Tag: NOW I SEE
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Big answer
TheFederalist interviews Jake Denton, a tech policy expert. Denton is Mach all the way down. He ignores the absurd noises of “elections” and “votes” and “legislation”, which normally prevent conservatives from thinking. He goes straight to raw personal power every time. Around 26:00 he answers one big question in a highly refreshing way. Why do…
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Barbenheimer is not new
Finally got ENOUGH sleep last night. With a non-fogged brain, listened to the Ankler folks discussing Barbenheimer as usual. Ping! This peculiar cocktail was mixed once before! I mentioned it last year in my feature on the Peilempfänger. = = = = = START QUOTE: Speaking of festive colors and obscure cryptographic machines, here’s the…
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First, second, third, fourth
One of the pro-AI substackers, discussing the fast “development” of systems like Midjourney, said: The next blockbuster movie will be written by a kid in Mom’s basement. First thought: It’s not “developing”. The development is done. What we’re seeing now is a carefully planned and staged rollout by the Men Of Monopoly, carefully publicized by…
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Nature’s ledger
Thinking again about the peculiar self-liquidating scrip. A city issued the scrip with a series of boxes or punch locations. Each time the scrip changed hands, a new hole was punched and a small tax was paid to the issuer. When all the holes were punched, the scrip was simply discarded. It had served its…
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Expert teacher, poor student
Back in 2019 I heard that Trump was trained by Roy Cohn, the best blackmailer in the world. This explained everything at the time. Since then, Trump’s blackmailing talents haven’t been on display. He claims that he didn’t want to do the “virus” tyranny, but he eagerly organized the concentration camps and strangled the world…
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That’s why
I wrote my usual comment about the nonsense of “rights”. For some reason the usual comment caused a new thought today. The usual comment: “Rights” are nonsense, not found in the Bible. “Rights” were created by aristocrats to grant themselves more privileges than they already have. New thought: I’ve always wondered why this particular bit…
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Trite but true, untried but true
Branching from previous item about the two Cindys. I figured out the truth when I stopped listening to Rush’s VERSION of what the Cindys (and Naomi) said, and started reading the ACTUAL TEXT of what they said. It was NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL. Previous AHAS always came from finding a primary unmediated source.…
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Fibers
Convective thought: I’ve been annoyed by galaxybrain bullies for a long time. Like Ockham’s schoolmen, they know ALL the details of ALL the facts in the world, and spin intricate webs of details, precise to an infinite number of decimal places. If you dare to answer, the galaxybrain will twist and turn your answer in…
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Visible or not, Paypal is there
Yesterday I donated to Wolf Richter as usual. He’s the only major writer who understands the real meaning of the end of QE. Everyone else, “left” or “right”, is screaming to get the free money going again, maintaining the bizarre fiction that zero interest is normal. The donation process seemed strange this time. I selected…
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Habits form assumptions…
Just figured out something. Reproducing my random “chain” of “thought”: After writing previous item on plus key vs minus key, I started “thinking” about the peculiarity of the standard PC keyboard. Plus is shift-equals, which is clumsy and error prone. The separate adding machine keyboard to the right is more convenient, but for some reason…
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Shadowbanometry
Shadowbanning and cancelling are useful measuring devices. I’m listening to some VC types discussing Balaji’s strange bet. I have exactly zero gambling genes, so my understanding of this type of behavior is extremely dim at best. After listening several times and thinking, I sort of halfway semi-understand: Balaji is known to hold far more than…
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Today I learned….
A pro-bitcoin redditor is using an interesting and worthwhile fact to make an invalid argument. The Nevada gaming commission stipulates that a casino must hold in reserves enough cash to cover every chip in play on its floor. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve stipulates that banks must hold in reserves between 0% to 3% worth of…
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Ugly Taxling
Elon is mostly continuing Deepstate control of Twitter, which is not surprising. He’s made a few changes to turn Twitter into a money-making business. The blue check thing is a classic example of how a real business works. Previously the Twitter management knew who was Correct and who was Incorrect, and assigned elite credentials accordingly.…
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Same tactics
More clarity on the “anti” AI petition, which is obviously an attempt to snatch control of the process. From the belly of the WEF beast: Elon is the prime mover behind this petition. Interpretation: Elon founded OpenAI and now he wants to take it back. The petition will drive down the share price so he…
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Why 1906?
I’ve been fascinated by two major inflection points. The more recent one, 1946, is not mysterious at all. After FDR died, Deepstate recaptured the territory it had lost, and started to obliterate the universe. UN, WHO, NSF, NIH, CDC, NSA, CIA. All the three-letter** demons were founded in 1946 with the same demonic purpose. The…
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