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Breaking from the cult
New Scientist mag continues to break away from current fashions required for tenure and grants. In this article they point out a deal-breaking problem with AI crap when used for medical purposes. Computers have been visually reading text for a LONG time. For instance, the Post Office was routinely using OCR in the 1970s. So…
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Metrology Day 2025
Today is Metrology Day, so I’ll maintain my long tradition. = = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 1 = = = = = This year I’m focusing on the medieval way of thinking as illuminated by Sherri Olson. Medieval villages embodied Natural Law. = = = = = REVIEWING: The Almighty has created this…
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Bravo TVA!!!
TVA was the New Deal’s prime mover in rural electrification. The related REA was starting to work toward small nuclear reactors in 1954! Now TVA is finally making good on the old promise. = = = = = START QUOTE: The nation’s largest public power company, the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced Tuesday it submitted a…
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Blog rule
One of my firm blog rules: When I see a Crosley or a Bantam I have to post it! From Billboard mag in 1948, Tower Records was using a pretty girl in a Crosley as a sales ambassador. Leads to another random thought. GM is always considered the Styling Leader. In fact it was the…
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Random stupid mathy thought
Noticed a crash report in Spokane News: South Sullivan and South Ball Dr, Vehicle Collision Reported. Inevitably some smartass will comment: South and South can’t intersect! Well, the smartass is wrong. Street geometry is sometimes euclidean and sometimes elliptic. Parallel streets often intersect. Here’s the intersection mentioned, way out in the East Valley. Ball is…
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Foy man
An item in the Post Office section of Reddit: = = = = = START QUOTE: The LLV is actually pretty fun. It’s one of my favorite parts of this job. It’s pretty interesting driving a vehicle that’s older than me – especially in 2025. I was born in ’91 and the ones I use…
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No horseshoes, no butterflies
Seems like the Chemtrail people are proliferating, at least in the places I’m reading. RFK’s Deepstate-sponsored antivax movement is helping them. Chemtrail fans and Global Warming fans are both wrong in the SAME way, not opposite ways. It’s not the supposed ‘horseshoe’ effect. Both are attributing vast permanent natural patterns to a TINY change in…
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How soon they forget
Newspapers are mad that Google’s new AI has stopped linking to them, because Google links were a main source of subscribers. Before the web, papers didn’t rely on the Yellow Pages to gain subscribers. They CERTAINLY didn’t rely on competing papers! The Bugle didn’t wait for the Gazette to mention it. Newspapers sold their own…
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Who’s learning, who’s not
Canada has learned and started doing the right thing. New Scientist mag has learned and at least stopped doing destructive things. Rome has learned and started LEADING the revolution in the BEST direction. Democrats and “journalists” haven’t shown the slightest sign of awareness or intelligence. Least surprising of all, Hollywood is doubling down on the…
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Odd dream reference
Had a positive dream this morning featuring a character known as “1990s activist Anna Stan”. That was her full name, like Bearded Clarinetist Acker Bilk. Decided to see if there really was such a character. There was an Anna Stan (also spelled Sten). The dream character looked like her. She was a Russian actress with…
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Good woke, reprinted
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2019: This academic movement is more important and more valid than it sounds. First, how it sounds: = = = = = START QUOTE: Since apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa’s universities have struggled to transform themselves, leading to escalating student protests…
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Ve haff vays…
Youtube has come up with a new way to use AI for punishment. I’m noticing it in some of the car sales film channels. When you watch the clip online it comes through normally. But when you download it, the sound has been replaced by an AI-generated GERMAN version. It’s a perfect dub. These old…
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Antonym
I noticed a package of chocolate S’Mores in the grocery store. What about a S’Less? Spinach Cookies. Artichoke Chips. Limburger burger. Liver Krispies. Blood Pudding. Granola Bars. Oops, some of those aren’t fictional. Old-fashioned “health food” was nothing but S’Lesses. Not the best way to sell a basically good thing.
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General Delivery
Our idiot “mayor” and grotesque brainless “council” have passed a new “law” telling businesses to avoid asking for addresses on new employees. Supposedly this will make it easier to hire the homeless. I doubt it. First reaction: WOKE SHIT! Second reaction: Well, like much of the woke shit in education, this is actually a return…
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Daily random pissoff
Random pissoff about “cybersecurity”. In the computer world, because of “cybersecurity”, you have to keep turning on your password every time the computer decides to clear its history. You can’t access a PAID subscription without going through security measures like TSA scanning at the airport or courthouse. In the real world a subscription keeps going…
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