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Refreshing realism
After the Assange hall of mirrors it’s refreshing to see a proposal from a hardass realist who recognizes that the devil doesn’t have morals. In this case the devil is Sam Altman. Gioia lays out a strategy for music publishers to handle Altman. Altman is an incurable and immovable and unlearnable devil, but the human…
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Who died?
Suddenly Assange is completely free after 15 years of Kafka. I lost interest in Assange a long time ago; he seemed to be playing a game that didn’t make sense for a man who wanted to stay free. The prosecution is unquestionably and infinitely evil, but I’m not sure about the other side. Assange wasn’t…
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That was fast.
Last week I wondered: The final divorce of Saudi from the Bush house may cause a shift in this pattern. Up to now we’ve been operating as a general contractor for Saudi, destroying every country that threatened to compete. Saudi has now decisively moved into Russia’s house. Will we finally attack Saudi in PROPER response…
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Today is…
Today is Museum Comes To Life Day, and it lived up to its name. I haven’t seen a “virus” ballgag in the wild for several months. The usual gothy suspects have finally given up the fashion. Today on the bus I saw a middle-aged couple, both overdressed and out of style, both wearing outsized glasses…
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England still lives.
Kirn also gets in a well-aimed dig at the Gaian fuckheads vandalizing Stonehenge. They are screwing with the wrong pagan gods — their own! How stupid is that? They’ve unleashed the bards and leprechauns on themselves. Looking at the clip of the vandalism, I’m hugely impressed by the instant response of normal people. As soon…
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AskedAnswered
Haven’t seen one of these in a while. The business of building AI centers IS why it’s so hard to build ANYTHING ELSE in America. When construction serves the needs of Altman or Fink or Zuck, it gets built fast and easy, no permits, no litigation. Anything else needs 20 years of permitting and licensing…
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The Sonnabend solution
Thinking about Hudson led to a random thought about governments. Studebaker and Packard made plenty of identifiable constant mistakes, obvious to outsiders at the time, not just in hindsight. Above all Studie overpaid shareholders and underpaid factories and research. Packard kept trying to compete in luxury cars after Cadillac unquestionably owned the niche, and outsourced…
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Probably right
Earlier I noticed that the Trump cult’s email spam resembled the incessant calls from a moody menopausal ex-wife. Do you still love me? Why haven’t you responded? I would never expect this from YOU! Kirn has noticed the same thing, describing it from a different angle: A lot of the political $$$ solicitations I’m getting…
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Revelation, not reveal
Looking up something about analog computers, ran into this NASA publication on the history of fly-by-wire. The really interesting part of the book is NOT the computing part; it’s the basic history of flying with wings. Each profession and skill has its own internal history and base assumptions, which are rarely understood by outsiders. Sometimes…
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Relative prospects
Expanding on cars vs religion. Major food companies always offer a wide variety of subtypes within their one specialty. Each company offers at least three types of soup or pickles or cheese or wine, often hundreds. As I noted last week, successful car companies did the same. One size fits all = bankruptcy. Religions are…
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Now they’re Hudson
Religion Unplugged writes about the growing pains of the Anglican schism. ACNA split off 15 years ago, and has grown mostly by attracting people from non-liturgical churches who were hungry for liturgy but didn’t want the lunacy that comes with the ‘mainline’ package. ACNA didn’t anticipate the intake, so its bylaws were written to satisfy…
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DuchampGPT
Altman flipped the purpose of computing. Computers started out as mass-produced bookkeeping. Hollerith’s counter mechanized and regularized the process of organizing and sorting census entries, which had grown beyond the ability of human clerks to handle. The switch to mass production was easily understood. Other manufacturing processes were being automated at that time with great…
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Why is that wrong?
Rumble is suing Google for showing Google’s own products first in searches. When you look for maps, Google Maps is first. When you look for financial advice, Google Finance is first. Why is that wrong? Advertising is normal and natural, and advertising your own product is just logical. Why would Google want to boost its…
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Lawyers understand Desistance
Via Protos, with the usual caution, a BEAUTIFUL lesson on why you should always hire a lawyer. Logan Paul, like Craig Wright, is a professional criminal and professional suer. A bitcoin developer made the mistake of working with Paul on a fraudulent (redundant) bitcoin project. The project failed like everything in the bitcoin world… =…
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Misread
Someone on substack showed a public service ad for an EU “counterterrorism” task force. The big headline is PREVENT TERRORIST ATTACKS! My old eyes saw it as PREVENT THEORIST ATTACKS! which makes more sense. The “terrorists” we’re supposed to prevent are developed and created by the real terrorists, the THEORISTS of Deepstate. The real terrorists…
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