Tag: NOW I SEE
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What’s the inverse?
In previous item I distinguished Tech Talk and Patron Talk, which turned out to be a useful variable. = = = = = START REPRINT: When we see absurd crap floating around the media and ask Do they really think we’re stupid? we’re asking a meaningless question. We don’t count. We aren’t in the loop.…
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Great comment, new thought
SpokaneNews explained that the small Cessna people are seeing all over the place is a Highway Patrol plane going back and forth over I-90 looking for speeders. It does an especially good job of keeping up with idiot motorcycles, who have been screaming around lately at 160 MPH. Best comment: I wish they would spray…
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Boxtops all the way down
I stay on the email list of NewSuperstitionist because they occasionally feature an interesting development that I hadn’t heard about through other sources. Their emails in recent years reveal a change in their business model. NS runs frequent cruises to various parts of the world, with big-name “Experts On Board” to narrate and discuss what…
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Revelation, not reveal
Looking up something about analog computers, ran into this NASA publication on the history of fly-by-wire. The really interesting part of the book is NOT the computing part; it’s the basic history of flying with wings. Each profession and skill has its own internal history and base assumptions, which are rarely understood by outsiders. Sometimes…
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First ads
Someone on substack was defending the need for advertising when done for honest purposes. I commented: Yes! Advertising is part of nature. “Buy my pollen, get a free honey drink!” This seems like something I must have written here already, but oddly I didn’t. Despite all my musings on the Duane Jones book, and my…
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Alien empathy
The life of an executive is purely alien to me. Managing is not in my genes or family history or training, so I’ve carefully avoided getting into such jobs. The few times I had to do a little bit of managing, I failed and hated it. Here’s a rare candid insight into how it feels,…
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Better explanation
Wandering through the toxic sludge of Wilson’s CPI led to a big AHA. Ten years ago I was genuinely shocked to find that we had invaded and occupied Siberia in 1918. We were working with the Japs, who later monetized their experience into an independent invasion in the 1930s. We were also working with the…
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Interesting “coincidence”
Thinking about the parallels between 1968 protests and 2024 protests led to an enticing “coincidence”. The NSA web was started in 1968 by ARPA, founded by Bezos’s grandpa. The web’s first users were universities. The publicly announced first use was tracking academic research so NSA could coordinate and steal and manipulate. Reminded me of a…
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It’s still feedback
Yesterday I bitched that the government totally lacks negative feedback. The people want the EXACT OPPOSITE of what government is doing on all issues. If a control input from the people was connected, government actions would flip back and forth for a while, then settle down into an equilibrium as popular satisfaction calmed down the…
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Shannon info!
ZeroHedge mentions that BlackVault had tried to get an FBI file on Bezos’s grandfather, but the file was supposedly deleted. That’s not important. Here’s the important fact. I didn’t know it until now. Jeff’s grandpa was Gise, the founder of DARPA and the grandpa of the HTML internet. The conventional story says that Jeff was…
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Four, not three
The classic division of Aristocrats and Courtiers and Peasants was recognized commercially by car dealers as Conservative Prospects, Step-up Prospects and Luxury Prospects. Other marketers recognized the same three with different names. The bottom of each chain is minimalist and satisfied. The top of each chain is maximalist and satisfied. Top and bottom have a…
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The fleet rule
Listening every night to those auto dealer training films. They assumed forced obsolescence as a basic fact of the universe, and relied on the manufacturers to keep it moving. The Conservative Prospect was troublesome because he liked simplicity, liked to do his own maintenance, and disliked constant change. New thought: This is a pretty good…
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Tensile test
Animating old GenRad testing machines got me thinking in terms of Metrology again. Social media algorithms are testing machines for the pigeons in the Skinner box. You have a lever marked “block”, which allegedly gets rid of stuff you don’t want. You keep pressing, assuming that the AI algorithm will adapt to your desires. If…
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1974.2
The current fake flap around Uri Berliner’s fake ‘cancel’ reminded me of something that happened before. The details are different this time but the basic pattern is the same. 1974 was a major Deepstate coup. Nixon was assigned as official scapegoat or sacrificial anode. He accomplished all the horrible tasks Deepstate needed, while cloaking the…
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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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