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All the fine old swindles 2
Cathie Woods alias ARK Invest is a classic swindler who somehow got into a position of respected power and influence. Her claims are identical to the techy con men of 70 years ago, pushing Perpetual Energy Machines or Magic Gasoline Tablets. She says that AI will give us annual doubling of the economy. This is…
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Model of the solution
MindMatters is worrying about hard-to-detect deepfakes in “scientific” research. As with replication, this is not a serious problem, and doesn’t affect real research. The real problem is tenure and federal funding. Quantity, not quality. The vast QUANTITY of low QUALITY papers is a direct result of tenure and grants. These papers don’t matter because real…
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More mechanical Tur(k)ing
Sometimes I wonder if cookingflavr.com is at least part human, like the similar machine expertly exposed by Eric Holloway.. = = = = = Whats A Capper Food? A capper food is a type of food that is used to cover the end of a spoon or fork to help prevent food from spilling. What…
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All the fine old swindles
I enjoy watching the bitcoin idiots “rediscover” and fall for all the old scams. A bitcoin thingy called Solana made a big deal of keeping perfectly accurate time “on the chain”, which is obviously necessary because obviously there are no other clocks in the world. Just like grasshoppers are the only living things that can…
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It’s a book code.
Trying to track the latest in Elon vs Twitter, I noticed that Faker Trump is getting into the act with his usual random whiplash, countering Elon’s random whiplash. I’ve discussed this post-1990 style of random-sounding disorganized emissions from leaders and commentators. It’s dramatically different from the previous organized structure. Bush Senior started it in politics,…
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AI does wokeness
Frisco continues to provide gifts for watchers of syphilitic madness: The word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word’s connotation with Native Americans. A replacement term has not been determined. = = = =…
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AI does bug poems
Now that we’re supposed to start eating bugs, let’s consult the ultimate AI authority on the evolution of insects. From CookingFlavr.com as usual…. = = = = = Did Grasshoppers Existed Before Dinosaurs? Grasshoppers were once widespread in the area that is now the United States. Fossils of grasshoppers have been found in North America…
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Who’s a real church?
A cardinal has declared that Nancy Pelosi can’t receive the crackers and wine. But the order only applies in the cardinal’s own district, and the bishop of DC is ignoring the order. Yessirreeee, that’ll teach old Nancy a lesson! She will mend her ways immediately and become a contemplative nun! Total penitence! Aside from the…
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More reprint on same subject
Continuing from previous. Here’s a clear thought from 2018, before the torture chamber reduced me to a stupid beast begging for mere survival. = = = = = START REPRINT: Yet another proposal to counteract big money in politics: At their heart, political campaigns are no different than any other organization: they need to raise…
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Is Greenwald a Republican?
He’s certainly acting like one. I’m not talking about the official talking points as of the current picosecond, I’m talking about the most long-lasting and consistent idiocy of the US Repooflican Party. Their permanent goal is ZERO TAX, or more broadly GOVERNMENT MUST NEVER PAY FOR SERVICE. I was especially struck by the meaningless coincidence…
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Sunroof mystery
One of the little mysteries of auto history is the soft spot in roofs. Metal shaping technology wasn’t up to the task of pressing out a complete rooftop without wrinkling and stretching the middle. GM finally perfected the ‘deep-draw press’ in 1935, and others soon copied. I’ve been puzzled by the continued use of crude…
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Salty genes
This is a WONDERFUL story. A British church found an 1897 letter stuck between parts of a pew while remodeling. The letter sounded like a last-moment plea for salvation by a hopeless boy. He signed his name W. Elliott, so historians were able to trace the rest of the story. Elliott was orphaned when his…
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When you own everything
Previously I’ve been unconvinced by the hype on both sides about WEF and Davos. After two years of carefully organized and rehearsed universal torture, I’m paying attention now. This Rumble video is a quick tour of Davos today. Two things stand out: (1) The streets are lined with a Potemkin Village of fake storefronts solely…
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More Quirn Quibbles
Kirn’s latest pithy point: How many times have I heard it argued that God’s apparent silence argues for his non-existence? Well, mountains exist & they are silent, mostly. Indeed, I’ve come to feel that the most silent things around us exist more durably than the noisy ones, which merely come & go. Yes, but mere…
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Not always obvious…
Via Protos, a largely pro-bitcoin aggregator. Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s PAC of choice infused a record-breaking $11.3 million into political candidate Carrick Flynn, whose dramatic loss to Andrea Salinas in the Democratic primary for Oregon’s new 6th congressional district illustrates a hard-learned truth in American politics: wealth cannot guarantee political success. Just ask Michael Bloomberg,…
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