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More Tur(k)ing test
A few weeks ago Eric Holloway set up a fiendishly clever machine vs human test, essentially proving that one of the major AI engines is partly or mostly human. Now he’s done it again. Here’s the sequence leading up to the crucial moment. 153 EMH: what is a belief? 154 GPT-3: A belief is a…
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Walz rehash
Here’s why I continue to keep track of a SANE place (Enid) while living in a NAZI TORTURE CHAMBER (Spokane). Enid is celebrating Bacon Bash for United Way! Sample the best bacon recipes from the cook-off contestants! Spokane is celebrating Compost Fair! Learn composting recipes from the Master Composter! = = = = = Reprinting…
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Winged metrologists
I bought several of Frank Edwards’s books on UFOs and other subjects. Near the end of his short life he was following the model of Hix and MacHarrie and Nesbitt, producing a set of books and short radio features on historical and scientific oddities, well beyond UFOs. All of these ‘Fortean’ writers were presenting known…
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The ultimate one-liner
Last week I made a bet that Elon wasn’t serious about buying Twitter. I lost, and I’m provisionally glad. Still not clear what he will do with his new toy. But: unlike all other billionaires, Elon is capable of occasionally doing the right thing. He protected his Tesla factory workers from muzzles and vaxes. Maybe…
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Fast service!
The CryptoMuseum, primary source for my last three animations, has scored a scoop. After pestering the government for many years, they finally got a FOIA release. Fast service! Only 70 years! In 1945 KGB built a remarkably elegant ‘RFID’ responder microphone into a big wooden Great Seal sculpture. As part of the mutual admiration ceremonies…
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Peilempfänger
Part 3 of a vaguely defined theme on obscure spy equipment. Part 1 was the first American radar. Part 2 was the Russian Tenzor portable spy rig. Today I’m featuring a Kraut portable direction finder or Peilempfänger. (Peilen = take a compass bearing; Empfänger = receiver.) It’s not as interesting as the other two, so…
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Gets it
The Enid Buzz fb page asked who had CB radios. Here’s a reply that GETS IT: The FCC did regulate CB indirectly. CB radios had to be prepackaged. The manufacturers had to keep the power below 5 watts ‘gross’, and had to maintain accurate frequency. Homebrewers who built 1 kilowatt amplifiers got caught pretty quickly.…
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More on vanished knowledge
Continuing from previous item on mass forgetting… We do know a few things now that weren’t known, or weren’t easily available, in the ’60s, and these new bits of info should inform our discussion now. The earlier UFO thinkers were reluctant to conclude that the devices were ours, because (1) Nobody can keep a secret.…
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No excuse
For a month or two I’ve been pleasantly marinating in UFO discussions, mainly from the mid 60s. Thanks to archivist Wendy Connors, we have a huge well-organized selection of radio programs and interviews. Earlier today I was reminded of Avi Loeb’s pet UFO, and watched some of his recent interviews. He hits the failings of…
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Wish I could find this again…
Every profession and guild occasionally has a spasm of soul-searching, sometimes prompted by a defeat, sometimes more general. Science journals publish these fake pieces fairly often, and EVERYONE KNOWS that nothing will change. We need to persuade the filthy three-toothed Christer Trumper Birther Hillbilly Neanderthals. Why can’t we persuade the subhuman brainless fascists? The problem…
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Indirect ping
I just noticed something while reading Greenwald’s latest piece on the completely irrelevant Taylor Whatever Doxing thing. Greenwald bounces off the original subject into the big problem with “journalism”, and tells about his own awakening in the Vietnam era when journalism switched from 80% DNC to 100% DNC partisanship. Here’s the sudden ping, which isn’t…
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Poor comparison
Let’s try a comparison of the clubs and interest groups in the 1950s UFO craze vs the 2020 “virus” holocaust. The comparison is messy from the start because the government’s experiments were opposite in form and scale. So I can’t draw a proper analogy. I’m just looking at the organizations. UFO: Government was experimenting with…
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As usual the reason matters more than the content….
According to Vice, Deepstate has “released” a bunch of documents about its UFO research programs. Skimming some of the links, it appears that nothing much has changed since the ’50s. The government was “trying” to achieve antigravity propulsion in Project AVRO back then, and it’s still “trying” the same thing. The beta tests of these…
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Classy Spokane
Bank robbers in the meth era just don’t measure up to the old Dillinger standard: Uhaul trucks have governed engines. You can’t achieve a “high rate” in a Uhaul, unless they mean a “high rate” of absurdity.
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First day of freedom
A couple observations from the first UNGAGGED bus trip in two fucking years. 1. I had been rigorously minimizing Time Under Ballgag, with only two hellish storetrips per week. Before the Nazi takeover I was generally doing three trips, because they were enjoyable. Now I can return to three when needed, but the concomitant changes…
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