Tag: Carver
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Close to home
Tired of the AI shit, which is going to happen no matter what the peasants think. Like 2020, nobody on any side is telling the truth. Carver says LOOK ABOUT YOU. TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE. Look about you: I could look at the VA hospital from my house if trees weren’t…
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Fair and DOESN’T miss anything
Following on previous about sugar and spice. Another Nieman item. Bloomberg and DailyMail are trying something new which SHOULD have been old. They recognize that social media is taking care of basic information for free. They’re finally grasping the two-way obligation of SERVICE in exchange for money. = = = = = START QUOTE: Boyce…
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Wiggle and watch
Via RealClear, a small Vermont college was closed for the usual reasons, and now a Brand New Unprecedented Innovative Foundation is taking over the campus for a wildly experimental sci-fi approach to education. = = = = = START QUOTE: Many renovations are complete, including the transformation of one building into shop rooms full of…
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Zinger
I haven’t been reading MindMatters for a long time. Busy with work, health troubles, didn’t see a lot of interesting stuff there. Checked again today. Denyse O’Leary has written a world-class zinger. She knocks out Ethan Siegel, a world-class contemptuous asshole, and by extension all the academicians, politicians and journalists who play the same obnoxious…
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This is SMART.
I enjoy seeing people use what they have. Too often businesses will bet on billion-dollar expansions or billion-dollar subsidies to accomplish something that they shouldn’t be doing in the first place. Via Nieman, newspapers and magazines have been abandoning book reviews for 20 years, LONG before Trump or AI. Most complainers want to get rid…
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Pleasant surprise
Interesting article on the recent deplaneting of Pluto. In 2006 a group of official assholes decided for no obvious reason to change the definition. Since then, science writers have automatically forgotten Pluto, rubbing it in by headlining new discoveries of a ninth planet. GODDAMN IT, WE ALREADY HAVE A NINTH PLANET, AND IT’S CALLED PLUTO.…
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Big difference
An article by Ronald Bailey in Reason describes a study done in Europe. = = = = = START QUOTE: Scenario: Maria and Peter are eating dinner. Peter asks Maria whether Tom is at the party that they intend to go to after dinner. Maria answers that Tom is at the party. After all, Tom…
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Today is Carver Day!
Rehashed and revised from this 2014 item on his 150th birthday. = = = = = START REHASH: By most calculations, George Carver was born in January 1864 near Joplin. He was born in the last year of official slavery to a mother owned by a German farmer named Moses Carver. Soon after George was…
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Booker T said it best
China is the stork. Citing Aesop: = = = = = START FABLE: The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The…
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Carver and AI
Seen in the anti-AI department of Substack: = = = = = START QUOTE: When everyone has an advantage, it is no longer an advantage. When everyone can learn and create anything at the click of a button, your advantage comes from slowing down, focusing on your craft, doing the right things manually, and acquiring…
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Starting to get it?
Yesterday I wrote a vain hope for survival of the local “news” business. More features, more plain reporting, and especially more service of the type that specialized magazines used to provide. Answer specific questions for paid subscribers. Use local knowledge and local sources INTERACTIVELY, not just shouting Party slogans. Today Nieman published its annual collection…
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Carver cures journalism
The local “newspaper” lost me a long time ago. When I moved here in 1990 I was accustomed to competent city governments, generally friendly people, and newspapers worth reading. I found the opposite of all three. The newspaper devoted tremendous energy to insulting the people, telling us that we were shit. This year the Cowles…
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Miniature orrery
Here’s a rare and wondrous example of science as Carver defined it. Look closely at the THINGS THAT ARE HERE. Notice something new. Let it talk to you. Don’t look at abstractions in your own mind, or abstractions in the religious beliefs of your funding agency. Abstractions are not THINGS and they are not HERE.…
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For the 1000000000000000000th time
Random thought on my endlessly repeated theme. I was writing this as a comment elsewhere, then decided to write it here instead. The bolded part seems like a new way of phrasing the WINNING combination. None of our idiot politicians can REMEMBER their own best example, the most electable president in history, the only president…
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Foy and 1906
The Soviet auto podcaster did a noble tribute to the Renault taxis that helped to win a crucial battle in WW1. These Renaults were the standard Paris taxi at that time. From airplane surveillance, army commanders realized they had an opportunity to defeat a Kraut attack on Paris if they could move troops fast enough…
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