Tag: Equipoise
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Tidegauge
This gadget caught my attention as an example of equipoise in measurement. The chain has a float at one end and a weight at the other. As tide rises, the float goes up and the weight goes down. The pulley drives a sliding pencil on a graph recorder. Far view, in my Electric Village scene,…
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Bye, Full Circle.
Back in October I started using a delivery service for organic food. Gradually I found that I was wasting more than eating. Cooking needs to be limited in hot weather, and fresh food takes more cooking time. Each order has a minimum quantity of about 20 pounds, which turned out to be more than a…
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Another old rule breaks
Along with switching to the Euro campaign method, this sudden change also breaks another long-time “rule” of politics and corporations. For 40 years both monstrosities have been IGNORING the millions of human customers and SOLELY serving the dirty dozen billionaires. Basic rule of business AND government: If you want to make money from humans, you…
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Shifting balance
Quick polls and other measures of real support show an abrupt shift toward D after Harris definitely became the candidate. This makes sense from my own perspective. I gave up on the two teams a long time ago. Until 2020 I was just not interested in “voting” at all. After 2020 I became a strictly…
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From fences to commons
When computing changed from the Private Property model of the separate PC to the Deepstate Property model of web-based apps, tyrants won the battle for our memory. Brendan Eich played a major part in this loss when he designed Javascript for use by tyrants. Let’s follow the long trail of long term memory vs no…
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When spells break
Thinking about broken spells and busted myths today. When spells break, weird shit happens. We’ve had a lot of broken spells in the last 30 Bush years. 9/11 broke the spell of “terrorism” and Wilsonian “democracy” imperialism. 2008 broke the spell of honest banking. 2020 broke the spell of “public health” as a healing profession…
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Extending again
In previous item: Every real experience has non-verbal cultural factors that can’t be acquired through books or Google. This meshes with my assertion that secrecy is the default. Secrecy in this form is not enforced by government rules and censors; it arises from the natural barrier around the culture and experience of a group. The…
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More proof that parliament works
We coulda hada parliament. We started out with a rebranded version of the British system in the Articles, then NYC replaced it with a rigid totalitarian setup in 1787. In Canada and Britain, despite the universal takeover of all Five Eyes by the same Deepstate, the old system continues to function as a feedback mechanism.…
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Burgum’s boxtop
Here’s a radical idea, which might have been understood at some time in the prehistoric past: If you want people to do something, pay them. Burgum, considered the likely VP for Trump, understands this ancient weird lost arcane astrological mystical wisdom. He wanted people to vote for him, so he paid them. Because of our…
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Reprint on utility and grammar
Reprint from 2021, just because I want to bring it back to the foreground. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research…
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Pits and spoons
Briggs is trying to bring real human experience back into science. In this piece he analyzes claims of telekinesis and speculates on quantum action. He doesn’t reach any conclusions. I think he may be starting from an unproductive angle. Our thinking on these subjects is narrowed down by our intuitive sense that force is a…
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Soft power reprint
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. Soft motors, soft governments Following immediately on the Surace dystopia. When all the carefully designed feedback mechanisms of culture and government have been ripped out or paralyzed by the Goldman virus, is there any hope? Probably not, but here’s a half-formed thought. Returning to an earlier realization, triggered rather…
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The purpose of Libertarians
From a delicious report on the current state of Elon cultists: = = = = = START DELICIOUS: He claims the recording was made at a Los Angeles Tesla supercharger station that is underequipped — with just five or six chargers, two of which are designated for handicapped use — for the high demand in…
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Reciprocity
I’m trying to pull away from places where I’m the Product and stick with places where I’m the Customer. Substack has become a Productifier since it started Notes. Just now I totaled up the subscription payments over the last month, and it came to exactly $100. That’s a lot of money for not much pleasure.…
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Today is Bean Counter Day
The day after the traditional (but not observed) Income Tax Day has been dedicated to accountants and bookkeepers and clerks. Clerks are insultingly called bean-counters by grandiose executives who want to eat all the beans. Following today’s theme, clerks are the internal negative feedback mechanism for predatory capitalists. When the exec wants to LBO the…
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