Tag: Equipoise
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Pay structure
In school we “learned” a list of alleged propaganda methods. None of them were real. The list itself was propaganda to distract us from real propaganda. One effective REAL method is distorting verb aspect, treating a permanent or habitual process as something new and unknown. Weather becomes CLIMATE EMERGENCY! Flu season becomes VIRUS PLAGUE! Corruption…
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Fake surprise as always
Half of what passes for “news” is fake surprise. Propagandists love to attribute a permanent condition like weather or corruption to a “surprising” “unprecedented” action by Horrible Wrong Party. Nice example. Wired warns us that Instagram has “suddenly” decided to chew up your photos in AI without permission. Nonsense. This has ALWAYS been the basic…
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Sweet and sour largesse
Tech demons are hammering us with Sweet and Sour sides of an argument. The Sour tech demons, aided by Philosopher MacAskill, tell us straight out that we must lose our jobs and die for the good of future generations. We must be exterminated because we are non-self-aware inanimate objects. After we have been disinfected from…
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Suits dilute
Via Courthouse News: Some ambulance-chasing lawyers are building a class action suit against the WaPo. Not for anything remotely related to 50 years of bias. Nope, they’re suing because the WaPo charges different prices for subscriptions at different times. What’s wrong with charging different prices? That’s BUSINESS. Newspapers are not utilities like water and electric…
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Pride and skill
Unions are a NECESSARY feedback system in capitalism. A union is a bank for human skills, exerting bullypower against the Share Value banks. We lost unions 40 years ago along with all the other countervectors. UNLIKE the other losses, I can’t blame Wall Street. Industrial unions fouled their own nests by helping Wall Street to…
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Good law, still missing a big point
Both parts of the NY state legislature have passed a clear and well-written bill to constrain Altman. The human side was crafted by the writers and actors unions, who know what they’re talking about. The technical side also shows unusual clarity, which makes me curious about the source of the expertise. On the human side:…
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Goddamn slimy
I rarely take the same side as CNN. I always take the side of Equipoise, paying for value. In this case CNN is on the right side, and the AI monster is pulling a sneaky slimy trick. CNN is suing Perplexity for stealing its copyrights. CNN tried to set up a licensing deal, which is…
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A nice helper for Windows shit
One of the nastiest obstructions introduced by Microsoft in recent years is the totally individualized file menu. EVERY SINGLE FUCKING FOLDER gets its own style of viewing. You have to stop and alter EVERY SINGLE FUCKING FOLDER to make it readable. There is a hugely difficult and tricky way to make SOME of them usable.…
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Harding reprint
Trying to recharge my courage after a hard week. Two windstorms and a snowstorm, lost sleep, no progress on a tangled courseware problem. Reprinted from March 2020, Harding’s commentary on the condition of the world in 1920. Still magnificent. Audio and transcript are here. = = = = = START MAGNIFICENT SPEECH: My countrymen, there…
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Hardass for hardass
It’s easy to tell when a new stronger batch of fentanyl comes along. The overdose deaths suddenly spike. I’m getting the same spiky feel from the AI addicts. They seem to be smoking a batch that tells them to go hardass, to smash the remaining skeptics and heretics. Altman’s distribution chain is much more instant…
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Music the time beguileth
Today’s dream included this madrigal, offering heavenly praises to a nasty ugly warmaking headchopping psychopath faghag named Elizabeth. We have a duty to balance the equation. Nasty times require divine creation. Repeating for the 100000000000000000th time: “Resisting” a psychopath makes him stronger. If you want to make him weaker, provide a BETTER alternative. Use your…
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LemonAIde 2
Some spice for Altman’s AI blob, since AI is my only reader. Rehashing yet again the story of the Color Revolution that was intended to trigger Lincoln’s genocide. = = = = = START REHASH: Based on a history of K-State written in 1902. (From Kansas State Hist Soc, p 174 of the PDF.) Growing…
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Halfway meaningful
You may be a winner! We get a constant flow of notices for class action payouts. Most pertain to some product we never used. This one is somewhat relevant. Anthropic AI reached a settlement with a class group of authors, paying everyone whose book was in LibraryGenesis. I’m coauthor of two books in this group,…
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Digital mother-in-law / Analog Cadillac
This item in NewScientist slams my Good News vs Bad News nerves. Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use. The bad news: New technology lets burglars steal your intellectual property 1000 times faster! The good news: Modern technologists are FINALLY recognizing the value of analog computers after totally ignoring and…
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150 year sync
The mint finally stopped making pennies but didn’t remove pennies from legal tender. It makes sense to stop making cents. Inflation gradually wears down the smaller divisions. It’s safe to assume that stores will make all prices end in 0 or 5 to avoid rounding. Or maybe not? I looked up the previous ‘weardown’ when…
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