Tag: Aberree
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IOT as seen from 1955
I was looking back through my Aberree theme to find something. Didn’t find it, but ran across this 2017 piece. Nothing has changed since then. = = = = = START REPRINT: Actually Musk doesn’t believe his negative comments about AI; he’s just talking the price down to corner the market. Nevertheless, he’s famous for…
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Copyright comprehension
Jectoons understands the copyright problem, and he practices what he preaches by specifying public domain. He wants to have a chance of leaving a legacy.
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Those three ancient words again
Continuing from the ‘irrelevant’ part of previous item, and tying it back to the more relevant discussion of the three traditional segments of Intellectual Property. = = = = = START REHASH: Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head for no reason. I realized that I didn’t know its exact meaning so…
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Ancient words
Kirn points out yet another reason why you shouldn’t copyright your work if you want to leave a legacy. I hadn’t thought about this part of the problem. He shows parallel passages from Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Witches’, with the latest edition bowdlerized by Woke idiocy. Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head…
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Unrealistic
TheFederalist makes a somewhat valid point: In a world where the left has achieved near-total dominance of the cultural space, finding an openly conservative artist can feel like tracking down an endangered species. Unfortunately, like poachers in the jungle, the left is on the hunt. While leftist artists can openly spew their bile for the…
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Clarifying thought
Not related to anything current, just a clarifying thought, a new angle on a familiar subject. One of my Thiel Questions is: If you want to leave a legacy, don’t copyright your work. This runs counter to everything you normally read about copyright. Clarifier: Everything you normally read is based on the faulty assumption that…
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Long-lasting ladies
NYC media have never REMOTELY quasi-micro-pico-understood the rest of the country. NYC constantly hammers the myth of a Man’s World. Pure nonsense. The northeast is MUCH more of a Man’s World. When I moved to Pennsylvania in the ’80s, I was genuinely shocked by the domesticity of women in that part of the country. In…
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Age reversal
This morning I took a peek at Renderosity, my old graphics stomping grounds. Is there a new version of Poser that I can continue to reject? Apparently not. The first discussion I saw was this discovery of AI. Almost everyone seemed to be completely gobsmacked by text-to-art AI websites. One of the older guys was…
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More Zirn Zibbles
Kirn is praising the Beats again: All the worst bland utopian conformist “scientific” aspects of 1950s culture which the Beat writers eloquently reviled and Hollywood and popular music then spent decades satirizing are present again today at stultifying levels. But where are the peers of those writers? Absent. More than a quibble again. The premise…
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Harmless hooey
According to the date guide, today is Skeptics Day. Hmm. Is that right? I looked it up and first found sources saying that the real Skeptics Day is Jan 13. Hmm. Is that right? Other sources say the real Skeptics Day is Oct 13. Hmm. Is that right? The fact turns out to be more…
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Putting UFOs onto the timeline
Two very different men with the same initials. = = = = = Alphia Hart mentioned the UFO craze often, and not only because it was a kindred unorthodox spirit. Hart’s specific mission was debunking the Hubbard cult, which is based on a wild story about alien contacts. Now that I know some of the…
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It’s all about caste
Headline at MindMatters: Unexplained — Maybe Unexplainable — Numbers Control the Universe In Carl Sagan’s Contact, the extraterrestrials embedded a message in the irrational number pi (the circumference of a circle divided by its radius). But some other numbers are critical to the structure of our universe too — and why they are critical does…
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Outlaw intellectuals
Kirn’s latest pithy point: My studied belief is that America’s greatest wealth is its oddballs, weirdos, seers, compulsives & autodidacts. They’ve transformed science, business, religion & the arts. Making more space, not less, for nonconformity & improvisation is the way of prosperous peaceful flourishing. This wasn’t true of the whole country, and it’s no longer…
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Unsurprisingly
After writing about Frank Edwards, the newscaster who found his niche in UFOlogy, I started looking for related material. Surprisingly, Archive.org has an organized collection of the material, curated by Wendy Connors in the ’90s. There’s a huge amount of material: the UFO Hotline, news broadcasts, private interviews with Hynek and others, comedies that happened…
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