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Weird GIF stuff in WordPress
After a month of using WP, I have mixed feelings. On the pro side: My reason for switching was to get away from censors and takedowns. So far there haven’t been any takedowns. I’ve been speaking the same truth in the same hard language, and nothing has been censored YET. On the con side, WP…
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Katydids part 1, reprint
I wrote this item in 2012. A new piece of related research spurred me to revise and expand. First the 2012 version: = = = = = START REPRINT: Wonderful example of what can happen when you decide to look closely at something, instead of fucking around with numbers and potentialities and apocalyptic religious delusions.…
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Katydids part 2, revision
New research at Bristol takes a closer look and separates out the parts more clearly. So I’ll do the same. First we see Katy walking along a branch, and pausing when she hears something interesting… What does she hear? Perhaps something in the air, or perhaps a vibration on the stem that indicates a tasty…
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Shrier’s speech
Abigail Shrier stated a simple obvious fact and got slammed by all the Cool People. She then tried to give a speech about her book at Princeton and had to give it in a private home with no cameras allowed. (But it’s worth remembering that she wasn’t jailed or officially punished, just socially punished.) Bari…
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Where are the unions?
The situation of workers in 1946 was similar to 2021 in some ways, at least numerically. Employees had been working long hours and multiple shifts during the war, and everyone was DEAD TIRED. Inflation was raging. Corporations wanted to return to normal hours AND normal pay, while prices were getting more and more abnormal. Unions…
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A necessary part of the cure
We should start thinking about the NEVER AGAIN process, to insure that demonic torturers can’t take over the entire world. (For a while.) We know that there won’t be a Nuremberg or anything remotely resembling “justice”. Demons are only prosecuted for INEFFICIENT OR INADEQUATE EVIL, never for doing too much evil. We will have to…
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Old thoughts on replication
I’m redoing and expanding my old katydid animation, in response to a new piece of research that expands the parallels between the katydid cochlea and ours. More on that in a couple of days. While looking at the old version, I came across an abandoned set of thoughts in 2016. The abandoned thoughts are worth…
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Michelet on how it ends
I’ve been citing and quoting Michelet’s magnificent 1904 essay on the Inquisition. Michelet was writing at a time when the psychopaths had been out of power for quite a while. The French scientific genocide faded in 1800 as Napoleon turned into a more ordinary imperialist, focused on expanding Empire instead of exterminating his own people.…
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Rambling on subness
Meaningless subcultures are infinitely dense and varied. Digital makes it possible to microdivide Freud’s ‘narcissism of small differences’ down to the quark level. Reading this Vice article on the latest NFT, which is predictably generating new subsublayers of fake dispute with real death threats. Crazy Frog, the 3D animated amphibian that haunted anyone alive in…
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Cui bono? Non-combatants.
I went to sleep listening to those 1940 news broadcasts, when US was trying to benefit from neutrality without getting involved in the war. Woke up after only two hours, with a bad dream about being pursued by two sides. Then the next item in the playlist was this episode of Calling All Detectives, where…
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Amazon Shirtwaist Factory
This is so egregiously disgusting that even the media are halfway mentioning it. A tornado destroys an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, and the muzzled workers are told not to leave. They die. Afterward, Bezos parties with his unmuzzled demonic buddies and publicizes the rocket that will take Bezos out into space. Message: You can’t leave…
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Only the media is worse.
A pair of CBS news broadcasts from June 1940 show that Repooflicans were just as cowardly then as now. The difference is in the media, which was REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE FAIR in 1940. Both parties were having their conventions, which were more genuine then. Real decisions were made IN the convention BY the…
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Another car mystery
Old Egyptian and Turkish movies often show alternate versions of American cars. Here’s a Plymsoto. Here’s a rare Packard limo. Here’s a Weird Willys. Some of these are known factory variants, others seem to be either homemade or perhaps manufactured in small quantities by dealers. Now a new puzzle in an Egyptian movie: It’s a…
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Ethics = Holocaust.
Via EvoNews, bioethicists are at it again. Surprisingly, the “virus” genocide is secondary for these demons. The “carbon” genocide is still the big deal. A bioethicist named Walter Glannon screeches: If benefit, harm and other measures of human well-being pertain to actual but not possible people, then it seems that possible people who will not…
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Reprint from 2014
A few months ago I was focusing on 1975 as an inflection point. It looks like there was another inflection in 2014-2015. Other writers have been trying to catch this change in the same uncertain way. 2014 wasn’t nearly as big as 1946 or 1975, so it doesn’t stand out starkly. Trump wasn’t the cause…
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