Tag: Foy Rebellion
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Electrotyping, part 1 of 3
August 2026: bringing this series up to the front to celebrate a smart decision by Kansas City. As pointed by Robert Bryce, the KC planning commission rejected a proposal to replace the Kellogg bldg by a tall AI data center. GOOD. Ansel Kellogg built a HUMAN data center specifically to keep small country papers alive…
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Electrotyping, part 2 of 3
[August 2026, bringing this series to the front to celebrate KC’s decision to keep the Kellogg Building.] = = = = = Part 1 showed the essential process of electrotyping in a small-scale experimental setup. Real factories like Kellogg’s Patent Insides used bigger machines in mass production. Here again is the Kellogg building in KC,…
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Electrotyping, part 3 of 3
[August 2026, bringing this series to the front to celebrate KC’s decision.] After the type is set into a form, suitable for ordinary printing, the electrotype process begins by smashing the form into a thin layer of wax on a metal plate. The metal plate will become the negative electrode in the plating vat. The…
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Reported full moon reported!
Via Spokane News. 800 North Sullivan Rd, vehicle collision in the drive through line reported. Reported a vehicle with a person dressed as an oversized bear on the top of a vehicle did not see the other vehicle and hit them. Caller thinks one driver is possibly intoxicated. Reported the occupants of both vehicles are…
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Reward crime, punish honesty.
Rewarding crime and punishing honesty is COOL now. Cities and states refuse to jail thieves, so stores turn into prisons for honest people. Companies reward hackers and punish honest users. Canvas was expertly hacked by an organized gang who worked through Canvas’s private Github area to locate user data, then captured millions of users and…
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Life in the Cracks Day (reprint)
From the National Days website: The Festival of Life in the Cracks Day on March 10 celebrates the sprouting of greenery in the cracks of sidewalks and walls to commemorate the coming of springtime. This annual event acknowledges the complexity of the cycle of life and how renewal and rebirth are integral parts of it.…
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Foy dream and random notes
Last night’s dream. I was hand-cranking a sewing machine, helping an Amish group to sew and embroider a large curtain protesting against mechanization of thought. = = = = = Seen at substack: Canada must feel like the apartment above a meth lab. Absolutely perfect. Hereby replaces the old metaphor “in bed with an elephant.”…
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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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Year-end recharge
Trying to recharge my purpose batteries after a deep discharge this year. Reprinting the basic Foy Rebellion piece written in 2022 when the Bush-Trump torture chamber was still running full speed in the demon-owned states, including here. = = = = = START 2022 REPRINT: Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary…
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Good work by Ireland!
Via Solari Report: Ireland has passed a law requiring all businesses to take cash along with other forms of payment. = = = = = START QUOTE: Until now, Ireland’s contract law merely has required that cash be accepted if it is to settle a debt. A legal loophole allows businesses to refuse cash as…
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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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First video game?
Visual displays were common in early telegraphs and railroad signaling systems. There’s nothing new about a visual GUI. Wheatstone’s first system in 1832 was meant for home use, though it didn’t succeed commercially. Here the bee is typing out a message: In the 1850s the magnificent Foy system for the French railroads used a visual…
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More Foy Rebellion
Another small indication of the Foy Rebellion, the return to analog. During the Bush-Trump “virus” holocaust, young folks lost their connection to life for an irreplaceable two years. They turned to digital media like dating apps, but eventually found that digital can’t replace face to face. Now they’re returning to clubs and real dates, and…
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Not any worse
Reading tech history and medieval history in the last decade has been highly satisfying and informative. Old tech journals tell you what was happening in society if you know the jargon and know how to read between the lines. The newer medieval historians are actually DOING THEIR JOB, telling us in clear language how ordinary…
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What good is writing?
If you aren’t writing you aren’t thinking. Variations on this theme, allegedly quoted from the usual suspects, are common in substack and other literary places. It doesn’t make a lick of sense. Humans were thinking in constructive ways LONG before writing was established. They were thinking well enough to selectively breed plants and livestock, to…
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