Tag: skill-estate
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Bigger questions
This discussion on Reddit verifies a hardass fact of life. Men stop talking about our troubles because women use the information for blackmail. This is actually a special case of a broader rule. Both genders are vulnerable in other situations. Priests and Deepstate want to hear your troubles so they can use the information for…
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Raw materials
The Ankler interviews a striking writer who makes a striking analogy. Every real business relies on raw materials or basic labor, and makes money by organizing and selling the materials and labor. “You wouldn’t have content, you wouldn’t be talking about streaming, if you didn’t have writers and actors to create the raw material.” Honest…
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The yak is the point
I’m doing an electronic project this week, aiming to make the GenRad 1565 into a practical microphone. If it works, I want to record a series of audio segments from Henry Wallace’s book. The entire purpose is fun, not practical. I know nobody will listen. As in any project, there’s a certain amount of yak-shaving.…
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Khaldun on the Dry Line
Still running through old materials looking for more weird clocks to animate. One clock was described in a journal about Islamic culture, which also included a lengthy article on Khaldun. His description of historical cycles is both accurate and well-known. He also had trenchant observations on a subject closer to home: the Dry Line. Reviewing…
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The sides aren’t always rigid
Not a new thought, just a reinforced old thought. The BASIC dividing line for civilization and economics and technology has always been: Who does it serve? One side says that everything must serve human beings. The other side says everything must serve Genghis or Attila or Caesar or Robespierre or Morgan or Zuck, depending on…
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From Mao to Marx in one move
A constant theme in old scifi, and a recognized rule of human behavior: An external enemy like an alien invasion can unite bickering family members or internally divided nations. Our monstrous rulers have been dividing us for centuries, with special success in the last 30 years thanks to their total control of MEDIA. Alien monsters…
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Stages
Doomberg, a prolific and pseudonymous bitcoiner, reveals how Twitter worked and how Xlon changed it. Summary: Like all social media, Twitter had Lurkers, Participants and Creators. Twitter was different from other media like Youtube or Facebook or old-fashioned publishers, because Twitter didn’t pay its creators. Instead, the Creators were meant to use Twitter as a…
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What happened? China.
As I’m expanding my daily walks to include some blocks I haven’t seen in several years, and some I never walked before, I’m noticing one systematic change. 10 years ago many houses in the neighborhood had wall-mounted air conditioners. This was a bit of a fad in the ’50s, and it was necessary on the…
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Terrible fad
Suddenly all the “independents” are pushing gym class. I suppose it started with Joe Rogan, then jumpingjacked into prominence when Elon challenged Zuck to a duel. RFK has joined in. His uncle pushed gym class, and Bob Jr has been showing off his muscles. Gym class is NOT the way to regain usefulness. Weightlifting is…
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What’s wrong with Frank?
Hersh interviews Thomas Frank. They accurately describe the well-known realignment of D and R. In 1932 D became the HONEST voice of the working class and remained there as long as FDR breathed. Now both represent the plutocrats, with varying forms of dishonesty. D pretends to be about hippie shit. Before 2016, R was openly…
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Both ways continued
Continuing the cuts both ways theme from previous item… Craig Wright, a professional suer, is also running a patent factory, generating THOUSANDS of carefully crafted patents to block everyone else in the blockchain game. Patent pools cut both ways. When used by pure fraudsters like Wright, they block normal business. Bitcoin is a purely dishonest…
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“We’re the ones you’ll talk to”
More classic labor defense from Fran. Transcribing the best parts: Workers in the whole world are being displaced by robots. What happens here, everyone else is looking at. AI is going to put people out of work. It’s already putting our members out of work. And that is MANIACAL. What are you doing? Why do…
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Debs and Gompers would be proud
Franny the Nanny delivers a classic stemwinding labor speech. She knows how to sell. She doesn’t sidetrack into cultural crap or fine details. Pure labor vs capital, workers vs Wall Street. Gompers approved of women leading labor unions 100 years ago, so he wouldn’t be shocked at all. = = = = = The folks…
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MAGNIFICENT
MAGNIFICENT writing by Rushfield at the Ankler. Anything I try to add would spoil it. READ IT.
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More Emerson
Demons have locked themselves out of the house. Via DailyMail: The economic center of the US is now in Dixie. = = = = = START QUOTE: Two-thirds of all job growth in the country is now concentrated in the Southeast, and it is home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing cities. The change in…
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