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Paging Duane Jones
I’m rereading Duane Jones’s book. In one chapter he describes a problem with innocently risque material: The Jones agency had produced a successful magazine ad for Heinz ketchup. A painting showed an elegant waitress holding a silver tray with a single bottle of Heinz, standing over a well-dressed businessman at lunch. The headline said: What…
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Oddity about dream locations
I started life in Oklahoma, then spent much of the ’50s and ’60s in Manhattan. Spent the ’70s all over Oklahoma: Enid, Ponca, Norman, OKC, Shawnee, Stillwater. Early ’80s in the KC area, late ’80s at Penn State. Moved to Spokane in 1990, here ever since. My dreams were ALL located in Oklahoma until about…
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Better explanation
Wandering through the toxic sludge of Wilson’s CPI led to a big AHA. Ten years ago I was genuinely shocked to find that we had invaded and occupied Siberia in 1918. We were working with the Japs, who later monetized their experience into an independent invasion in the 1930s. We were also working with the…
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Was it the same in 1918?
The Newberry interview made me curious whether Deepstate was officially involved in art around the time when art turned to shit. I had already seen a lockstep uniformity of propaganda in tech journals and educational journals, but hadn’t been looking in art journals before. Didn’t have to search long! The Committee on Public Information was…
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All Foy, no Pollocks now
Demi Pietchell interviews artist Michael Newberry. The headline mentions money laundering, but the discussion isn’t mainly about money laundering. It’s mainly about the Deepstate psyop of avant-garde art. The later history of the psyop is known, thanks to the Assange leaks of CIA documents. CIA sponsored and granted avant-garde visual shit and “progressive” jazz. The…
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Henry’s Hudson
Vintage.es has some nice pix of Henry with his first 1896 car. The sequence runs from original 1896, with Henry looking dapper in his handlebar mustache, to the late anniversary occasions, with Henry not quite all there. I’ve been focusing on Hudson lately, so one thing stands out immediately in the details. Henry’s first car…
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Speaking of geomagnetic confusion…
Speaking of confusion and vortexes…. I opened the door just now to see what the weather is doing. A dude in a pickup truck cruised by at a normal speed, casually sitting with elbow on the window, IN REVERSE. He didn’t seem to be backing into a driveway or aiming for a trailer, just heading…
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Pits and spoons
Briggs is trying to bring real human experience back into science. In this piece he analyzes claims of telekinesis and speculates on quantum action. He doesn’t reach any conclusions. I think he may be starting from an unproductive angle. Our thinking on these subjects is narrowed down by our intuitive sense that force is a…
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Unusual behavior
FinRegRag, a substack author group, makes the case that this week’s Supreme ruling on NRA is really about debanking. The court unanimously held that the NY bank regulator can’t force banks to steal money from NRA because the regulator doesn’t like NRA. This doesn’t exactly say that banks can’t steal money from a customer they…
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Up to him
Meanwhile, some of the non-independent “journalists” are getting what they deserve at last. The upper management at WaPo has replaced the chief editor with an old-fashioned hardass who is trying to restore the BUSINESS. He told the young idiots: “Nobody is reading your stuff”. Readership has dropped by half. In response they launched a tweetfest…
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Here’s an AI function I’d pay for.
Journalist types are trained to lead with blood and guts. Even after they go independent, the training is unbreakable. They will always lead an article with something icky and awful, even when it’s completely unnecessary for the story or theme. It ruins my day. I’d gladly pay for a browser filter or algorithm helper that…
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Today is
Today is Repeat Day! Today is Repeat Day! Today is Repeat Day! Today is Repeat Day! Today is Repeat Day! Today is Repeat Day! We also need: Awareness Awareness Week to celebrate consciousness. History History Month to celebrate historiographers. Day Day to focus on the precise rotation of the earth. More seriously Day Day should…
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It’s geography
Wes Smith describes a truly weird new “law” from the usual Sorosian and Bloombergian devils. It’s taking hold in the Bloomberg-owned cities and soon will take the Soros-owned states. ‘Tobacco-Free Generation’ allows current smokers to keep buying tobacco, but anyone born after 2000 is illegal. It’s not about age; people born after 2000 will remain…
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Clear picture
Tonight’s radar gives a nice clear definition of mountain rain shadow! Pile up against the Cascades, squeeze out most of the rain, travel over the central plains without raining, then pile up against the Rockies.
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Stoller gets one
Matt Stoller sometimes bears down hard on companies that are just natural monopolies like Google. Gaining most of the customers by providing the best service is honest competition, not predation. This time he’s found a nasty mob-style predator. The feds and some states are suing a software company called RealPage that coordinates rentals among the…
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