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Just like the old
Sam Altman, the evil godfather of OpenAI, has started another evil project which is brazenly dystopian on the surface. No doubt at all about the purpose. Now he’s pretending to be concerned that some “scammers” are hijacking his scam for unlicensed scams. BlockBeats, a Chinese news site, said in tweets posted earlier today that people…
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Aptronym alert
Via DailyMail: Four Las Vegas men have been accused of illicitly winning more than $200,000 in a ‘dice sliding’ scheme at a craps table on the Las Vegas strip. Antcharaporn Kamonlert, Hau Duc Ngo, Max Edward Rappoport, and Oscar Ovidio Rodriguez Alvarado are charged in the case, which stems from an alleged scam at The…
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New phenomenon
This month has been constantly convective, with weird rotating patterns of popup storms every night at my bedtime. I’m losing sleep and getting grumpy and tired and dysfunctional. Tonight’s weird rotation produced an interesting phenomenon near Moses Lake, shown and described by the Weather Bureau. It’s a mini-tornado that doesn’t move and doesn’t appear to…
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There were some Bud errors.
Continuing pointlessly from here, since I seem to be hung up on this subject. There were some badly chosen endorsers before the era of pure profit. Share Value dominated in the 1920s. Companies attracted stock traders instead of customers, just as they did in the more recent Share Value era. Unsurprisingly, Studebaker made the same…
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Don’t be there
Trannies continue entering and “winning” all sorts of events, and the honest competitors keep complaining. Bitching won’t do any good. You’ll only get canceled. Why don’t they just quietly walk out when a known cheater enters? This applies to steroid users and corner-cutters in marathons as well as trannies. As soon as a known cheater…
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Good regardless
The supremes struck down EPA’s overuse of wetlands laws unanimously. No partisan divide. Looking at it naively: Maybe the courts are starting to realize that they’ve been failing at their basic job. Jaded: Now that environmentalism is switching back to a Repooflican movement, the Supremes are able to disapprove. The motivation doesn’t really matter. The…
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NO.
Latest from Kirn: The full story of consciousness can only come from literature. Read the best of the new stuff, not just the old. Don’t get jaded. NO. And FUCK YOU. I tried that for several years in the ’90s and found EXACTLY ZERO worthwhile fiction. EVERY BOOK was designed to destroy the reader’s soul.…
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Duane does Bud
Duane Jones dealt with the Bud Light problem. I cited it before, in a discussion of AI misunderstanding human motives: = = = = = START REPRINT: The Jones agency had produced a successful magazine ad for Heinz ketchup. A painting showed an elegant waitress holding a silver tray with a single bottle of Heinz,…
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The one thing
Duane Jones’s base phrase is Repeats when sampled. A product must first sample the customers. Sample is a transitive verb meaning send or offer a sample of the product. Repeat means that the customer wants to buy more than once after being sampled once. Both steps are necessary to sell the product. So far DeSantis…
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WTF is he thinking 2
Continuing from here. I didn’t waste time listening to the DeSantis announcement. Reading about it is bad enough. He’s doubling down on strategic stupidity by trying to beat Trump at the nastiness game. WRONG BRAND! Trump is the literal killer app of blackmail and filthiness, trained by Roy Cohn. You shouldn’t get into the nasty…
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Reprint on perfection
Reprint from 2011, linked in previous. = = = = = Why do I hate Romney so much? Trying to figure out why I hate Mitt so ferociously, when he’s by no means the only candidate of the Wall Street Mafia. Both Newt and Obama are Goldman slaves, and I don’t hate them in the…
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Speaking of Voltaire
Bari Weiss interviews Tim Scott, another fake Repooflican candidate. Scott is following Reagan and Mitt Romney, claiming that everything is perfect in this most perfect of possible worlds. Only the existence of TAX is imperfect. If we can achieve ZERO TAX for trillionaires, perfection will be total. Weiss does a good job of confronting Scott…
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Kirn vs Cervantes
Latest from Kirn: Privacy, censorship, surveillance, and freedom of expression must be explicit, top-tier issues in the upcoming presidential contest. All candidates must be pressed to take clear stands. First, there’s never any point in saying must. Government does what it wants. Government doesn’t care what peasants think it must do. Writers who put must…
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Hmph.
After going ahead for some distance with my “simplification” of courseware, I realized it loses more than it gains. (I was trying to remove some Twitter-derived JS/CSS code that the previous publisher insisted on including.) The new “simple” product looks OK in desktop mode, but it’s noticeably worse than the old “too fancy” code in…
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Meep meep
On this morning’s walk a cat was chasing a squirrel at HIGH speed, both at full gallop. Squirrel was chirping all the way. Can’t catch me! The cat seemed to be gaining, then the squirrel darted left and up a tree. The cat continued zooming ahead for 20 feet, then stopped and looked around. Huh?…
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