Tag: Kirn Quibbles
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Guarangoddamnteed.
Kirn writes: Sensibility colonies are forming. They are not organized but magnetized. They’re purely voluntary. You know when you’re in one. You don’t sell out your fellows. You allow for all sorts of differences & when you can aid one another, you do. No one speaks for all. No other rules. The sellout part is…
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Yeah, but what IS it kinda like?
Fine one-liner from Kirn. Congress is showing its idiocy in hearings about the Taibbi Twitter expose. Zing! The non-techy congresspuppet should have prepared better. Congresspuppets have large staffs of younger people whose entire job is preparing and scripting the puppet. The staff didn’t do their job. BUT: The question isn’t easy. In non-techy terms, what…
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Ancient words
Kirn points out yet another reason why you shouldn’t copyright your work if you want to leave a legacy. I hadn’t thought about this part of the problem. He shows parallel passages from Roald Dahl’s novel ‘Witches’, with the latest edition bowdlerized by Woke idiocy. Recently the ancient word usufruct popped into my ancient head…
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Strong point
Pithy point from Kirn: One “superstition” I was invited to laugh at as a youngster was the aversion of certain traditional and native peoples to having their pictures taken and to photographic imagery in general. But I don’t laugh at this now. Sometimes I even ask myself how in the world they knew. I’m not…
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Multilayer misdirection
Kirn and Taibbi have fun with a bizarre “sciency” article written by Brookings Inst. The article uses superfancy fake “vector” methods to analyze podcasts by Unpersons and finds “scientifically” that Unpersons are Unpersons. Which they already knew. I’m a bit more mathy than K and T, so I looked at the actual article to check…
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Good point, best point
Pretty good point from Kirn: AI Chatbots simply formalize & make explicit the profoundly inert nature of collective thinking that made real artists & writers attractive in the first place. They are more important than ever now, in fact, as second-rate pseudo-creativity has consolidated itself as never before. Vastly stronger point from one of his…
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Same line, different sides
Pithy from Kirn: If you want to distinguish your behavior from that of an AI, make it super robotic and below-average all the time. The AI right now is all hung up on seeming authentic and smart. Reminds me immediately of a much older situation where the human vs machine line was drawn along the…
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Kirn back in action
Here’s an evocative question from Kirn: We didn’t need AI to make quasi-counterfeit art that many find indistinguishable from original works by human artists. It’s an old game, long mastered. The question is why are we prepared now to grant these machine forgeries, though they may be more complex, special esteem? Damn good question. The…
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That’s dumb.
Kirn: The point of social media was not to craft, perpetuate, and defend a one-party state. Crap. That’s just DUMB. I’ll grant that the web didn’t need to CRAFT a one-party state, because the one-party state already existed. The last real federal election was 1952. Before the NSA web, Deepstate organized activist groups on “both”…
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Orwell said it better
Kirn: If not careful, we’re going to end up in a caste system built around truth & accuracy. The people at the top will have great info, those in the middle decent info mixed w/ junk & propaganda, those at the bottom pure BS. And you may be stuck in your class, security-clearance style Not…
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It’s deeper than iPhones
Latest from Kirn: Today I went to great lengths to express myself clearly in several interactions — with a server in a restaurant, a hotel clerk, etc — and was met in each case by a sort of cheerful, glazed, and rather stubborn incomprehension. Frustrating. Strange. Felt almost astrological. Commenters cite iPhone distraction, which is…
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Salon?
Non-woke Twitter users are quickly developing a cult of personality around Messiah Elon. Kirn claims to see a much more “salon-like” atmosphere. As a non-member who doesn’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, I don’t see any difference. Twitter now allows a non-member to browse without limit, so I can see more messages than…
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Cruel joke
Taibbi and Kirn are talking about the Nevada “election”, where counting seems to be sloppy in favor of the house. Kirn says that no casino would allow sloppy counting, so why should the state’s “elections” allow sloppy counting? He’s implying that casinos and “elections” are opposite. Casinos are meant to be rigged while “elections” are…
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Wrong Great Man
Kirn: I find it interesting that just when it appeared the takeover of Twitter was inevitable & the censorship regime would end, the establishment suddenly started questioning the closing of schools during the pandemic, vacillating about the vaccines, & endorsing the lab-leak theory. Probably not. Those specific shifts are just how psychopaths work. CONSTANT FAST…
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Kirn misses it
Here he balances out yesterday’s precise hit! We’re in what I’d term the “taste destruction” phase of cultural change. It’s similar to what food co’s did once to wean us off good food and prepare us for products like Wonder Bread, only it involves language, images, and music. You’ll accept less once you forget there…
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