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RTFM, idiot.
In Kirn’s continuing discussion of misdefinition, one commenter says: Half-seriously just waiting at this point for the Regime to redefine election victory: “Ballot totals are only part of the story. To truly understand who won an election, we need to take a holistic look at a number of variables…” That’s not a wild ironic redefinition,…
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Not new
Kirn is musing on the arbitrary definitions of recession and inflation. The whole late 20th Century notion that your immediate experience is less reliable than information broadcast on electronic screens needs to be reconsidered. It was a case of mistaking science fiction for fact and stemmed from a kind of daft optimistic boom-times delirium. Well,…
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AI comprehends comprehension
I hadn’t looked at good old CookingFlavr.com in a while. Today it’s treading into my area of partial expertise, language and speech. Quoting the definitive and authoritative definition: = = = = = There is Plenty of Evidence to Support the Claim That Solely responsible for language comprehension is a False Claim. First and foremost,…
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Hard answer to soft question 3
Third in a stupid series. EnidBuzz asked: What do you like to do the old-fashioned way? Most common answer: Everything. Hard answer (lit and fig): Your mom. = = = = = FWIW, I’m pretty damn old-fashioned, but I’m newfangled in one way. Many of the commenters mentioned drying clothes on the line. Nope, I’ll…
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2014 prophecy
In previous item about two big walkbacks of “scientific” errors, I asked why these two errors were so easy to fund and so hard to find. The answer is obvious: When a problem is “caused” by chemistry, it can be “solved” by pharmaceuticals. I remembered writing several pieces about the 1920s ascent of the pill-pushers,…
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More BIG
Wesley Smith hits hard on two BIG corrections in BIG medical topics. Two longstanding orthodoxies have been PROVED wrong. 1. Depression is caused by biochemistry. Wrong but probably not fraudulent. 2. Alzheimers is caused by plaque. Wrong and deliberate fraud. THIS IS BIG. I already know 1 is wrong, because I’ve figured out non-chemical ways…
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Fairness Doctrine with a vengeance!
I’ve been noticing some small-scale attempts to recapture the Fairness Doctrine, like StraightArrowNews. Via Kirn yet again…. The Disney-backed streaming service Hulu is refusing to run political ads on central themes of Democratic midterm campaigns, including abortion, guns and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, prompting fury from the party’s candidates and leaders.…
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Combining
Combining previous and previous. I discussed the communication systems of bees and flowers. I discussed the common ground of a trust-based economy. I noted that a website about plant intelligence was obviously old, obviously a living fossil. It featured MOV videos, which are ‘no longer supported’ by Apple. The Github syndrome, constantly EOLing every useful…
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Islands
Kirn is active tonight! No man is an island, but perhaps ten thousand people can be an island, and society can be a chain or network of connected yet still largely self-sufficient islands. This ever- enlarging, ever-consolidating pyramidal model is showing its age. = = = = = START REPRINT: Hawala or scrip is the…
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Time scales
Kirn pointed to this fascination with plant intelligence. “Another example of how living things are all animated, just at different time scales.” The video shows how tendrils seek a support. Plant intelligence is an odd branch of science. It’s been known forever by farmers and beekeepers and others who work with plants, and it’s been…
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Shkreli has a GOOD idea.
Shkreli has finished his 5 years in prison, and DailyMail has an informative interview. Is he reformed? Hell no. I understand the Shkreli type, and I understand prison, and I predicted correctly that he would be an outstanding mentor to other Bad dudes. From the DailyMail: At the top of his post-prison to-do list is…
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Kar Kontest Karma
The deliciously unbought Corvette NFT reminded me of another car contest with a beautiful end. = = = = = START REPRINT: In 1954 Nash held a ‘name this car’ contest to promote the new Metropolitan. They built a custom roadster using the same Austin engine as the Metropolitan, and invited entries to submit names.…
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The opposite of self-liquidating
Lately I’ve been somewhat fascinated by the use of interactive quizzes and ‘self-liquidating premiums’ in radio and other advertising. Smart marketers were able to gain permanent conversion to a product by offering small tokens or premiums, which were fully paid by the customer. NFTs are so horrible that they can’t serve as a self-liquidating premium!…
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Mao in action
From Canada: It’s official. Trudeau’s meeting with provincial agriculture ministers wrapped up yesterday. He is moving forward with a 30% fertilizer reduction. Farms will fail, land will he purchased by billionaires/the government, and people will starve. Farmers are rising up today. = = = = = This is pure explicit genocide, pure Mao, pure Pol…
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Double miss
Somebody on Twitter quoted Chomsky. [I don’t know if this is accurate, just copying what I read…] Chomsky: The US is living under a totalitarian culture much worse than Soviet Union. Soviet Russia could access BBC, Voice of America, German TV. Today Americans are not permitted to hear what Russians are saying. The US has…
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