Tag: Aberree
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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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Does NASA know something?
NASA’s new probe to Venus reminds me of one specific animal. I wonder if the Venusians will agree?
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Cancelling is hardly new
Among the scattered preserves of OTR is one 1954 Mutual news broadcast by Frank Edwards, at KFWB in Los Angeles. Edwards made a point of NOT insulting the audience. He was clearly trying to tell the truth as he saw it, and understood that normal people are also capable of seeing the truth. In discussing […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 1/7
Since I had to switch away from cancellable Blogspot, I’m taking the opportunity to review and condense several long-running topics. Condensing is important. Most topics continued in scattered form for many months, with gradual learning and adjusting as I wrote and studied and animated. “Correction” footnotes often turned into correct understanding. The final result wasn’t […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 2/7
Before 1700 there wasn’t a distinction between astrology and astronomy. Stargazers with or without telescopes were doing serious observation and real math and real geometry to determine God’s will. This purpose was especially dominant in Islam, the most scientific religion. Stargazers were seeking long-term patterns that were reflected in human lives and human civilizations. They […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 3/7
Alphia Hart had a powerful and unique view of copyrights: Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff — and that there may come a time when you’ll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 4/7
Several ‘short takes’ by Hart. = = = = = On vaccination. Note especially that I was writing this item in May of 2019, before vax became the ONLY RELEVANT TOPIC IN THE FUCKING WORLD. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via ZeroHedge: On the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, a cruise ship belonging […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 5/7
Aberree on health foods and health fads, written in Oct 2017. = = = = = START REPRINT: Aberree provides a nice match-point for offbeet thoughts and products. Sometimes the modern version has become fashionable again, sometimes it remains equally dubious, sometimes it has become CRIMETHINK. One product heard on all the second-string talk shows […]
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Reviewing Aberree, part 6/7
Here’s where I did some actual science! First in August 2017: Earlier I had redrawn Volney Mathison’s electropsychometer circuit, which was stolen by Hubbard to create his fake religion. I speculated that it would be more interesting with a zero-center meter instead of Volney’s one-way meter protected by diode. Redrew it again, substituting NPN transistors […]
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