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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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CC:
I’m sure DeSantis will do something dumb sooner or later, but so far it’s all brilliant. So far he’s the ONLY politician in this entire fucked “country” who is following the FDR tradition, figuring out how to SOLVE PROBLEMS instead of MAKING PROBLEMS. His latest brilliant move is forwarding migrants directly into COOL places like…
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Picture worth 14 trillion words
I linked this graph in previous item about central banks opening the dam in 2020 and now starting to shut the dam. The graph is so extremely extremely extremely extremely extreme that it deserves to be seen on its own. This is the M1 supply of money, basically all the dollars that have been “printed”…
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Reprint on “privacy”
Noticing more idiotic “concerns” that one agency or company might be accessing your private data. THIS IS FUCKING STUPID. Everyone who isn’t hopelessly bound up in partisan soap opera assumes that EVERYTHING IS PUBLIC ALL THE TIME. This isn’t specific to one agency or company, and it’s NOT NEW AT ALL. Only the shockedshocked is…
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Was Emerson right?
In 1840 Emerson wrote: Though no checks to a new evil appear [at first], the checks exist and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict. Nothing arbitrary, nothing…
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Hard answer to soft question 5
Continuing an irrelevant series. The question this time was ‘If free classes were offered, what would you like to learn?’ In this case you could pick out the SERIOUS answer by looking at the names, not the answers. The correlation is perfect. And we wonder why China is winning…
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Booms and busts
An essayist at Medium gives us 12 quotes from Beat Generation philosopher Alan Watts. I read the piece to see if his selection was the same as mine. Nope, it was disjunct. He remembered and treasured the stuff that I had tossed aside as mystical drivel. I read Watts when I was about 14, and…
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Cheaters
Just for fun and weirdness, a couple of items about computers and cheating. = = = = = Via MindMatters, AI is not very good at catching cheaters, but it’s also not very good at cheating. Detecting cheating, at any level of education, is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game. AI, far from being a…
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When the S in ESG really meant something…
EnidBuzz featured the Failing company, and linked to a longer article at Okla Hist Soc. I always admired the deco architecture of the building, but had no real connection with the company or its drilling rigs. The commenters filled out the story. The company treated its workers well, and the founder’s family semi-retired into real…
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Black-boxing Brinkley
Quoting from Frank Edwards’s career biography yet again: = = = = = In 1930 the AMA delivered a bolt from the blue: Brinkley’s goat-gland operation, they said, was an impossibility. It could not be performed as Brinkley claimed. Brinkley immediately filed suit against AMA seeking damages of $600,000. “I am not a member of…
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Patent pain and Bain
Continuing on the futility and stupidity of patents…. This article in Frontiers Magazine tells the story of Alexander Bain. He worked for a watchmaker, and started mixing electricity with clocks in wildly imaginative ways. I’ve featured his absolutely futuristic tactile fax machine, reprinted below. This wasn’t practical for business use because it required turning the…
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Less enticing
Via Web3 is going great, it sounds like Starbucks is developing an outright cult with NFTs. From the Starbucks website: = = = = = New Starbucks Odyssey experience will offer members the ability to earn and buy digital collectible stamps (NFTs) that will unlock access to new, immersive coffee experiences. Starbucks Odyssey will be…
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