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Friday Tidbits
Home, sick. (As opposed to “Home, working’). Currently in that ‘can’t do much yet, can’t sleep any more, either’ phase. So, a few bored Friday afternoon tidbits over a slowly-eaten hard boiled egg. Looks like both Antarctica and the Sahara are “greening”. One due to general warming, the other due to unusual changes in rainfall Continue reading
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Wacky Schemes
RFK Jr, Kennedy scion, friend to Billionaires, would-be Election Spoiler and future Trivial Pursuit question apparently had a wacky scheme to jam up voting machines in Wisconsin by forcing the State to cover his name on the ballot with stickers. Stickers which would then gum up the voting machines, with the ensuing hilarity somehow leading Continue reading
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“Plastics!”
One word, kid… “Plastics!” Gene Wolfe in 1988, putting on his Engineer Hat with this rather prescient thought… Wolfe: There are more than two paths we can head down. I feel both optimistic and pessimistic about what we’ve been doing with technology. As you say, it has already been used to produce both wonderful and Continue reading
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The Precipice Year: 2024
I really don’t want to end up writing long form political posts all the time. In fact, I deeply resent having to spend so much time following politics, at all. I dream of an America with a boring, boring Politics. But, in this era of the ‘Industrial Disinformation Complex’, one kind of has to become Continue reading
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King Elmo Go Boom.
I’ve held off a bit noting the Starship Launch Failure. Wanted to give the news a little time to settle. Even with his now-weakened Reality Distortion Field, King Elmo still gets special treatment by the press. The tech aspects are covered in depth elsewhere, but so far the basic knowns are: Basically the 30+ engine Continue reading
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