Tag: Trinity House
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Bankruptcy is the solution.
Denyse comments on the latest evidence that “science” has totally abandoned science for politics. SciAm outright endorsed Harris instead of Trump, AFTER FIRMLY SUPPORTING WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID IN 2020. This is the exact opposite of the “independent” activists, who worked hard to oppose WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID, and now are universally working FOR Trump.…
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MTS?
Rushfield puts out his annual State Of The Entertainment Industry message. He holds out some theoretical vain hope, based solely on the imbalance between demand and supply. Everyone wants entertainment, and the outsiders are supplying it adequately. Hollywood lost its chance a long time ago, just as the “journalism” industry lost its chance earlier and…
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Understated but true
Wesley Smith describes Francis Collins as a “disappointing” leader. Well, “disappointing” in the same way that Herr Hitler turned out to be a “disappointing” Chancellor of Germany. Smith grasps the basic problem accurately. Academia has the habit of promoting good researchers into management, following the myth that teaching and research and management are all the…
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Why the new breed is new
I’ve been watching the new breed of journalists formed by the Sammy trial. These two clips from Carly lead to an observation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HsLyBam-s Here she’s discussing Sammy’s parents and their failed attempt to manufacture political victories. Carly was finance director for Andrew Yang’s campaign in 2020, so she knows how to run a campaign. When…
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Simpler answer
Denyse notes an article showing that research grants are already being written by ChatGPT: = = = = = START QUOTE: A 2023 Nature survey of 1,600 researchers found that more than 25% use AI to help them write manuscripts and that more than 15% use the technology to help them write grant proposals. Some…
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Return to Trinity House
MindMatters is pointing to the latest Carbon Craziness from a major “science” journal. Not new. This is the permanent norm in academia. Science is Dillinger. Science goes where the money is. The major magazines have been screeching about Carbon for 15 years, interrupted only by their louder and more genocidal screeching about “virus”. Pointing won’t…
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Vivek kills Parkinson
In this speech Vivek states precisely and legalistically how he will DESTROY the monsters created by Parkinson. He lists precise and specific laws that FORBID the vast majority of agencies, and other precise and specific laws that AUTHORIZE a president to fire huge numbers of bureaucrats and ELIMINATE illegal agencies. FDR did the same thing…
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One problem
This interview focuses on the AI part of the Hollywood strike. The actors are missing one important point about the nature of copyright. They want each actor to own the copyright on his own image and voice and behavior. Copyright was NOT meant to defend one author against a publisher. One author can never mobilize…
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More sanity from Lawyer Stevens
Lawyer Richard Stevens writes another splendidly clear article on AI and lawsuits. As I’ve noted before, it’s not mysterious. AI is a tool. When a tool is designed to cause damage or death, the MAKER of the tool is responsible. AI is designed to cause libel and damage and death. It’s advertised as a game-like…
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Lost name opportunity
Some of the Trinity House experiments in shipboard wireless were performed at the lighthouse on Muckle Flugga, an island in the Shetlands. What a lost opportunity! If the first success had happened there, we’d be studying Mucklefluggology and listening to the Flugga and checking our eflug. The lighthouse is still there, and looks very muckle…
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Guarangoddamnteed.
Kirn writes: Sensibility colonies are forming. They are not organized but magnetized. They’re purely voluntary. You know when you’re in one. You don’t sell out your fellows. You allow for all sorts of differences & when you can aid one another, you do. No one speaks for all. No other rules. The sellout part is…
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Bureaucratic genes and epigenes
I read and understood Parkinson 50 years ago, and haven’t yet seen any contrary evidence. In fact the real situation is vastly worse now than when he was writing. My usual question is: Given that criminal agencies and organizations CAN’T AND WON’T be deleted, how do we set up competing forces? My usual answer is…
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Be careful what you wish for
When RFK jr started organizing around the vaccines, I was instantly suspicious. As I repeated endlessly, vax is a proper part of public health, while strangulation and imprisonment are proper parts of war and crime and mass murder. When you see a Good Part / Bad Part separation, it means the Bad Part is going…
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More wasted energy
Rehashing from a few weeks ago: = = = = = START REHASH: What the world needs now is NOT love, sweet or otherwise. The real tragedy of the bitcoin/NFT/DAO crap is identical to the real tragedy of the hippie crap. Both were motivated by youthful idealism, and both ruthlessly exploited the idealism to gain…
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Parkinson, not cheating
Via UncommonDescent, suspicion falls on the work of a Nobel-winner in genetics. Several research articles co-authored by Nobel-prizewinning geneticist Gregg Semenza are being investigated by publishers after internet sleuths raised concerns about the integrity of images in the papers. Journals have already retracted, corrected or expressed concerns about 17 papers over the past decade, and…
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