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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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Instant sale
For ten years I’d been walking and watching one vacant apartment building in the neighborhood. The renovation process was LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG at the start and fast at the finish. Five years of occasional activity, followed by five months of real work. They rented the apts on 11/25/21. Then they immediately started building two new houses across…
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Changed assumption
Thinking about the bitcoiners following their gurus, and thinking about the Google guy with his beloved AI, leads to a counterintuitive conclusion. There are always lonely people who fall into cults, and there are always poor people who fall for gambling and lotteries. A functional civilization should try to minimize those problems in two ways.…
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Fairness Doctrine returns?
Denyse called attention to a fresh news organization called Straight Arrow News. It was founded by a cancelled USA Today editor. I’m trying it out. Unlike most of the Cancelleds, it isn’t OBVIOUSLY converging to Deepstate YET. Unlike any other news organization, it has a direct feedback mechanism. When you watch the short videos of…
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Looks familiar somehow
Hugo Gernsback imagined this in 1936, and thought the world was ready in 1960…… It didn’t sell in 1936, it didn’t sell in 1960, it didn’t sell in 1980, and it doesn’t sell now. Only stupid venture capitalists think this is a worthy idea. = = = = = I can’t figure out VCs. There’s…
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Mon[]ey
The California restaurant that claimed to accept monkey-style bitcoin for payment has stopped accepting monkey-style bitcoin. It still accepts nasty old fiat money. I suspect they only took one actual “payment” in monkey money, for the promotion, before they switched from monkey money to money money. Apparently the monkeyburgers weren’t actual monkey meat but nasty…
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Is vs Was
Here’s a nice clear article from Catholic World Report on the super-clear question of gender. The author runs through some of the sillier theological disputes that have divided churches, and contrasts those silly theological issues with the basic SCIENTIFIC definitions of life. Real science and real religion agree now on all important questions of reality.…
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Does he understand the endgame?
Last month a Google programmer fell in love with his AI, and most commentators saw this as a bizarre new thing. I pointed out that this is EXACTLY the oldest response to conversational software, seen immediately with Eliza in 1964. Now the Google guy is talking Wokish, claiming that the AI deserves to be legally…
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Squirrels all over the place!
As usual we have a clusterfuck of misdirections about inflation. The media and their DNC bosses are straightforwardly blaming Putin’s reclaiming of Russian territory for our 40-year internal destruction of our own economy. This is so blatantly stupid that nobody is bothering to discuss or refute it. Everyone recognizes that inflation has been rising for…
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