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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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Reveal was only half
Last year I did a series of posts on the lovable Metropolitan. In one item I focused on the door dip, which Nash called the ‘reveal’. = = = = = START REPRINT: A sharp rebuke from Lulu Meservey, one of the Substack executives. Technology is magical. But the language of technology has become generic…
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Brits understood demons
The Brits formerly understood the reality of bureaucracy and the nature of psychopaths better than we did. Parkinson was British. Orwell was British. Even the writers of TV and radio shows painted an accurate picture of demons. Brits are more honest about caste, and they aren’t blind to the FACT that PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT. Our…
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Make it look horrible
Kirn points out the cover of the latest Economist, which has returned to “Climate” Emergency as a brief break between “Virus” Emergencies. The cover is a stalk of wheat with skulls instead of grains. Horrible. (Kirn wasn’t really talking about the art itself, but some of his commenters brought out the connection.) This crystallized a…
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Metrology day 2022, AI version
Today is Metrology Day, but I’m trying to go for Entertainment and Enjoyment this year, so here’s a gathering of AI-generated nonsense from CookingFlavr.com. Is A Meter Long? A meter is a unit of length that is used to measure the distance between two points. The meter is also used as a unit of weight.…
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The muddlers are worse than the cancellers 3
Following on earlier item… The professional anti-cancel forces are at it again, turning a dubious case into a morality play. Some cancels may be genuinely unjust. When an exec has been following the CURRENT rules all the time, and gets fired for failing to predict TODAY’S craziness 30 years in advance, it’s unjust. But as…
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