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What’s the inverse?
In previous item I distinguished Tech Talk and Patron Talk, which turned out to be a useful variable. = = = = = START REPRINT: When we see absurd crap floating around the media and ask Do they really think we’re stupid? we’re asking a meaningless question. We don’t count. We aren’t in the loop.…
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Reminds me
It’s fun to watch Room 101 in real time. Yesterday all the official DNC sources were telling Biden to quit. Now they’re predictably forgetting what they said yesterday and returning to the cult. Reminds me of something that happened in 2006. I don’t remember the details, so I’m going to make up some details to…
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Another stepback
Another example of stepping back to the higher-level question. One of the Things I Learned From Others was this clarifier by Dick Morris in the ’90s. Political messages are NOT aimed at voters. They’re aimed at donors or other politicians. When we see absurd crap floating around the media and ask Do they really think…
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Back one level
The best troubleshooting trick is: Step back. Less tersely, if a problem or decision at one level seems to be getting nowhere, go back to the choice above this choice, or the choice before this choice, especially if the next level up is NOT SEEN AS A CHOICE. In programming, when I can’t figure out…
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More weather poetry
The weather bureau is getting poetic again, intentionally or not. Intentionally: The craggily, scraggily luster of shadow and light. In our lives it’s uneven, but she’s blithe In the face of rascals who call her strange. She says: I’m the beauty of differences in our sky. She draws out her tears through the light, to…
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Just for fun
Still toying with the Prospects. Here’s the definite brand associations in the mid 50s when most of those dealer training films were made. The easy correlations are inside the chart, the more ambiguous ones listed separately. Customer GM Ford Chrysler Independents Conservative Prospect Chevy Ford Plymouth Nash Step-up Prospect Pontiac Mercury DeSoto Studie Luxury Prospect…
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Unanswered question
Lately I’ve been using the car dealer castes as clarifiers. Dealers had three categories. Conservative Prospects were interested in simplicity and reliability, uninterested in status. Step-up Prospects were interested in flashy impressive status. Luxury Prospects wanted lasting quality and didn’t care much about flash. The Prospects correlate perfectly with the ancient castes and Orwell’s party…
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Digital sentencing
I randomly made this metaphor in previous item: France, like most countries, is not stuck in hell for an unstoppable 4-year term. Parole is possible. Exploring the metaphor a bit more, I see a definite split in our tendencies. In the last 40 years of total Wall Street control, we’ve removed some paroles and imposed…
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France returns to France (maybe)
Macron’s weird bet is happening today. Like most countries, France can have an election any time the government wants. France is NOT stuck in hell for an automatic unstoppable 4-year sentence. Parole is possible. Macron is a Wall Street alumnus, so he enjoys destroying entire countries for fun and profit. See Soros or Sammy. It…
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Bad deal
Reading more of the AI criticism at MindMatters. Most of the complaints are about the talents and “consciousness” of LLMs, which are utterly irrelevant. Altman WANTS us to be arguing about the degree of creativity and the “consciousness” and the fake threat of grabbing the nuclear button. (Big Data has been on the nuclear button…
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Another diabolical trick
The Heritage Foundation gave us Obamacare, the necessary prerequisite for Trump’s 2020 torture chamber. Before 2020, Obamacare was only a total monopoly for the insurance companies who previously had a partial monopoly. It was a gift to Wall Street. 2020 rested on the INESCAPABLE WALLS keeping every American inside the “medical” system. Without the INESCAPABLE…
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More rebukes by the Supremes
The Supremes made another correct and HELPFUL decision yesterday, which I didn’t notice at the time. They struck down the 9th Circle Of Hell, who used the vicious lie of “rights” to enable bum invasions. Grants Pass in Oregon tried to pass a law restricting the “right” of bums to camp and trespass anywhere they…
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Accuracy isn’t enough
Somebody cited this quote from physicist Feynmann: “We would always like to present things accurately, or at least precisely enough that they will not have to be changed when we learn more.” Precise and accurate are distinct words in metrology, but this still isn’t enough. When we learn more we change our assumptions about what…
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Better distinction
Thinking about publishers vs carriers, ran into a concept that isn’t usually included. Carriers are roads, postal systems, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and the hardware of the Web. A carrier makes money by quantity, not quality. Roads formerly charged tolls by weight, and a few still do. Postal systems charge by weight and volume. Railroads and…
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