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Somehow regenerate
Kirn’s latest pithy point: All the great histories agree: the world is very used to being ruined. That’s what it does best, in fact. Endlessly absorb ruination & then somehow regenerate the orderly conditions necessary for the next ruination. True before 2020. Life creates order and beauty. Psychopaths create chaos and horrible ugliness and ruination…
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Putting UFOs onto the timeline
Two very different men with the same initials. = = = = = Alphia Hart mentioned the UFO craze often, and not only because it was a kindred unorthodox spirit. Hart’s specific mission was debunking the Hubbard cult, which is based on a wild story about alien contacts. Now that I know some of the…
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It’s all about caste
Headline at MindMatters: Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe In Carl Sagan’s Contact, the extraterrestrials embedded a message in the irrational number pi (the circumference of a circle divided by its radius). But some other numbers are critical to the structure of our universe too — and why they are critical does…
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Deceptive standard wisdom
Our thinking about economics and technology and history is full of standard “wisdom” that isn’t remotely true when you stop to think about it. Ran into a couple of those standard wisdoms in automotive articles this week. Collectible Auto mag has a feature on the ’28 to ’30 Cadillac. The author commits two standard wisdoms…
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Outlaw intellectuals
Kirn’s latest pithy point: My studied belief is that America’s greatest wealth is its oddballs, weirdos, seers, compulsives & autodidacts. They’ve transformed science, business, religion & the arts. Making more space, not less, for nonconformity & improvisation is the way of prosperous peaceful flourishing. This wasn’t true of the whole country, and it’s no longer…
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No, it’s not falling behind
The latest stupid lawsuit claims that the plaintiff bought a ‘rare NFT’ but it wasn’t rare enough or something. So he’s suing to get back the 500k he spent for the ‘rare NFT’. An attorney on the other side says: “We are in a world where copyright is many years behind the art world and…
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Google’s ancestor
Returning to Say the black and do the red. Media and “science” were formerly indicative, now imperative. Media and “science” were formerly passive description, now absolute gunpoint commands. Here’s a previous example of media as absolute command, from Wireless World, July 1939. Broadcasting occupies a special position in Germany. It is the official mouthpiece of…
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Interesting thought, uninteresting research
An interesting thought contained in a mostly uninteresting research paper. The abstract: Many economic decisions, such as whether to invest in developing new skills, change professions, or purchase a new technology, benefit from accurate estimation of skill acquisition. We examine the accuracy of such predictions by having experimental participants predict the speed at which they…
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From Liberty Sausage to Liberty Lounge
Back in 2016 as usual, I noted an odd exception to our standard idiocy. = = = = = START REPRINT: Russia is our enemy because Russia shows that Life Outside The Empire can succeed. We cannot allow such an example to persist. Modern Russia’s success includes a strong connection between national government and national…
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The logic of openness
I’ve been cranky the last few days because I ran out of graphics projects. I need a project to ground my mind. So I searched around and homed in on some 1930s electronic stuff related to cryptography. I’ve been writing on traffic analysis, might as well ‘concretize’ it. The first item I picked was a…
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Dead serious
I’m not the only one whose mind has been derailed by the “virus” holocaust. DEAD SERIOUS. THE DEMONS HAVE KILLED MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE AND PERMANENTLY RUINED ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS UNFORTUNATE PLANET. 7 BILLION INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SACRIFICED FOR THE SEXUAL PLEASURE OF PSYCHOPATHS. The demons will NEVER be punished. Instead, the…
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Traffic analysis and caste
Following on this mention of traffic analysis and bitcoin. Spies and counterspies don’t need to know what you’re saying. They only need to know who you are and who you’re talking with. This extends to the common and stupid misconception of censorship. Advocates of “liberty” and “rights” always focus on the CONTENT of the message.…
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Not what BVM meant
Zuhlsdorf catches a revealing inconsistency in Bergoglio’s fake “peace” consecration. Bergoglio is following Deepstate as always, obeying NSA and CIA and Wall Street. He’s attempting to treat Russia and Ukraine as historically separate because Deepstate wants to separate them. When Mary called for the consecration of Russia through the Fatima girls, she meant the constant…
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More on the converse hoax rule
Another reprint from 2016-2017. Seems like I was on a roll then, before the “virus” holocaust derailed my mind. = = = = = Here’s a rule that runs parallel to the poker/sucker thing. I never understood the poker/sucker thing because I don’t gamble. I understand this rule. Most likely nobody else will, but fuck…
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Unsurprisingly
After writing about Frank Edwards, the newscaster who found his niche in UFOlogy, I started looking for related material. Surprisingly, Archive.org has an organized collection of the material, curated by Wendy Connors in the ’90s. There’s a huge amount of material: the UFO Hotline, news broadcasts, private interviews with Hynek and others, comedies that happened…
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