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CompactNN?
What the fuck is going on here? Is the editor asleep, or is the magazine switching sides? Compact Mag exists to defend populism in various forms. This article belongs in NYTimes or CNN. It stoutly defends the need for Deepstate’s worst abuses, and weirdly assumes that the world is still in 1960. The first definition…
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Continuing on grammar…
Continuing from grammar and utility. Before the holocaust I was exploring this subject in detail, noticing that languages without noun cases correlated strongly with Sorosian destruction. The holocaust derailed me; maybe I can get back on track. In yesterday’s piece I mentioned but didn’t emphasize the TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS, which are the key to real civilization.…
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Unusually good question
Somebody on substack asked a sharp question. Would a new draft start a civil war? Normally I ignore threats of a civil war. Side R expects Side D to start a civil war and vice versa. This specific question might be valid. Our warmakers have been able to run wild since 1975 because there’s no…
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Back to Magic Lanterns 2
Last week I returned to the subject of Magic Lanterns, the intersection of science and entertainment. Now I’m imagining another development of magic lantern tech that was easily possible in the era of the lanterns. Fluidic analog computers came along in the 1930s, AFTER electronic analog computers. This sequence was common. Many machines could have…
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Maybe it was….
Stoller finally figures out that Trump is a fraud. SOME OF US figured it out a lot sooner. After his inauguration I kept waiting for the promised action, saw a couple of changes that looked good, but no steady movement. If you want to reform an organization, you need to hit hard in the first…
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Reprint on utility and grammar
Reprint from 2021, just because I want to bring it back to the foreground. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research…
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Probably deleted enough
If I’m going to believe the emails, my Account SiriusXM and my Account Netflix have been deleted several thousand times. They get deleted three or four times each day. Seems like they should be pretty thoroughly wiped out by now, especially since never had I an Account Netflix or an Account SiriusXM in the place…
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Answering a different question
One phrase in Henry Wallace’s speech on the Red Menace wants more explanation. He called Herbert Hoover the Engineer of the Great Depression, and observed that Hoover was part of the cabal who were engineering the permanent Red Menace in 1948. Conventional history says that Hoover was a ‘fall guy’ for Wall Street, accidentally allowing…
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Ahem
Via Reuters: The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Ahem. SOME OF US have been trying to point out that anti-vax has all the signs of an organized Agent Provocateur.…
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Alien non-empathy
The auto companies agreed on the definition of the Conservative Prospect. He likes economy and simplicity and plain things. Mormon Romney understood the type personally, so Rambler training films had an empathetic attitude. The other companies saw the Conservative Prospect as an inferior species, to be tolerated when necessary to meet a sales quota. Salesmen…
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TIL
Today I Learned. I’ve lived in this house for exactly 33 years as of yesterday, and never realized until just now that the city sewer treatment plant is only 3000 feet away as the crow flies. That’s closer than Safeway and shorter than some of my regular walks. I always knew the plant was in…
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The sandwich standard
I should tack this fact onto the list of important things I learned from others. Most of these learnings happened between 2012 and 2017, after I threw away the TV. An 1880s British book on banking gave a simple statistic that altered my view of how money works. The statistic: Earlier I summarized an American…
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The reality check test
I listen to writers who agree with reality at points where I can check. Mattingly always fits at the points I can check, so I listen to him on other matters. In this podcast he’s discussing the (admittedly small) turmoil inside the Southern Baptists. Above all Baptists are NOT hierarchical. They disagree on many things…
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The Bush World Order is done.
Since 1974 Saudi has been the guiding star of our world policy and our oil-based world economy. Our wars against Iraq and Persia and Syria and Libya were fought on behalf of Saudi. Saudi just left the venue. Saudi has been sliding toward the sane side for a few years, making more deals with Russia…
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ID question
In human invention, a package tough enough to protect its contents is always designed along with the tool to open it. The ID types call it irreducible complexity, but I’d rather call it can’t have one without the other. Locks and keys. Corks and corkscrews. Cans and can openers. Staples and staple removers. Walnuts and…
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