Tag: Entertainment
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Launderette
Protos writes up a peculiar story about a tiny bank in a Palouse town that ended up as a node in Bankman-Fried’s crime syndicate. Farmington is a typical leftover small town between Spokane and Pullman. It briefly flourished as a rail terminal, then faded down to the magic number of 150. The Farmington Bank remained…
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More wasted energy
Rehashing from a few weeks ago: = = = = = START REHASH: What the world needs now is NOT love, sweet or otherwise. The real tragedy of the bitcoin/NFT/DAO crap is identical to the real tragedy of the hippie crap. Both were motivated by youthful idealism, and both ruthlessly exploited the idealism to gain…
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Problem solved!
Our noble leaders are warning us to be VEEEEEEEEEEEERY PATIENT, because it takes a VEEEEEEEEERY LONG TIME to count votes. Obviously we need a technical fix. Polistra has a fresh Innovative Disruptive idea! We need a machine that works something like an abacus, except a whole lot faster. She realizes that this is WAY beyond…
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Introview squared!
A few months ago I coined the word introview for an interview conducted by an introvert. Here we have a double introview! Lots of real Shannon information, real news that breaks up standard ideas. Even though I’m a solid introvert, a double exposure of non-eye-contactors in a show business situation is disconcerting and hard to…
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High-yield CD
The nocoiners at Reddit tend to know the ins and outs of real markets. One of them notes that Binance is a major partner in Elon’s purchase of Twitter. Binance is a sort of bridge between the allegedly “traditional” finance establishment and the allegedly “unorthodox” bitcoin world. This will add spice to Deepstate’s fake fight.…
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Not nice but funny as hell
The usual Spokane daily crap, followed by the usual nice responses, and then……
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Kirn misses it
Here he balances out yesterday’s precise hit! We’re in what I’d term the “taste destruction” phase of cultural change. It’s similar to what food co’s did once to wean us off good food and prepare us for products like Wonder Bread, only it involves language, images, and music. You’ll accept less once you forget there…
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Taking on water
In the ’47-65 period when disc UFOs were reported everywhere, several people saw a disc hovering over a lake or pond, siphoning or pumping large quantities of water. This wouldn’t make sense for an electric motor or even a small nuclear plant. Our long-distance satellites have mini nuke reactors, and they don’t need water. Taking…
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Politics and science
Continuing to notice the peculiar tone of political emails. The word devastate seems to be at the top of the choice stack. It can be used internally: “We’re devastated!” The reader is supposed to empathize and throw money at the candidate to rescue him from devastation. It can be used externally: “Trump is DEVASTATED!” The…
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Deepfake worries again
MindMatters is worrying about deepfakes again. While AI deepfakes have political ramifications (digitally cloning world leaders, creating false news, etc), the actual human qualities of our lived experience may grow ever dimmer in lieu of the metaverse and its deepfake minions. If I can choose my own virtual world, the actual created order loses its…
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Stacks, not Savannahs
Sharp observation from Gary Smith, discussing the perils of letting stats lead you around by the nose: Our distant ancestors benefitted from noticing that elephants could lead them to water and that wildebeest stampedes might warn them of predators. The best pattern spotters were more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on their pattern-recognition skills…
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Now we know what happened!
EnidBuzz asked about your favorite cereal as a kid. No hard answers this time, just one surprise. Many people liked Quaker’s Quisp. It came along after I was more or less grown up and skipping breakfast, so I never heard of it. Maybe this is the answer to the mysterious disappearance of the disc-type UFOs…
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Big news for the renaissance
Avi Loeb has achieved solid crowdfunding for his project to investigate a meteorite. He considers this particular rock found in New Guinea to be a possible UFO. This is a BIG development toward the PROPER functioning of science. Since 1946 (of course) the military has sucked up all potential UFOs and all information about the…
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Cheaters
Just for fun and weirdness, a couple of items about computers and cheating. = = = = = Via MindMatters, AI is not very good at catching cheaters, but it’s also not very good at cheating. Detecting cheating, at any level of education, is a bit of a cat-and-mouse game. AI, far from being a…
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Grandma was more right than she knew
Common wisdom was right about nearly everything before “science” and “democracy” and “philosophy” turned wisdom into genocide and torture. Some branches of science are accidentally recovering old wisdom in recent years, while other branches (like “social” “science” and public “health”) are zooming out beyond the event horizon of infinite satanic lunacy. = = = =…
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