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Nice graph humor
Here’s a truly funny piece of graphic wisdom. Most graphs violate this rule. More numbers and more lines DO NOT convey more information. The most common example is polls that show percent approve vs percent disapprove, or percent R vs percent D, as perfectly mirrored lines. Only one of the lines is necessary. The mirror…
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No quibble this time
Kirn gets a bit too ethereal at times, but here he’s rigorously and strictly practical: Free speech is a property right. It is the right to bring to market, in a form that can be valued & used in trade, the products of your own thinking & inner life. To unduly inhibit people’s speech is…
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Ran across this
THEY KNOW IT’S A HOAX BECAUSE THEY MADE THE HOAX … has been true for centuries. Machiavelli and Parkinson exposed it, and nothing changed. While looking for something else I ran across this 1960 letter from Theodore White. He deserves RAW VICIOUS CONTEMPT because he knew the whole thing was a fucking fraud and CONTINUED…
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Betaverse
Trying to be charitable again… What’s new about Zuck’s metaverse? The uncharitable answer is that it’s just an advertising slogan, not a real project or activity. Charitably: Even if it’s a real project it’s neither new nor meaningful. Imagined universes have always been part of human experience. From church to sports to books to radio…
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More rambling on UATX
Most of our institutions are stuck in a Parkinsonian positive feedback loop, often without any real reason. Corporations and universities and media channels keep punching and torturing and strangling their customers, and then they wonder why their customers are running away. Life is negative feedback. If the current path is leading to failure, try something…
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Locustation (reprint from 2015)
Ran into this 2015 item while looking for a different href. It’s a BIG thought, possibly correct, and I’d forgotten it entirely. = = = = = START REPRINT: Thinking again about ‘fight like a plant’, and mixing with my observations about the One Necessary War (ie WW2) and the need for hardass propaganda to…
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Process about process
The world of pure abstraction seems to be falling down, at least in the economic realm. No mystery about the cause. Since 2008 all the central banks have been pumping false “value” directly into the stock market, with a final huge blowup “justified” by the fake “virus” holocaust in 2020. Now the central banks have…
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Carver. Carver. Carver.
Listening to Nesbitt’s ‘Passing Parade’ episode on the development of the giant Palomar telescope. Hale was a rich heir who took up astronomy. He used up his father’s money on building bigger and bigger scopes, and then learned how to lobby other rich men and foundations and governments for more and more money to build…
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Talk to them. Let them talk to you.
Random thought, partly repetitive, returning to the subject of communicating with other planets. Before 1920 most professional scientists (including Darwin) were deists. They believed in purpose, even if Galileo had weakened the hold of purpose on physics. Most scientists were fascinated by the possibility of life elsewhere, and several (including Marconi and Tesla) tried to…
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If we assume (part 2)
I’ve been imagining that the ‘standard’ UFOs were living things and their equipment. An ancient tribe of small winged humans developed a technology based on waves and electric fields. They weren’t limited by theories of atomism and particles, so they figured out how to materialize and dematerialize. They continued existing in and around the Earth,…
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Same both ways
I’ve noted before that UFOs were a perfect reversal of the normal “threat” mechanism. Normally a government feels the need for more power and murder and profit, so it makes up a “threat”. Terrorists, subversives, foreign “attacks” on ships, cyber “attacks” on computers, “viruses”, “toxins”, ad infinitum. Government then creates a stageplay, sometimes totally mythical,…
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Rare
We had a real thunderstorm last night. Real t-storms are rare here, less than one a year. Mostly we get convective popups, with 15 minutes of heavy rain announced by one small lightning. Last night was an hour of heavy rain, with some hail and continuous lightning. Fortunately no major wind in this part of…
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Reprint on tenure
Looking for a href on tenure to reinforce previous item on UATX bait and switch, found this from 2020. It’s a pretty good general roundup of the problem and the solution. = = = = = START REPRINT: Some people are starting to catch on to a chronic long-standing problem, which has become acute and…
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Parallax
This author looks at the new allegedly planned Austin “freedom university” from a Catholic perspective. It’s mostly outside of my secular understanding, but her suspicions end up pretty much the same as mine. We’re marking the same target from different angles. The Catholic viewpoint: UATX is strictly within the Enlightenment framework, with no centerpoint of…
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Should be two awards
AIER is giving its annual Intellectual Courage award to Ioannidis. Perfectly deserved. He’s the ONLY member of the demonic NAZI TORTURER Public “Health” cabal who told us FROM THE FUCKING START that the hoaxocaust was a complete violation and reversal of real public health. Every rational person knew it. Lots of powerless peasants have been…
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