Tag: skill-estate
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Kedit is still alive… updated
Reposted for latest update. Every now and then I check the webpage of Mansfield Software, the maker of Kedit. For 20 years they’ve been trying to give up the ship, and each time they decide to keep supporting and selling just a little bit longer. I’ve never needed support because Kedit has never shown a…
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Glamorous?
Somebody on substack said “People think traveling for work is glamorous.” … then showed some of the unglamorous places she traveled to. I never thought it was glamorous. Back in the 70s I traveled for work, mainly driving a 1955 Ford flatbed truck, and went to faraway places with strange-sounding names like Meade and Goltry.…
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More on cursive
Mentioned in previous item, also worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2016 REPRINT: Wandering through KSHS again, found this collection of documents left over from the founding of Bluemont College, which became K-State after Isaac Goodnow finagled a state purchase. Goodnow was an IPO man in modern terms, picking up capital by…
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We could learn more
This rant was inspired by two sources: the Chavez version of oil MBS, and Mamdani’s brilliant phrase ‘the warmth of collectivism’. Progressives and wokies love to focus on the ‘spiritual’ side and the ‘suffering’ side of the old American tribes. We could learn a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT MORE from the commercial success of…
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Shock and awe? Not clear yet /// EDIT: Clear.
A brave science teacher in Caracas has been reporting via Substack for a few weeks. The only reliable news comes from locals who see and hear what’s happening. Around here, the only reliable news comes from the SpokaneNews facebook group. Mainstream “news” from every city and country is useless. The previous stage of our grotesque…
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Booker T said it best
China is the stork. Citing Aesop: = = = = = START FABLE: The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The…
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Signal for 2026
Found in this afternoon’s walk: A real pencil, clearly well used. Nice signal from the analog universe.
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Year-end recharge
Trying to recharge my purpose batteries after a deep discharge this year. Reprinting the basic Foy Rebellion piece written in 2022 when the Bush-Trump torture chamber was still running full speed in the demon-owned states, including here. = = = = = START 2022 REPRINT: Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary…
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Why the bubble?
Why did Altman’s new style of predictive algorithm become a giant Wall Street bubble? Prediction has been the PRIMARY purpose of calculation for thousands of years. Most formal math, and many measuring instruments, developed to predict astronomical patterns for religious purposes, first in Islam then copied by Christians. Statistics was developed explicitly for betting. Analog…
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Shovels
The Genesis Mission is touted as a new A-bomb project. Not a good comparison in either direction. On the destructive side: We used the actual bomb twice on Japan, where it did less damage than our old-fashioned firebombing. Thermite destroyed far more of Japan than uranium. The Tech Tyrants want us to see AI in…
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Same principles
Lile Mo is building a book at Substack, deriving lessons for civilization by telling how each Chinese city used its own resources and skills to monopolize an area of commerce. From her latest note: The highest value land is not found; it is made. This transformation is not accidental; it is the result of the…
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Buying Canadian without knowing it
When my skin started doing weird things this summer I went to the doctor several times, got two different diagnoses and a variety of different pills and creams. Eventually I decided that it fits the description of eczema, and the usual recommendations for eczema seem to handle it better than the special prescriptions. Controlling stress…
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Ned Green and enjoyable science
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2021 REPRINT: Following part 1 and part 2 and part 3. Saved the best for last. Colonel Ned Green was the most influential of these three men. Money talks, and intelligently-directed ENJOYABLE money talks best. His mother Hetty Green was the equivalent of…
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Guild vs law
Seen at Substack: Nowadays the suspicion that everyone uses AI for creative work is so strong and omnipresent that soon every artist and writer will be forced to reveal their work process step by step or else their authorship will be denied. I wrote a short response saying that this type of caution is normal.…
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One-stop shop
History Today tells how medieval scribes adapted to the onset of printing by reusing and expanding their existing materials, tools and skills. = = = = = START QUOTE: At its height Oxford’s book trade enjoyed the establishment of Dominican and Franciscan friaries in need of books for university activities and preaching, and an early…
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