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Still uneasy
Speaking of cancelling reminded me of the university now being organized by the Famous Cancelleds. When I looked at their website in November, it was all future plans, and felt like vaporware. Now there’s one class or seminar firmly scheduled: Our Forbidden Courses summer program invites top students from other universities to join us for…
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Not original
This is hardly a new thought, and it’s not a dramatic or binary thought, but it deserves more emphasis and repetition. We need more GUTS and strength in the middle levels of our structures. Nature is infinitely modular, from mitochondria to cells to tissues to organs to animals to hives to local ecosystems. Every level…
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Dust bowls and rice bowls
A surprising fact from the same Nov 33 issue of Electronics as the microwaved “bun sandwich”: More people than ever before live on the nation’s farms. Not only has the drift of farm boys and girls to the city been stopped, after thirty years of continuous growth of the city population at the expense of…
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The muddlers are worse than the cancellers
Right now there’s a kerfuffle in literary circles over the “cancelling” of an anthology by Norman Mailer. His son put together some previously unpublished essays and offered them to Random House. The official story is that a low-level Woke editor at Random House didn’t like Mailer’s currently unfashionable language. Censorship! No, it’s not censorship. It’s…
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Diathermy for food!
From Electronics magazine, Nov 1933. Note that cooking by HF waves was already familiar in industrial and medical applications. This was the first suggestion of home use for “bun sandwiches”. [Was hamburger trademarked? Apparently not, but cheeseburger was trademarked.] Restaurants were starting to use HF ovens around 1960. I remember trying an electronic hamburger in…
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If you claim
Even in normal times, life is ROUGH. When most of the world is stuck inside a Nazi torture chamber, life is way beyond rough. We don’t need more mountains to climb. We don’t need more psychopathic rule-changes. We don’t need more argumentation. We especially don’t need more Pied Pipers. If you claim to be a…
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Wishful
Heavy snow shoveling and roof raking today makes me wish for one of these…. Note the coal bin next to the office building. Wonder where they got their coal?
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No transitionals
Evo News has yet another article on the failure to find ‘transitional fossils’. Since I’ve been reviewing and condensing old blog into new blog lately, I’ve acquired a feel for the strata of my viewpoints. There aren’t any transitional fossils in this record either. When I crystallize a new understanding, the viewpoint shifts abruptly. A…
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Who made more fake panics?
This is a quickie. I don’t feel like doing serious links and study. In 2014 I did a list debunking the Tocqueville “largesse” crap, with considerably more thought and research. = = = = = A few days ago I laid down a bet about the Bush family. It’s obvious that all the fake panics…
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The importance of Brand
Brand failures are annoying but ultimately self-leveling. This one is especially annoying because the brand is trying to create a campaign and a community. Bari Weiss is specifically running an anti-snowflake and anti-canceller brand. This morning she wrote a perfect example of the cancelling impulse. Some obscure Twitter dude expressed an obnoxious opinion, and now…
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Ambiguous, unambiguous
Holmes was found guilty on four of the 11 available fraud charges. From what Carreyrou has been writing this seems appropriate. The story is a tragedy by the classic literary definition, a potentially decent ruler brought down by one character flaw. Holmes wasn’t a professional criminal and didn’t go into the project with a purely…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 1/7
Since I had to switch away from cancellable Blogspot, I’m taking the opportunity to review and condense several long-running topics. Condensing is important. Most topics continued in scattered form for many months, with gradual learning and adjusting as I wrote and studied and animated. “Correction” footnotes often turned into correct understanding. The final result wasn’t…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 2/7
Before 1700 there wasn’t a distinction between astrology and astronomy. Stargazers with or without telescopes were doing serious observation and real math and real geometry to determine God’s will. This purpose was especially dominant in Islam, the most scientific religion. Stargazers were seeking long-term patterns that were reflected in human lives and human civilizations. They…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 3/7
Alphia Hart had a powerful and unique view of copyrights: Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff — and that there may come a time when you’ll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 4/7
Several ‘short takes’ by Hart. = = = = = On vaccination. Note especially that I was writing this item in May of 2019, before vax became the ONLY RELEVANT TOPIC IN THE FUCKING WORLD. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via ZeroHedge: On the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, a cruise ship belonging…
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