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Theories
This is what happens when you get involved in theories and theologies and philosophies. Religion Unplugged writes about a survey of Army chaplains, revealing a peculiar and outright evil function served by the chaplains. The survey was dealing with the perceived morality or legitimacy of software-driven drone warfare. It turns out that chaplains ADVISE GENERALS…
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Are they starting to learn?
Somebody on Substack noted, with figures to prove it, that NYTimes is quickly becoming more of a gaming company than a “news” company. Fits with something I’ve seen lately. NYTimes occasionally sends me email spam. Most of it was the usual FUCK TRUMP! PEASANTS ARE HORRIBLE! In recent months the usual is gone, and the…
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Riddle
Before 2020 flipped the script, fake doctors used to be called quacks. Q: What do you call fake freedom fighters? A: Quacks. = = = = = Via Protos, with caution as usual: Bing’s search engine went down for most of yesterday, and Google later snarkily thanked them for the added business. The article includes…
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Yeah, I was fooled too.
Saagar apologizes for falling into a fake news story that Red Lobster was bankrupted by its own stupid mistake. I fell for the story too, so I also apologize! It turns out to be a textbook LBO crime. The private equity thief finds a company in trouble, offers it a fake cash infusion in exchange…
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It’s still feedback
Yesterday I bitched that the government totally lacks negative feedback. The people want the EXACT OPPOSITE of what government is doing on all issues. If a control input from the people was connected, government actions would flip back and forth for a while, then settle down into an equilibrium as popular satisfaction calmed down the…
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Better name
Responsible people are quite properly worrying about AI’s habit of hallucinating. We’d have a clearer conversation if we called it dreaming. Everyone dreams. The process is the same whether it happens in sleep or drug-induced haze or ChatGPT. A system assembles facts and images and sensations in ways that don’t occur in real life. We’re…
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This is crazy.
Via Protos: A British court has sentenced a whistleblower to 10 months in prison for exposing Craig Wright’s forgery. A few days earlier, a British court convicted Wright of forgery, partly using the documents found by the British whistleblower. He also exposed some chicanery in a German bitcoin gang named nChain. Caution: Protos sometimes gets…
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When Harry met Herbie
Another pretty good article from Ryan Zickgraf at Compact. He’s making the case that some unions were against Vietnam while unions are not joining the current antiwar movement. I won’t argue with the few cases he cites, but I was there at the time and we certainly didn’t feel any support from the working class.…
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Would be a good business!
One of the news aggregators mentioned that Uber is tamping down fake rumors about an Uber ‘walking buddy’ program. Uber isn’t doing it, but somebody should! It would be a good business, especially in big cities. We have dog walkers, why not person walkers? Extroverts would walk more if they had company, but can’t find…
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Gap
I wanted to reread Duane Jones’s wonderful little book. I thought it was in the top shelf of my ‘actively used’ bookcase, but it’s not there. Started looking through other areas. Finally looked through a little stack of magazines in a basket next to the dining table. When a magazine or catalog comes in, it…
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Who fucking cares?
Via MindMatters, math profs are trying to use ChatGPT to disprove theoretical conjectures. So fucking what? Mathematical conjectures and theorems are meaningless noise, like the pro wrestling of “congress”. Theorems never solve real problems. A different sort of theory (not same as theorem) arises from real experimenters solving real problems, and occasionally provides a useful…
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Excellent general advice.
Biden: And by the way, I say to every young man looking to get married – marry into a family of five or more daughters. I did, my wife is the oldest of five sisters. You know why? One of them will always love you. Not the same one. I don’t know about the specific…
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The answer
Ryan Grim seems like a plain vanilla commentator, sort of vaguely Libertarian but not unusually incisive. In this clip he shows a UNIQUE GRASP OF REALITY. No other public speaker has ever caught this basic fact of life. He’s talking about an international survey asking people if they feel their country has democracy. In US…
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My old question
Wolf posted his latest update on housing prices. Nothing new there. The usual combination of Larry Fink evading taxes and Chinese billionaires evading taxes. Just the US economy operating as intended for the benefit of all Americans. (All Americans = Larry Fink and Chinese billionaires.) One commenter hit a new and previously unasked question: When…
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Normal stage
MindMatters notes a splitup in Satan Altman’s company. Several top execs are leaving all at once. There’s no point in speculating about the detailed reasons for the split, which is a typical stage in a fast-growing company with a fanatical founder. At some point the fanatical founder needs to PURIFY his execs, and the less…
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