Tag: Powell!
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Soft power reprint
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. Soft motors, soft governments Following immediately on the Surace dystopia. When all the carefully designed feedback mechanisms of culture and government have been ripped out or paralyzed by the Goldman virus, is there any hope? Probably not, but here’s a half-formed thought. Returning to an earlier realization, triggered rather…
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Good news!
Pointed by Denyse as usual, Gizmodo writes about Satan Altman’s decreasing power. The VCs who formerly worshipped him are getting tired of his psychopathic monstrosity. = = = = = START GIZMODO: “He’s a megalomaniac,” said another. “For the same reason I don’t trust Elon, I just don’t trust somebody whose aspirations are so clearly…
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No, wait
As usual I was doomscrolling, noting that many colleges are dropping “humanities” courses, which really means torturer training courses. I was pissed because all the online writeups were bemoaning the loss, blaming Deplorables. No, wait! WHY AM I PISSED? THE ACTUAL TREND IS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. The bitching from well-paid devils is a…
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Fine. When will you start?
Yet another survey finds the public no longer trusts “journalists”. This one was done by something called the Reuters Institute, which is apparently not quite the same thing as the dying Reuters “news” agency. It polled US, UK, Brazil and India, and found the same distrust in the first three, while India still trusts its…
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Is it a problem?
Most of our institutions have rejected their own customers. This is described as a problem. In most cases it’s not a problem at all. When a business (eg Bud Light) offends its customers, the pressure of profit corrects the error. As long as QE/ZIRP was providing endless cash input via Share Value, the natural feedback…
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Where the elite meet to beat
Brownstone provides a progress report. I’m not going to impute bad motives to them, but I’m suspicious of their elite connections. They claim to be reforming the elite with secret “retreats” at hoity-toity resorts. Could be. But when the elite get together with the non-elite, the influence and power flows one way. Reforming the system…
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RFK + VP = EA
RFK has picked Nicole Shanahan as his VP. Shanahan is deeply involved with all the Tech Tyrants who are ruining the world. She’s Effective Altruism and Eugenics with a pretty face. Bye, Bobby. This almost makes the Biden admin look “not entirely bad” by comparison. (Everything is deltas from a baseline!) His administration has taken…
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Even the Austinites are rebelling
Ted Gioia is enough of an insider that he gets invited to their events. He reports that even the wild-eyed Innovative Disruptors at the annual Austin SXSW thing are tired of AI. When a speaker spewed the standard Effective Altruism pitch for AI, promising to enrich the rich and cull the Negative Externalities more effectively…
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Natural desistance?
Random thought triggered by Desistance, probably wrong. I wonder if we’re seeing a sort of natural Desistance from government. This year MANY young and competent and less partisan people are leaving Congress and leaving the federal bureaucracy. Each of them has expressed disgust and weariness with the utterly pointless institution. This will purify the monstrosity.…
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Gangster all the way
I’m coming to appreciate Bloomberg podcasts as the least divisive available source, and the closest to the Fairness Doctrine. The “independents” are mostly either pure DNC cult or pure Trump cult. In this one short podcast Bloomberg discusses the idiotic Tiktok ban rationally, pointing out that both parties are relying heavily on Tiktok for campaign…
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Starving the demons
There’s no way to kill or depose demons who own everything, but Nature has a way of starving overgrown monsters who trample and gobble up all the plants. Pointed via the Pillar substack, a list of the Vatican’s budget problems. This is good news for the real church, which is in Africa along with Snowbird…
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Another monster dies
Another idiotic and murderous idea dies, thanks to the end of free counterfeit! Apple drops its “self-driving” weapon. THANKS, POWELL!
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Still don’t see it
After watching more of those Cox/Moore appearances, I’m less snarky. I think Cox and Moore are probably sincere in their goals. I still don’t see how this will improve anything. We already know that all politicians at all levels and all countries get along beautifully off camera. 2020 proved that EVERYONE from presidents to governors…
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For once the admins are right
Via KREM: A group of WSU faculty is complaining about the current university president, saying that he needs to bring in more money. They want a new admin that will: = = = = = START FACULTY: Will implement effective strategies that bolster the academic and research excellence of WSU, along with its associated reputation…
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One sober man
From the 50s to the early 70s, the big three automakers were running on alcohol, not gasoline. By all accounts their top execs were falling-down drunk all the time, making uninhibited random bad decisions and generating stupid ideas which were forced on their companies. Mormon Romney was the only sober man in the industry, and…
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