Tag: Foy Rebellion
-
Exact parallel
Business Insider says that tired and disgusted workers are demanding cubicles, after two decades of QE and ZIRP and the idiotic WeWork “open offices”. = = = = = START QUOTE: Little did anyone realize that within a few years, the cubicle walls would come crashing down. The tech boom arrived, bringing with it open…
-
Buckle down and stay lazy!
I’m noticing a common theme in a lot of writers this week, which looks orchestrated. Let’s buckle down and get back to work! Let’s keep the wheels turning at full speed! Start families, have babies! NO. This is what the Tyrants want. They want everyone cheerfully working together to achieve total destruction. Empires don’t collapse…
-
Hope everyone copies this law!
Via ArsTechnica, Britain is requiring software firms to notify users in advance of their endless psychopathic updates which always destroy functionality and prevent work. Apple is threatening to leave Britain. GOOD! I hope all countries enact similar laws so Apple will leave all countries.
-
Another argument for Foy
Compact Mag has a powerful article on an obscure British scandal. What happens when you trust the machine more than humans? Lots of innocent people end up in jail. In 2000 the British post office hired Fujitsu to build a software system linking all the post office branches in stores and other locations to the…
-
2012 as seen from 1962
This 1962 publication by IRE (now IEEE) celebrated the 50th anniversary of the organization and looked ahead to 2012 with a series of “lookbacks”. The supermodern superadvanced world-peaceful 2012 inhabitants looked back with contempt at horrible neanderthal 1962. Technical predictions were highly accurate and not really prophetic, since all the necessary pieces were either finished…
-
Ease and comfort
Previous item about retirement emphasized ‘ease and comfort’, a time when you don’t have to be anywhere or satisfy anyone except yourself. Strikes an immediate resonance. During the “virus” holocaust I was fighting all the time, churning out courseware and graphics, walking every day and making the hellish storetrip twice a week by bus. Now…
-
Jefferiad
Jeffrey Tucker writes a proper jeremiad. (Jefferiad?) = = = = = START QUOTE: Such “public health” measures were not even within the range of possibility outside the worst dystopian fiction. And yet it all happened in a flash, all with the assurance that The Science demanded it. None of the institutions on which we…
-
One little difference
In 1948 Chevy produced a film trying to ease the impatience of customers who were feeling the end result of postwar adjustments. It explains all the economic and material factors involved in restarting production after a NECESSARY WAR. The movie is objective and SYMPATHETIC. Our present situation is similar except that we are feeling the…
-
A fine Foy story.
From REA News in 1940…. John L. Jones of Silver Hill makes chairs. His father before him made chairs and his father before him and so on back for more generations than can now be counted; on back to the pioneer days of Tennessee and on back of that to the “ould sod.” But all…
-
France returns to Foy
From a substack titled ‘Craftsmanship’: = = = = = START QUOTE: In 2017, an idealistic and relatively unknown French activist sued tech behemoth Apple, Inc., over its “alleged” practice of designing iPhones to fail after just a few years. She wasn’t the first environmentalist to challenge Apple—but when she won, it became big news.…
-
Need to remember
In one of Bloomberg’s more casual podcasts, someone said: Welcome to 2023, when nobody wants to work and everything is ten times harder than it should be. Exactly. Services that used to take days to schedule now take months. Stores are switching to self-scan because they can’t keep employees. BUT: I need to remember that…
-
Anderson and Foy
A Redditor in Europe is complaining that universities are becoming more like secondary schools. Previously the Euro tradition put all the weight on the test. If you aced the final test it didn’t matter whether you attended the lectures. Now they’re requiring attendance at every class. I don’t know if his complaint is valid, but…
-
Not the same WE part 2
The overblown love for HUGE ancient cathedrals and castles is stupid and dangerous. It helps the rulers maintain their monopoly on lethal status and lethal force. Here’s another example. Hohenzollern Castle in Germany, on top of a bluff, was built specifically to defend against competing aristocrats and most of all to impress and OPPRESS the…
-
Well, I can build that myself!
More from the REA news in 1940. The New Deal was all about DECENTRALIZING power. Henry Wallace hammered on the theme endlessly, and agencies like WPA and REA and TVA were serious about letting local coops and companies determine their own way of using the federal funding. Every aspect of their structure and rhetoric was…
-
Ars brevis
Rushfield at the Ankler is keying into a subject I’ve been obsessing on lately. (Not one of my perpetual points!) = = = = = START QUOTE: There’s massive amounts of waste, unfortunately, left to cull within these new realities: massive bureaucracies serving assumptions that can’t go on. These are bloated, uncompetitive industries, focused on…
Polistra's Mill 