Tag: Equipoise
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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Beehiiv’s Mutual Benefit Society
Earlier I read about this and LOVED the idea. Now I’ve read the Society’s website. It’s the Media Collective. The info on the site matches what I read before, and also clarifies the revenue method. What I read before: Health insurance: Monthly stipend and concierge service with our network of insurance partners. Legal support: Pre-publication…
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Smart idea
Seen on Quora. Every ship coming in and out of the Baltic has to pass through the narrow straits around Copenhagen. In the 1700s Denmark charged a toll of 1% of the cargo’s value, to finance maintaining its ports. The ship had to dock and let the tax collector board to pay the toll. An…
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Fessenden’s radio steganography
Before Fessenden developed underground and underwater sonar equipment, he went to work for an early radiotelegraph company. There he developed a unique system of private broadcasting, steganography for radio, the audio equivalent of invisible ink. Privacy was felt to be needed because radio had lost the innate self-contained privacy of a telegraph wire. Most of…
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Rigged as always
Yesterday was the state primary “election”. I “voted” for Semi Bird, who was a serious man about ALL the right things. He had worked against Trump’s strangulation mandates when he was on a school board and got kicked out, which motivated him to try for governor. As guaranteed, he lost. Now the “choices” are Bob…
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Good idea!
Somebody wrote an opinion piece proposing that the Repooflicans should get rid of Trump now that the Dems have buried Biden’s corpse. I didn’t read the article because I knew the reasons would be entirely backwards and crazy. On a strategic level the proposal makes good sense. Trump is such a horrible candidate that he…
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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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