress and UK Parliament are starting to consider regulations on bitcoin. Terrible idea. 1. Regulating after the fools have lost their money won’t help anyone. If you’re going to protect fools from voluntarily losing their money, you need to do it on the boom side, not the bust side. The bust itself cures many…
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Schadenfreude is never tiring
I’m repeating this picture happily. Schadenfreude about bitcoin never gets tiring. A refreshing drink on a hot day. Musical accompaniment. Via Wolf Richter: Goldman created Coinbase to rope in the greater fools. Now that the Fed counterfeit press has stopped, bitcoin has stopped. After the “value” of Coinbase dropped from $400 to $40, Goldman is…
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Fairness doctrine continued…
Continuing to look at one potential candidate for improved journalism. After sampling for several days, I’m convinced that Straight Arrow News is genuinely trying for objectivity and neutrality. I don’t think they’re likely to succeed because they’re skipping the most basic definitional element of news: NEW. The website doesn’t seem to change very fast, and…
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Interurbans lasted longer
Spending the afternoon in another Enid history FB page. One of the aerial photos seems to show the Big Horn that I wrote about a few years ago. Most of the pics are purely local and personal interest. This one is interesting in a broader historical sense. It shows a two-car train at the Frisco…
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AI does microbes
The latest Authoritative Information from CookingFlavr.com. The computer said it, I believe it, that settles it. Math is God. Can We Say That Protozoa Is Classified As Animals? There is no one answer to this question as Protozoa are classified as animals by many different sources. Some classify Protozoa as animals because they have a…
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Bioethics and Roe
Wesley Smith writes an inside view of the Roe overturn. Smith has been writing and agitating against bioethics for a long time. He was involved in a 1997 Supreme case that unanimously ruled against a “right” for assisted suicide. The usual bioethics demons, plus MDs (Mengele Demons), were arguing for assisted suicide. Oddly enough the…
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Proudly bankrupt
A new Pew poll of “journalists” and humans is mostly unsurprising. “Journalists” think they’re doing a wonderful job, except for inadequate diversity in their own workplace, and except that “journalists” aren’t paid enough. Humans know that “journalists” are demons. Here’s the one surprising exception that deserves further thought. “Journalists” have an accurate picture of how…
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That’s the purpose.
Continuing the theme of previous item, examining modern shit by trying to transpose it to an earlier era. I’ve got Github updates on my mind today because I just finished shaving an especially dirty yak. I’m cranking up my courseware-making tools for a new edition. One of my processing programs depends on the PIL image-handling…
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The first idiocy of Web3
The picture of Gernsback looking like an idiot got me thinking again about the extreme convoluted idiocy of Web3/Metaverse/NFT/etc. I’m being unfair to Gernsback. He and his writers came up with THOUSANDS of ideas over many decades. A good percentage of the ideas were smart and useful and predictive. This one wasn’t. Every piece of…
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