Tag: Foy Rebellion
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One big mistake
Michael Kochin makes an excellent proposal but misses the history entirely and treats all the standard consensus positions as real. Kochin is mostly echoing an earlier book by Paul Feyerabend. He says that in the 1700s western culture decided to separate church from state, but didn’t anticipate the later replacement of church by Science. He…
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Somebody had the right idea
Our cowhands wore boots and chaps to protect their legs from sagebrush and thistles and cactus. I’ve always wondered why they didn’t give their horses similar protection. Via Vintage.es, some French farmers fitted their donkeys with leftover trousers to guard the legs against flies and mosquitoes and thistles. Since the donkeys were just pulling plows…
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Possible explanation?
Seems like a lot of old and new falsehoods are being pulled down lately. Right now the silly little myth of Biden’s eternal youth and omnipotence is being knocked down, most likely for nefarious reasons. The lies about the 2020 “virus” are starting to fall away, more gradually and reluctantly, which indicates less nefarious reasons.…
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France returns to France (maybe)
Macron’s weird bet is happening today. Like most countries, France can have an election any time the government wants. France is NOT stuck in hell for an automatic unstoppable 4-year sentence. Parole is possible. Macron is a Wall Street alumnus, so he enjoys destroying entire countries for fun and profit. See Soros or Sammy. It…
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Back to Magic Lanterns
Returning to the crucially important theme of science as entertainment. Before science became a tool for war and torture in 1946, science was often mixed with magic and entertainment. The Magic Lantern was the intersection of the two. This time I’m not trying for historical authenticity; I’m mixing periods and making up things that could…
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Three counterexamples
Constants and Variables: Booker T vs the Meritocrats. Before the “rights” crowd started playing their vicious game in the 1700s, caste and locality worked together to keep cultures strong and give most men and women a position that fitted their abilities and tendencies. The meritocrats busted up both caste and locality with the fraudulent claims…
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All Foy, no Pollocks now
Demi Pietchell interviews artist Michael Newberry. The headline mentions money laundering, but the discussion isn’t mainly about money laundering. It’s mainly about the Deepstate psyop of avant-garde art. The later history of the psyop is known, thanks to the Assange leaks of CIA documents. CIA sponsored and granted avant-garde visual shit and “progressive” jazz. The…
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When tools were tools
Random pointless thought about algorithms and such. A tool is supposed to be a servant, not a master. It’s supposed to be an extension of your muscles and senses, not a battering ram to club you into submission. Before 2010 most of our tools were servants. The most basic tools like clothing and houses adapted…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 4 of 5
This is Metrology Day! I’ve done several relevant items in recent weeks, especially GenRad’s color comparator and a return to the alidade theme. = = = = = I’ve been researching and modeling a lost tech, closely related to my recent sequences on Pinfeed and Pigskin, and Pinfeed and GenRad. Instead of regrouping the previous…
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Pinfeed and Pigskin, part 5 of 5
Now let’s look at the process of making and punching and selecting Filmsort cards. I’ve modeled some of Filmsort’s patents and reused some of my old McBee animations, subbing a Filmsort McBee card for a non-image McBee card. = = = = = Polistra is an office manager tasked with turning a company’s film into…
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Why is music unique?
In Gioia’s latest interview he spends a lot of time discussing Romanticism, which is the parallel to my Foy Rebellion. He also uses Taylor Swift vs AI as an example of opposite trends. AI is removing the human element from the ‘low end’ of music, Swift is returning the human element to the top-dollar end.…
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Literal viewpoint
In the simpler parts of reality, your physical position makes a huge difference. A motor is turning clockwise or counterclockwise depending on which end you see. Same for the earth, except that we’ve standardized the top view. Richard Rushfield and Ted Gioia are two writers with similar backgrounds, both writing in the same place about…
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Eat it, Elon.
= = = = = START QUOTE: Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of…
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Foy vs Elon
Since I’m having fun with Elon cultists, here’s a beautiful example of tech thinking vs human thinking. The grotesquely dangerous CBRTRK has unsurprisingly turned out to be dangerous to its idiot buyers. The front trunk, like everything on the mobile sword, has sharp edges. The frunk, also like everything on the mobile sword, is fully…
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