Tag: Leth
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Stop the shibboleths
Following on this recognition that the I in AI is Imagination, not Intelligence. People are saying that text with typos is more likely to be human instead of AI. First, specific shibboleths are doing more damage than good. The witch hunters are unfairly shaming or blocking real people. This gives the advantage to AI, as…
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Must be end of the month
How do you know it’s the end of a month? Aside from the increase in drug overdoses when the EBT cards are issued, the most reliable online signal is Substack screwing up its UI. Normally they mess with the CSS formatting so the page looks random and impossible to read. This time they left the…
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Must be a new month
Substack has screwed up its format again. This always happens at the first of a month. Each time the screwup is different. Goddamnit, why do tech tyrants have to keep fucking things up for the sole purpose of fucking things up? Human beings are smart enough to LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE. Unfortunately human beings don’t…
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GOOD!
I finally located a report of the trial that I escaped from. Now I can write about it. The jury did the RIGHT THING and found these assholes GUILTY. The Hilderbrands, operating a set of dubious businesses in Spokane Valley, were found guilty on multiple fraud charges. They will be sentenced in July, up to…
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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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Experienceleth
People who have real experience in a specific area can immediately distinguish between experienced and inexperienced writers or experts. This is especially true with juries and trials. Jury service is a common** experience, but the vast majority of people who write or talk about trials show that they haven’t been there. The media are focusing…
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Clarifier
The three-way division of sales targets into Conservative Prospects, Step-up Prospects and Luxury Prospects seems to have been common currency among all the dealers. For my purposes the division serves as an illuminator. It’s not a unique division by any means; the ancient and Orwellian caste divisions are exactly parallel. Auto Ancient Orwell Conservative Prospect…
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Today is Maine Streete Daye
Why does Maine Street in Enid have an E? It was named after the 1898 fake “attack” on the battleship Maine, which gave us an excuse to grab Cuba and the Philippines from Spaine. Remember the Maine was a national campaign to stir up war fever, the first of a hundred evil successors from Lusitania…
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The ultimate sucker filter
A company surveyed potential buyers and found that 67% wouldn’t buy Xlon’s nightmarish infantile bizarre CBRTRK. I’m amazed that 33% of ANY SAMPLE could like such a grotesque monstrosity and want to pay $100k for it. Proves that the current crop of rich fuckheads are the stupidest creatures in history. Stupider than bacteria, stupider than…
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The sides aren’t always rigid
Not a new thought, just a reinforced old thought. The BASIC dividing line for civilization and economics and technology has always been: Who does it serve? One side says that everything must serve human beings. The other side says everything must serve Genghis or Attila or Caesar or Robespierre or Morgan or Zuck, depending on…
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Broader Fairness Doctrine needed
FDR gave us the official Fairness Doctrine for R vs D partisanship, which also applied to other denominational teams like churches. Broadcasters had to take both sides, which meant in practice that they took NO SIDE. The result was much less national division along party lines. Lately I’ve been feeling generally non-confident and fearful, which…
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So close yet so far
Brownstone continues to diagnose the problem perfectly, but misses badly on the prescription side. I appreciate the full Machiavellian diagnosis, focusing HEAVILY on the lockdowns and ballgags, less on the needles. As I’ve been tiresomely and pointlessly repeating, the needles were only a few moments of pain. The rest of it was two full years…
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Cooroleth
While schadenfreuding on Bud Light’s plight, I’ve noticed a nice shibboleth. Coors was a regional brand before 1990, confined to the states around Colorado. It was unknown in Ohio and Pennsylvania when I lived there. In its original zone, Coors rhymed with doors and floors. Outside the zone, even in Oklahoma, Coors rhymed with tours.…
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No Okies there
The distinctly NYC/SF “independent” opinion page called The Free Press ran a Thurberish column countering our standard sentimentality about dogs. Famous Author Sherman Alexie joined in the comments and made a joke which none of the NYC/SF people caught. Secrecy is the purpose of language.
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Good leth
Question seen on Reddit: Could an Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnibenevolent God know all the digits of the number Pi? Or even the square root of 2? Kind of a silly question, but since to the best of our knowledge those numbers are irrational, is it possible for the above being to know all of their decimal…
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