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Defensible Spaces review 1/6
Unlike the other reviews I’ve been doing this year, the Defensible Spaces theme started with a general feeling, not with a specific piece of science or a specific input. Later a smart scientific idea fertilized the theme. The first exposition of the theme in July 2015: Dreher is hitting his Benedict Option theme again. Stand…
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Defensible Spaces review 2/6
The digital world is built on gang-style traps. After you join Facebook, you’re never out. Every subscription starts as free and then turns into a lifetime obligation. Every program “phones home” and forces daily “updates” to maintain maximum vulnerability and control. (Firefox popped up an update alert as I was typing the previous sentence!) You…
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Defensible Spaces review 3/6
The magnificent Del Giudice idea entered the theme of Defensible Spaces in 2019. Via Phys.org, a genuinely fresh and PRODUCTIVE idea that sounds silly at first glance. Del Giudice doesn’t claim this is a theory, just an open question to spawn new ways of looking: Did the brain develop ‘software’ defenses against behavior-controlling parasites? Many…
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Defensible Spaces review 4/6
How about defensible times? From 2019 again: Roger Scruton’s latest article includes this evocative sentence; At first, I thought that the placeless character of modern housing is a matter of style—the modern materials and proportions, the grammarless disposition of windows and doors, the random orientation along cul-de-sacs that join nothing to nothing. But it soon…
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Defensible Spaces review 5/6
I revisited the Del Giudice theme in April 2020 at the start of the full state of siege, but before ballgags were required. = = = = = Other commentators have been noticing lots of intense dreams during this insane period of total satanic control. They attribute it to the isolation. I’ve also been having…
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Defensible spaces review 6/6
Finishing this series with a potential answer and solution. This line of thinking was inspired by the hail cannons and the cloud seeders. Both of these technologies are forms of self-defense against weather. Both of them WORK. They don’t work perfectly or constantly, but they work VASTLY better than doing nothing at all. Both are…
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When did I see the Viagra?
I figured out INSTANTLY** that this shit was about power, not health. The first mention of the holocaust in this blog was 2/20/20. After that I started to pin down and narrow down various aspects. At first I thought there was a real virus but not a real epidemic. Gradually I decided that the virus,…
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Substack’s manifesto
The founders of Substack have written a clear and careful and thorough defense of PROFIT-BASED OPENNESS. Key point: In a frenzy to kill all the monsters, we keep creating more monsters – and then feeding them. All the while, the range of acceptable viewpoints and voices within each group gets ever narrower. This is the…
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It only works when you’re in charge
Idiot rock musician Neil Young tried to threaten Spotify over Joe Rogan’s “misinformation”. Young said “He goes or I go”, so Spotify obligingly said “Okay, you go.” “He goes or I go” only works when you’re in charge. Young has now learned who’s in charge. Bravo to Spotify for making a NORMAL PROFIT-BASED BUSINESS DECISION,…
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Unshaving the yak
Following on this year’s yak-shaving…. Now it’s time to unshave. After two weeks of slow patient debugging and detours, using little constant/variable tests to eliminate all of the things that WEREN’T causing the problem, I finally eliminated the one thing that WAS causing the problem. Still not sure why it’s a problem in newer versions…
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Greenwald gets it.
The push for yet another war against Russia has stirred up some serious writing. Taibbi, who normally writes with a light and parodic tone, gets serious here. Greenwald, who is always serious, gets even more serious here. Taibbi still misses the main point, constantly focusing on ‘incompetence’ by the demons. They are NEVER incompetent. There’s…
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Provocative but not quite true
Kirn’s latest Provocative Point: Speech and expression are most suppressed and regulated in academia and the media, where you’d think they would be freest. The culture has basically seized up and died in those places. For a revival of the creative spirit we must look to bodegas, casinos, tire shops, and hair salons. “You’d think”,…
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Orby in action
Following on yesterday’s re-memory of the Orby toy… I’ve been deep in C++ programming lately, which is productive but drab, with a sense of mission. Still, I seem to have an unquenchable appetite to make something visible, so here’s a quickie demo of Orby. First the mechanism: Then Orby in his original habitat, a 1957…
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Random musings on interactivity
Wolf made his usual excellent charts about the steep decline of movie theaters. Number of tickets peaked in 2002, then gradually fell off until the “virus” holocaust. Why 2002? That’s when the web became mature and fast for most people. Most types of information had theatrical versions and private versions for many centuries. The web…
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This makes me feel awful.
Via Kirn: I’m hearing far too many reports — not on the news, but from people I know — of young children struggling with speech issues as a consequence of masking. In a couple of cases, parents can’t find therapists willing to go unmasked during sessions. This is stunning. Several of the responders gave personal…
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