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Abstractification
Kirn points out that journalism is now purely involuted, purely about other journalism. The trend started a long time ago. It seemed to coincide with the rebirth of Deepstate in 1946. Before the switch, radio news was realistic, and radio entertainment was empathetic. You could recognize real events in the news, and you could recognize…
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Reprint from March 2018.
I linked this item earlier. It’s worth a complete reprint. Note especially the five-letter word beginning with V. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via CNN demon: When John Dowd quit this week as lead counsel on Trump’s legal team and the President made an effort to recruit “deep state” conspiracy theorist and conservative…
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Demonically clever
The D side of Deepstate wasn’t able to take down DeSantis, for unknown reasons. Perhaps it’s practical politics. Half of Florida is NYC retirees and escapees, who are clearly happy to be living under a SANE governor. The D side didn’t want to offend those NYC types. So they assigned Trump to do the job.…
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Neat graph
The Tonga eruption sent out a shockwave in the air as well as an underwater wave. A meteorologist in Iowa created an animated graph showing the wave passing over the entire US from west to east, based on sudden changes in barometer readings.
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The getter
A sharp comment from Greenwald. The monomaniacal focus on Trump – treating him as the cause of all US evils rather than a symptom, pretending nobody before did what he did – created a sort of magical penance: just oppose Trump and all your past evils are washed away and you’re reborn with a cable…
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Arnades of Christmas Past
Looking through American Radio History as usual, trying for some nostalgic connection with WIBW, my nocturnal input in the ’50s. In one of WIBW’s program guides from ’55, found this intriguing brief item. During the recent snowstorm we had an interesting personality visit our staff. Walter E. Divine, with long hair and beard, is riding…
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Skills last forever, reasons don’t.
Two examples this week of the marvelous persistence of skill memory. 1. I got tired of 3d graphics and detoured into revising and expanding two old Windows programs. Both were originally done in 2002, recompiled but not revised in 2012. I haven’t done any C++ since 2014. The skill returned immediately after starting to read…
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I used to know this
Here’s a fact I recognized a long time ago and then forgot. Antivaxxers are OCD. The Public “Health” demons are also OCD. This explains one peculiar twist in the current fake “debates”. Antivax is a more natural and less contrived outcome of OCD. The provax position was imposed in 2020 by the ALL OR NOTHING…
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Not a conflict
I’ve made a habit of watching all Batya interviews, at least until they turn boring. I know Batya’s story by now, but she has the old-fashioned journalistic knack of interviewing the interviewer. The interviewer’s story is sometimes interesting. This clip with three Bros got boring soon, with the Bros doing the usual Bro things about…
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Narrowing bandwidth works both ways
Still continuing from Kirn’s theme. Self-defense in a digital world seems to require narrow bandwidths and digital responses. Ideally we should be able to shrug off false flags and intentionally crazy media. Some people can do it, but I can’t. I tried it for a long time, and finally decided that I don’t have enough…
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— out of the park.
Continuing on Kirn’s latest hit: Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. Focus on Deafness is setting…
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Kirn hits a home run
Kirn has a way with words! Even the fiercest of our debates now occupy about 1/100th of the spectrum thinkers and writers of earlier times have used while exploring major human questions. Through censorship and timidity, we’ve lost access to bandwidths we don’t even know exist now. Deafness is setting in. This point has been…
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BIG crime is legal
In a semi-serious Facebook thread about a shoplifting arrest, one commenter mentioned that the thieves need to report their illegal loot to the IRS. I couldn’t believe it, so I looked it up. Sure enough, it’s true. I hadn’t seen it before because it’s not in the regular instruction PDFs. I always file Schedule C,…
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This year’s yak-shaving
I tend to do the same things and think the same thoughts at the same time each year, without trying. Keeping a daily journal or worklog helps to spot these patterns. Right now I’m having fun shaving a yak. I started working on a 3d animatable waterfall spectrogram, extending the ‘live sine waves’ seen here.…
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Contradictory? Not quite.
In the last couple days I’ve been writing and reprinting two opposite approaches. 1. Surrender immediately! 2. Mid-level powers should try to assert their power! Not really contradictory, just two different categories of people and nations. Powerless people should avoid exciting psychopaths into a killing frenzy. People with some power should use it carefully. DeSantis…
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