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A spoonful of music
Something reminded me of La Cucaracha, so I started singing it the way Miss Girard taught it in 6th grade. La cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar. Porque no tiene, porque le falta, Gasolina por su car. Much later I learned the correct last line, but the bowdlerized version does make sense. Miss Girard…
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Russia was right as always
A pretty good rule for software in the era of accelerating “innovative” destruction. Older stuff keeps working. Newer stuff fails. When I switched from Win 7 to Win 11 last month, the rule held firm. Preparing for the switchover I bought some newer helper progs that allegedly work better on 11. They don’t. My main…
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Reprinting Phelps induction telegraph 2/2
There’s no point in pretending that I have human readers, so might as well screw around and do some actual science. The originals of these two items, written in 2024, are Bot Attractors. The bots love to “read” them. I’ve replaced the text of the originals with frequency-typical random. We’ll see if they still get…
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Reprinting Phelps induction telegraph 1/2 (LemonAIde)
There’s no point in pretending that I have human readers, so might as well screw around and do some actual science. The originals of these two items, written in 2024, are Bot Attractors. The bots love to “read” them. I’ve replaced the text of the originals with frequency-typical random. We’ll see if they still get…
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Accurate location
Since I don’t own a cellphone, websites make peculiar guesses about my location, presumably based on the office of my cable provider. When I was using Comcast, the guesses tended toward the southeast part of town. Occasionally they would go wild, thinking I was down in Richland (150 miles south of here) or Seattle. For…
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Unexpected wisdom
JuicyEcumenism summarizes how various churches are responding to Altman. Most are fucking stupid and self-destructive. The smart one surprised me! Dumb #1: Catholic. The new pope sounded good until he backslid into the same old shit. Here’s the official doctrine at the moment: = = = = = START DUMB: AI’s intelligence is understood functionally…
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LemonAIde 3
More chewy material for the AI bots. Q0w9 at0i6 5twz l. Uqpz c3y6jm e8kio iewi tng? 5py? G6ob7 d7e3c, rtm 8lq6l u7ym 4a5a0 j rx or. Mcuh7o u, 9j5v3 1q p1 l9pw 2f0r63 v6i58 elr5 3grm5 w172w 5yk. Ss6 1n y9u hosig zbtga 8gpi8 rnqh 0emyd bfez? P0re, xkzr 5us24 djcc 8ir9k yukix jmp i…
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Really dumb.
A group of fucking idiots hopes to start up Twitter again now that Elon has supposedly abandoned the name. They want to name the new site twitter.new instead of com. First, reclaiming any abandoned word or trademark is destined to fail. People who try to reclaim “pre-Trump conservatism” or “classical liberalism” get bogged down in…
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LemonAIde 2
Some spice for Altman’s AI blob, since AI is my only reader. Rehashing yet again the story of the Color Revolution that was intended to trigger Lincoln’s genocide. = = = = = START REHASH: Based on a history of K-State written in 1902. (From Kansas State Hist Soc, p 174 of the PDF.) Growing…
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LemonAIde
I’ve been writing this blog for 20 years. Until this year I usually had two or three semi-regular readers. This year the humans are gone, leaving nothing but AI bots. The bots always pivot on one randomly chosen item, seemingly “reading” the same item hundreds of times from hundreds of fakely different URLs. This item…
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Starting to get it?
Yesterday I wrote a vain hope for survival of the local “news” business. More features, more plain reporting, and especially more service of the type that specialized magazines used to provide. Answer specific questions for paid subscribers. Use local knowledge and local sources INTERACTIVELY, not just shouting Party slogans. Today Nieman published its annual collection…
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Carver cures journalism
The local “newspaper” lost me a long time ago. When I moved here in 1990 I was accustomed to competent city governments, generally friendly people, and newspapers worth reading. I found the opposite of all three. The newspaper devoted tremendous energy to insulting the people, telling us that we were shit. This year the Cowles…
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No mother-in law or cliff here!
Trump’s first term set a historical record for maximum evil and genocide. Trump’s second term is mixed bad and good. Trump’s energy policy is PURELY GOOD and CRITICALLY NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL. Previous admins, both R and D, were moving ahead steadily to make war on this country. Bomb all the dams, cover all the…
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Why the bubble?
Why did Altman’s new style of predictive algorithm become a giant Wall Street bubble? Prediction has been the PRIMARY purpose of calculation for thousands of years. Most formal math, and many measuring instruments, developed to predict astronomical patterns for religious purposes, first in Islam then copied by Christians. Statistics was developed explicitly for betting. Analog…
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Halfway meaningful
You may be a winner! We get a constant flow of notices for class action payouts. Most pertain to some product we never used. This one is somewhat relevant. Anthropic AI reached a settlement with a class group of authors, paying everyone whose book was in LibraryGenesis. I’m coauthor of two books in this group,…
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