Tag: skill-estate
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Makes me wonder
May 13 is Root Canal Appreciation Day. Without mentioning the date, New Scientist published an article about amazing ancient dentistry. Neanderthals were drilling teeth to get rid of decay 59000 years ago. = = = = = START QUOTE: In the Altai mountains of southwestern Siberia – where Neanderthals migrated from Europe about 70,000 years…
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Hammers
Catholics have been pulling some really dumb tricks in recent centuries, worshipping billionaires and Share Value by favoring Gaia and immigration. I’m pretty sure old JC wouldn’t advise popes and priests to worship bankers and moneychangers. Here’s a worthy countercurrent. The college of St Joseph the Worker is a trade school with strong religious overtones.…
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Makeforce reprint
Partial reprint from April 2019, a year before the chaotizers committed the biggest crime in history. = = = = = START REPRINT: Resistance is futile, but self-defense is not futile. First and most directly, don’t merge with the Cloud. Don’t take that last step, don’t place your devices into Elon’s hands. More subtly, use…
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“Astonishingly prolific”
I’ve been watching the NON-war between human creators and the Altman demons. As an author who deals with a publisher, I have a literal vested interest in the matter. This article includes one dramatic illustration of the enemy’s overwhelming power. The article describes “astonishingly productive” fake historians generated by Amazon’s demonic machine. = = =…
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Luminous and numinous
Every now and then I notice a clear night and check to see if the aurora is likely to be visible. Nothing happening tonight, but SpaceWeather.com has a sight more beautiful and luminous than an aurora: = = = = = START LUMINOSITY: This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models…
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We’re not using what we have
The local paper has an article about a recent bus crash. A driver was following the computer instead of his eyes, and crashed one of the new double-decker buses into a railroad overpass. I’ve been riding STA buses for 35 years, so I know something about the setup. I’ve been programming for 45 years, so…
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π Day
Keeping up a tradition… π Day again! Since I’m talking typography lately, I’ll hash and rehash a couple items from 2019. = = = = = Thinking about Trump as Pied Piper. When the metaphor first appeared in those DNC emails I didn’t quite understand it. After learning that Trump is Roy Cohn’s protege, I…
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Show, don’t tell.
If you want to sell a product or a religion you have to SHOW the product, not just tell us to buy it. Churches quote the New Testament and then viciously reject lonely and poor people. In 2020 the Democrats talked “resistance” and then lethally assisted Trump’s torture chamber, continuing it for two years after…
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You already have what you need
Reprint from 2021, linked in previous. = = = = = START REPRINT: One of the small pleasures of life is pulling an ace from your sleeve. One of the BIG pleasures is creating independence and self-sufficiency, defeating the all-consuming Github. I use Poser intensively for work and play, for courseware animations and blog stuff…
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Wrexperts
Previous items about guilds, and Lampert steering Sears into the iceberg, reminded me of a previous highly productive line of thought. Rehashing a couple pieces written in Feb 2020, just before Bush and Trump hijacked and wrecked the entire world. = = = = = I was thinking and reading about the remarkable continuity of…
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Where is the advertising guild?
I got an email from an organization called West’s Awake. It sounds like something I might want to support. It also sounds familiar and might be something I supported in the past. I won’t check the links because it could easily be a scam. If it’s a real organization, it just missed the chance to…
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Never need them again
EnidBuzz features a new clothing store in downtown Enid. I recognized the location instantly. Sears. It’s an awfully big building for a startup clothing store. Sears formerly sold everything but food. Tools were in the basement, so that’s where I shopped in the 70s. Bought a whole lot of metric Craftsman tools, still have most…
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Make beauty
Since the Bush-Trump torture chamber of 2020 I’ve been peeling away from Machiavellian shit. Trying to pay near-zero attention to politics and media noise. Focusing on making beauty and order where possible, trying to do the right thing though it’s never rewarded and usually punished. I’ve also been turning off subscriptions to writers who show…
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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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