Speaking of Thiel and Shannon....
Speaking of Thiel questions, and things I didn't know, here's a fine example.

Economist Matt Stoller narrates how we lost our industry and our country to China, leaving only the rich alive.

It was a two-sided pincer movement as always. I didn't know about the other side.

The obvious side was the Friedman twins, Milton and Thomas. Share Value is the universe. Products and factories and workers must be exterminated.

The official opposition was the Consumer Rights Movement, which said that low prices are the only thing in the universe. How do you get low prices? China.

I wasn't aware of this movement, but it fits the pattern. Deepstate always runs "two" "opposites". One side pleased the rich fuckheads, the other side pleased the consumers. BOTH AGREED that production should stop. BOTH AGREED that SKILL is irrelevant. BOTH AGREED that humans have no purpose except enriching the rich.

The consumer pincer evolved into MMT and the web's fake 'everything for free'. These movements tell us that we shouldn't have to pay for anything, which REALLY means that we're worthless and disposable. When you're not a source of money for business, you're NOT NEEDED by business.

Thanks, Stoller! You told me something I truly didn't know, and it's a non-trivial consequential piece of information.

Incidentally, I paid for value by subscribing to Stoller's Substack. It doesn't look especially interesting, but one Shannon fact is worth plenty. Also, Substack itself has SO FAR avoided censoring unfashionable opinions, which makes it worth supporting FOR NOW.

Also incidentally: Before the web, dissidents communicated through obscure newsletters, generally mimeographed or Varityped. Substack seems to recognize this historical resonance. Each of its writers has a newsletter, not a blog or a webzine.

Labels: Aberree, MMT, NOW I SEE, Shared Lie, skill-estate

  ¶ 6:13 AM

  Copyright violates natural law
Convective counterintuitive thought:

If you want to leave a legacy, don't copyright your work.

After previous item on Aberree and astrology, I was thinking again about Alphia Hart's uniquely CONFIDENT view of copyright:

Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff -- and that there may come a time when you'll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we can't produce new copy for The ABERREE, The ABERREE ceases to exist, because we're certain no one wants to read tomorrow what we said yesterday and today.

I reached a similar conclusion a long time ago in making courseware. The restrictions of 'digital rights' get stricter and more tangled every year, but they don't bother me because I have CONFIDENCE in my own ability to produce new images and animations.

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Despite his probably fake modesty, Hart did leave a legacy. His work is still eminently worth reading 60 years later.

BUT: If he had copyrighted his work, or even failed to EXPLICITLY turn off the copyright, his legacy would be GONE.

Thanks to recent anti-Hubbard types who found the collection and scanned and uploaded it, all of Hart's work is readable. If he hadn't made a point of turning off the copyright, those blessed preservers couldn't have done their job, and his work would be lost.

A similar situation exists in the recordings of old-time radio. The obscure syndicated shows are better preserved and more available than the big network shows. Why? Because the networks still exist, so a copyright could be enforced. This makes it possible for one of the OTR vendors to play copyright troll games, forcing the other vendors and the free service at Archive.org to delete items it wants to sell. Even though the one trollish vendor has no inheritance rights to the recordings, the potential of a copyright makes the big network shows harder to find and hear. And because they're less widely distributed, they're likely to disappear when that one trollish vendor goes out of business.

A much more important application of this principle was already operating at the time when those radio shows were made. Local stations and small syndicates and small civic orchestras were able to play live music as long as it was classical. Modern copyrighted music could only be played by networks who had enough money to pay the royalties. THEREFORE: Classical music has been performed and enjoyed and remembered much more widely than modern copyrighted music.

We have a dense and constantly performed legacy from composers who worked before copyright laws. Similarly with literature and visual art.

Not everything is great, but some work that was considered trash when written has been appreciated later because it was PRESERVED in some form. PRESERVED work can be revived and re-judged.

When the work is copyrighted, it has much less chance of being preserved and reprinted or replayed, no matter how good or mediocre it is.

Natural law and Sharia law agree: Use it or lose it. Everything in nature is meant to be useful, meant to serve. Copyright prevents use, so copyright guarantees loss.

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Later addition: I was forgetting one specialized but important form of loss. Forgetting is peculiar because I've personally experienced this form!

When a publisher owns exclusive copyright, the publisher may go bankrupt or merge, or it may simply decide to stop selling the item. At that point there's no automatic procedure to revert the item to public domain, or to return it to the author's possession. Sometimes a revert contract is written, but big corporations don't obey laws. They can and will prevent ANYONE from using the material, even though they're not using the material either. Total and permanent loss.

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See also storage vs JIT.

Labels: Aberree, From rights to duties, Natural law = Sharia law, skill-estate, storage

  ¶ 10:43 PM

  Opening the doors again
Speaking of Fairness Doctrine in science, here's an unusually fair historical piece from Physics Today. It treats unfashionable views and unfashionable cultures with fairness and respect.

I've been lobbying for a return to astrology as science. This article goes even farther, pointing out that astrology did a good job of predicting weather for hundreds of years.

Astrometeorology was developed by Islamic scientists, then picked up by Euros in the 1400s and developed farther. Almanacs continued to mix planetary patterns and seasons, and some may still do it.

Islamicate astrometeorologists were the first to replace the ancient practice of observing only short-term signs, such as clouds and the flight of birds, to predict weather. They based their action on the hypothesis that weather is caused by the movements of planets and mediated by regional and seasonal climate conditions. Improved calculations of planetary orbits and updated geographical and meteorological information made the new science possible and compelling.

The prospect of acquiring reliable weather forecasts, closely linked to predictions of coming trends in human health and agricultural production, made the new meteorology attractive in Christian Europe too. Considerable pride shines through medieval Christian accounts of the weather questions that they could now start to answer. Central among them was one that classical meteorologists had failed to figure out: How can weather vary so much from one year to the next when the seasons are caused by regular, repeating patterns produced by Earth’s spherical shape and its interactions with the Sun?

How did it work? Some of the details are lost, but:

Astrometeorologists noted that the angular relationships between planets were important for determining their mutual effects. Planets facing one another across the zodiac were negatively related; an angle of 45° was also problematic and likely to produce an atmospheric disturbance. However, planets at 60° or 120° would interact more positively and produce more moderate weather. When planets were close together, the intensity of their effects would increase depending on the natures and placements of the planets involved.

In other words, plain old vector algebra.

One phrase caught my eye:

The techniques in al-Kindi’s method required that forecasters confidently judge which factors would have the greatest effects and for how long, and they accepted that experience was crucial in making a successful prediction. Experts put their trusted methods on record for the benefit of others. Especially influential was al-Kindi’s application of the concept known as “opening of the doors.” The treatises do not explain the phrase, but it hints that rain was caused by an almost physical change in the atmosphere, driven by specific combinations of planets and their movements in relation to one another.

Opening of the doors.

Here's the Ridhwan clock, designed by and for those Islamic forecasters, combining science with religion and entertainment. By some descriptions, the upper dial rotated seasonally to show the current arrangement of constellations. I didn't try to animate that part.



Each hour opened a door revealing the number of the hour. The 12 houses behind the doors may have dispensed something to the priests or people. (The balls transferred to the birds were stacked up like a vending machine, so similar devices for the little houses would have been possible.)



Happystar appropriately illustrates.

HOW did planetary position control our weather? The astrometeorologists were correct given the state of their knowledge:

Astrologers believed that the planets and the fixed stars, including those making up the constellations to which the houses of the zodiac were linked, had special affinities with individual elements and qualities. Those qualities determined the nature of the effects each planet would have on the terrestrial world as it moved through the heavens.

Affinities with elements = magnetic field. The planets pull and shape the field of the entire solar system, giving it a different 3D graph of intensities and declinations for each configuration. As the earth passes through this field, the intensities influence the distribution of heat in our core, cause static fields through the dynamo effect, and influence bacteria in the clouds and nematodes in the soil. Not mysterious or metaphysical, unless you're a follower of the modern astrology that attributes all long-term weather to OrangeTrumpQanon Witch Carbon.

Labels: 2000=1000, Aberree, Carbon Cult, Entertainment, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 12:59 PM

  Aberree on Astrologee
Previous item on reanimating real astrology reminded me that Alphia Hart had written or featured some articles on the theme.

A few years ago I spent considerable time on Alphia Hart, the Enid-based universal dissident**. Hart published the Aberree from 1954 to 1965, initially as a gathering point for anti-Hubbard types, later expanding into other areas of unconventional thinking. Hart tried to favor genuinely unconventional views derived from objective or subjective Nature, avoiding the false flags of his era. He didn't always succeed, but he did a better job than anyone else.

This remarkably sane and perceptive article was written by Burt Essex. I've cut it down some.

Astrology has been a makeshift science. It has hobbled along on less than half its required factors for centuries, and to this day carries with it the assorted crutches and props devised thru the years to shore up its shaky foundations. The foundation has been there all along but much of it undetected, and the house of astrology has meanwhile strayed off into thin air.

As practiced by the Babylonians and Egyptians, it was already thousands of years in decadence, which is the opinion of our most outstanding archeologists based on the ceiling drawings in the tombs of Seti and Senmut, and with the many years of study I have devoted to the subject, I heartily agree.

Back in the time of the Babylonians and Egyptians, and up until only 400 years ago, only five planets in the solar system were known and used in astrological computations. We now have nine sighted planets and two more are tightly computed by this writer after 25 years of patient observation.

There are 12 divisions of the zodiac, with 12 discernible patterns of human behavior. Stop and think what would happen to an equation in algebra or trigonometry if 12 factors were necessary to arrive at an accurate solution and you had only five or six, or maybe seven, factors. To be sure, you might get an answer but it most certainly would not be more than mishmash and a virtually worthless solution.

This is exactly the position astrology has been in for the last 4,000 years. Those who studied the effects of the planets that were known found there was a correlation in human affairs, but for lack of all the basic factors, namely, all the planets of the solar system, their resulting analyses could only be guesses colored by the general knowledge of the one attempting astrology without all the factors necessary to arrive at accurate analyses quickly fell into the hands of mystics and promoters of various religions. The Bible is loaded with allusions to astrological data. Down thru the centuries this decadent astrology was used as a prop for religion and has so confused people that it is now virtually impossible to separate astrology from religious or, worse, socalled 'spiritual' connotations. Another contributing factor is that religion usually tries to imbue into its adherents the trust in their particular concept of God (or gods) to guide them in everyday affairs.

Astrology, with its seven (and even now with nine) planets, has also purported to give guidance to its devotees. This places the person exposed to both in a dilemma. The Church has solved this several times by banishing astrology, with justification. The astrologer today, with nine planets, can give some guidance of value in a broad and general way. The individual seeking such guidance, however, should be reminded that the details and daily decisions must be made from inner guidance.

It is from failure that the truly great things in one's life are learned and not by asking an astrologer for a life program that would include trivialities such as when to have one's hair done. It is before the undertaking of action that is to have long-range effect, e. g. the conceiving of a child, the beginning of a corporation, the forming of a partnership, business or marital, that astrology is of great value as by this means one can look ahead at future possibilities before casting the die.

Says it all. I'd only add the other "variables" outside the visual spectrum, like magnetic and electrostatic fields.

Footnote 1: The tribute site Aberree.com is still there but hasn't been maintained in a long time, and the scans of pages have been degraded to blurry thumbnails by the storage server. Fortunately the OCR for this page in the very last 1965 issue worked pretty well.

** Footnote 2: It's worth remembering yet again that Hart had to set up his own printing press and typesetting machine to get his message out. Modern dissidents have a HUGE variety of outlets, mostly free. Spoiled moderns are bitching because SOME outlets choose not to carry their material, which is called EDITING, and bitching because SOME outlets don't want to pay the dissidents for material that won't bring in profit for the outlet, which is called NORMAL BUSINESS.

Labels: 2000=1000, Aberree

  ¶ 12:43 AM

  Value reflects killcount
Uncommon Descent reports that some of Darwin's handwritten notebooks are missing and presumed stolen from the British National Museum. The notebooks are "worth millions".

UD snarkily proposes that the books must have randomly mutated away from the museum, since an assumption of theft would imply PURPOSE.

I found the value more interesting. Would notebooks from Wheatstone or Ohm be equally valuable? I doubt it.

Among document collectors, valuation tends to reflect the aristocracy of the subject. Rarity is also a factor, but a rare document by a peasant, or a document connected to peasants, has no value.

For instance, a rare 1930 advertising brochure for Duesenberg is much more expensive than a rare 1930 brochure for Chevy. The product belongs to rich people, so everything related to the product has value.

When I was building a replica of Hubbard's E-Meter, I looked on Ebay for books by the inventor Volney Mathison. His books were up in the $500 range. Similar vaguely mystical self-help books by non-Hubbard authors were in the $10 range.

All books and documents related to Hubbard's cult are unduly expensive. Why? Because Hubbard's cultists are rich and important people.

The same rule applies to Darwin. His cultists are rich and important people. True from the start, because DarwinISM has always been a weapon used by the rich to kill the poor.

Value reflects killcount.

Labels: Aberree

  ¶ 5:40 AM

  Good advice, stupid reasons
Birzer at Imaginative Conservative recommends pulling away from social media and big tech as much as possible without losing function and employment. Unquestionably good and necessary advice. Every minute spent on social media is intended to create fear and depression. Even the writers and aggregators on the "good" side need clicks, and they create clicks by generating fear and panic. It's unavoidable.

Birzer goes badly astray when he tries to analyze the basis of the current tyranny. He properly rejects Orwell's pure state-centered dystopia, then improperly rejects Huxley's corporate dystopia and accepts Bradbury's idea that the tyranny comes from the masses.

Again, what matters so critically in these passages is that the tyranny comes from the demands of the Masses, not from the central government. In Bradbury’s understanding, the government might very well be wicked and evil, but it would always follow the lead of the Masses and become their tool, rather than the other way around.

Throughout his career, Bradbury spoke bravely and openly against “political correctness,” recognizing it for the evil and the tyranny it is. In 1953, it was against Joseph McCarthy. “Whether or not my ideas on censorship via the fire department will be old hat by this time next week, I dare not predict,” he wrote, but “when the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.”

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO.

Deepstate NEVER follows the masses. Deepstate tells the masses what to do and what to say and where to protest, then "follows" the protests that agree with Deepstate's desires. The "opposite" side of the protests, also generated by Deepstate, gives Deepstate a way to identify and exterminate dissidents and "terrorists".

This is extremely well-known by everyone who has been part of the protests at any time from 1968 to now. It was also true of the "anti-slavery" protesters in 1860.

McCarthy was NOT representing the masses. He was representing Roy Cohn, the deep dark heart of the blackmail branch of Deepstate. Trump was ALSO trained and created by the very same Roy Cohn with the very same flavor and purpose. If Bradbury didn't understand this, he was a fool who isn't worth following. More likely he did understand it and was part of the tyranny. If he had been an actual dissident, he couldn't have been published at all. The fact that he was published and got rich from his books, and his books were taught in schools, tells you ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

More subtly, some of Birzer's advice may also be flawed. The "alternative" media, if they're big enough to make a splash, are not alternative. They're just another way for Deepstate to identify "terrorists". They certainly don't do a better job of preserving privacy, as I verified with Parler. It's better to stick with the big names, use them sparingly and carefully, and avoid cellphones entirely. Small fish in big pond is just naturally harder to detect than big fish in small pond.

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Footnote: McCarthy was dangerous, but NOT for the standard reasons. His lists exposed Soviet spies and "unfairly" tarnished "noble liberals". CIA already knew the real spies and knew how to work with them to avoid KGB eruptions, and KGB knew how to work with our real spies to avoid CIA eruptions. Real spies are playing an old and well-ordered game that preserves peace when it works properly. Exposing some of the real spies meant that KGB would have to send new spies who weren't already known, thus costing CIA extra effort. But that wasn't the serious problem. McCarthy was mainly dangerous because those "noble liberals" were Deepstate's FAKE Soviet agents who were obliterating American culture and civilization while blaming the destruction on Russia. That's why he needed to be discredited and Unpersoned.

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Later thought: Generating fear and panic is universal among media on all "sides". The aggregators on the skeptic side often exaggerate the lockdowns, or make it sound like the lockdown is getting stricter when it's actually getting slightly looser. (Lockdowns should not exist AT ALL, but that doesn't justify misstating the changes.) Because the governments are trying to destroy truth and logic, skeptics should feel an obligation to get the facts RIGHT, not overstating or understating reality.

Why doesn't anyone try to get clicks by making you FEEL HAPPY AND CONFIDENT? Other types of business do. Food sells because it tastes good, not because it makes you feel sick. Cars sell because they make you feel masterful while driving, not because they make you feel weak and endangered. American media in previous decades included some fear-makers, but mainly sold empathy and confidence and respect and real education. Where did these motives go? Surely the same method would work now. People haven't changed, and our appetite for empathy is vastly larger now because NOBODY is trying to satisfy it.

Labels: Aberree, From rights to duties, malign misattribution

  ¶ 5:20 AM

  Multifocal fuckhead
Article by Godwin, the writer of Godwin's Law.

He's been around the net since the BBS/USENET days, and he's been a lawyer dealing with net cases most of that time.

He says he used to be pure libertarian, but now he's starting to believe that more controls are needed because the WRONG SORT OF PEOPLE are using freedom. RUSSIAN_MEDDLING can't be allowed to MALIGN_BEHAVIOR the web, and of course non-Sorosians need to be EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE. Individual Liberty requires it. Individual Liberty means Soros owns everything.

Here's one focus of idiocy:

Another thing we clearly got wrong is how large platforms would rise to dominate their markets—even though they never received the kind of bespoke regulated-monopoly partnership with governments that, generations before, the telephone companies had received. In most of today’s democracies, Google dominates search and Facebook dominates social media. In less-democratic nations, counterpart platforms—like Baidu and Weibo in China or VK in Russia—dominate their respective markets, but their relationships with the relevant governments are cozier, so their market-dominant status isn’t surprising.

Nonsense. Google was a government contractor from the start. Long before the web, big tech companies were primarily government contractors. It started in 1946 and it was already obvious in 1960 when Ike talked about it.

Second focus of idiocy:

Alternatively, as in this 2019 piece by Matt Schruers, the newly appointed president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, it’s sometimes called “the moderator’s dilemma,” where opposing incentives lead either to the suppression of viewpoint diversity or to websites “plagued with off-topic content, trolling, and abuse.”

One reason we need to keep Section 230 safe—a reason I didn’t have the foresight to champion back in the 1990s—is that it’s crucial to fighting disinformation: It allows internet platforms to curate their content without necessarily increasing liability.

Platforms have always curated content. It's called publishing. Publishers have always worked within the constraints of liability for real harm. Publishers didn't need Section 230. Moderating specialized forums has always been a hard job. Do you kick out the asshole who really knows his stuff but can't stop lording it over others? Or do you stay loose and keep the asshole's valuable knowledge while losing some newbies? Alphia Hart discussed it often in his 1950's anti-Hubbard magazine Aberree. Editors of radio hobbyist newsletters discussed it in the '30s. It's just part of the job. No easy solution.

Third focus of idiocy:

I remain skeptical as to whether tactics like microtargeting and demographic profiling, whether used by political campaigns or foreign governments, are as effective at manipulating people as some critics fear, but I see nothing wrong with using legal and policy tools to stop malicious actors from trying to use these tools.

Nothing new about profiling. It's called knowing your customers. Scammers have always done the best job of knowing their customers. The post office and Ma Bell always made efforts to stop scammers, though it was easier with mail. Also, in previous decades media tried to educate people about the techniques of scammers. Now that our entire "economy" is mobs and rackets, nobody wants to train the suckers.

But Godwin isn't talking about scammers when he says MALICIOUS ACTORS. The keyword means only one thing. Surprise surprise surprise.

I still believe that, but here in 2020 I’m also haunted by the challenges we face everywhere in the world in this century, ranging from climate change to income inequality to the (not-unrelated) resurgence of populist xenophobia and even genocidal movements.

Freedom is fine as long as the free people are 100% SorosThought. Any entity that is not 100% SorosThought is MALICIOUS_ACTOR MALIGN_BEHAVIOR and must be EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE.



The only genocidal movements are on your side, fuckhead. Greta is explicitly and joyfully genocidal.

Is Godwin just an idiot, or is he an AP? I'm inclined toward idiot. The centralizing nature of the web was perfectly clear in the '80s. NSA was the central node, and NSA developed the web for its own ends, not for "liberty". The other problems have been around long before the web, and didn't inspire "libertarians" to favor total censorship.

Meta-Godwins-Law left as exercise for reader.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Aberree, Carbon Cult, malign misattribution, Sorosia

  ¶ 11:05 PM

  Same point, higher plane
Peter Van Buren has a WONDERFUL ARTICLE on human capital at TAC. Both "sides" assume that we SHOULDN'T rebuild our industries, both assume that only banks and Silicon Valley can exist. Both tell us that steelmakers must be retrained as programmers. Van Buren gets the BIG POINT mostly right:

Education doesn't create jobs. Jobs create the need for education.

A simpler version is more accurate:

Education doesn't create jobs. Jobs are education.

I've been trying to make this point forever.

Time to reprint a recent item that approaches the point on a somewhat higher plane, emphasizing the advantages of a skill acquired through experience.

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Reviewing Alphia Hart's view of copyright, which was unique in 1954:

Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff--and that there may come a time when you'll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we can't produce new copy for The ABERREE, The ABERREE ceases to exist, because we're certain no one wants to read tomorrow what we said yesterday and today.

I reached a similar conclusion a long time ago in making courseware. The restrictions of 'digital rights' get stricter and more tangled every year, but they don't bother me because I have CONFIDENCE in my own ability to produce new images and animations.

Good example today. The text needed an illustration but the appropriate figure isn't there in the text itself. Using someone else's illustration is theft, and under the newer stringency even copying my own previous finished product is "theft".

One alternative is to buy a commercially produced model which comes with all the required regulations and licensing. I checked Zygote.com, the default provider of anatomical models. They have the item I want, priced at

SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS.

JESUS! Instant decision. I rolled my own. Just about done, and it turned out better than I expected; looks better than most of the illustrations, and it can be wiggled and adjusted, which the rigid $1600 model** can't do.

= = = = =

Hart is speaking in terms of capital. You shouldn't steal someone else's work, and you shouldn't have to fall back on your own saved work either. The PURPOSE of having talents and skills and tools is to MAKE THINGS.

Sharia is transcendently clear on this point. We are agents of God, here for the sole purpose of turning death to life, which means transforming chaos into order and beauty. The same rule applies to all forms of capital. Money, property, intellectual, and human. Don't hoard. Keep enough to get through droughts and bad times, but beyond that you must USE the capital to MAKE MORE LIFE.

Money should be used to employ workers. Property should be used to grow crops or build factories. Intellect should be used to invent. Human capital (families, employees, servants) shouldn't be kept around as ornaments to increase your status, but must be put to constructive use making more people and households and services and stuff.

This is the basis of the rule against interest. Paying interest on savings discourages creative use of capital, and charging interest on loans creates false "value" without creating any new order or life.

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** This is parallel to GenRad's pricing of acoustic measuring equipment. A simple sound level meter that would normally bring about $300 is priced at $3500. Medical graphics and sound meters are sometimes used by expert witnesses in a trial. When you buy them at these prices you're mainly paying a retainer to the company's lawyers to help you defend the accuracy of the product. And that's also why the $1600 model is rigid. Verifiable calibration.


= = = = = END REPRINT.

Labels: Aberree, Natural law = Sharia law, skill-estate

  ¶ 10:46 PM

  Aberree vs Disnee again
Continuing from yesterday's discussion of good management vs tech-monster management of a digital storefront...

The item I ordered brings up a separate topic. For clarity, this item was made long before the current GOOD management of the storefront, so it has ZERO connection to them.

The item is a scene of an old saloon. It includes several OBJs and several textures that are unquestionably derived from my free work posted at ShareCG. I knew about the derivation a long time ago, so this is old news.

Did I buy the item in order to start litigation? No, the exact opposite. I bought the item to use for my own enjoyment, because the artist ADDED VALUE. He added some of his own pieces, creating a scene that pleases my tastes by definition because it reflects my tastes. I could have built this scene, but I never got around to it, so it's worth paying a few bucks to let the other artist build it.

This attitude clashes with the modern Disney notion of copyright, but it harmonizes with Alphia Hart's idea of copyright.

= = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT:

Hart's view of copyright was unique in 1954:

Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff -- and that there may come a time when you'll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we can't produce new copy for The ABERREE, The ABERREE ceases to exist, because we're certain no one wants to read tomorrow what we said yesterday and today.

I reached a similar conclusion a long time ago in making courseware. The restrictions of 'digital rights' get stricter and more tangled every year, but they don't bother me because I have CONFIDENCE in my own ability to produce new images and animations.

Framing it as "rights" to duties: The newer Disney versions of copyright law show the insanity of "inherent rights" more perfectly than other applications. In this dyslogical delusion, every "creative" product has the "inherent right" to be held and sold. When everything is automatically "protected" without any form of registration or payment for title, raw force is the only determinant of title. In plain reality, the Disney law gives total freedom to the mafia with the largest army of consiglieri, which mysteriously and astonishingly turns out to be Disney.

When you start with the GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY to create order and value, the selling is secondary. You can try to sell your created products for money, and customers can buy them. You can't transfer the DUTY OF CREATION to a publisher because the publisher didn't create the item. You can pay the publisher to disseminate your product, or you can persuade the publisher to bet on your product, splitting the profit by negotiation. The publisher is not the owner, it's just providing a service for you.

This is parallel to the sharia paradigm of capitalism, which STRONGLY encourages you to USE your capital instead of hoarding it. Land should be USED for growing crops. Money should be USED to make products for people to USE. Skill should be USED to invent and develop more products and services for others to USE.

= = = = = END PARTIAL REPRINT.

Now I know that this is also parallel to the Soviet notion of copyright as embodied in the inventor certificate. The IP belongs to the state, which will use it for the benefit of the people; but the inventor gets public and permanent recognition plus some of the profits, and doesn't have to bankrupt himself fighting a Disney-style mafia corporation which is guaranteed to win in the end.

Labels: Aberree, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law

  ¶ 12:57 AM

  Thiel's question
Via MindMatters.

How would you respond if PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel asked you his favorite interview question: “Tell me something that’s true that almost nobody agrees with you on.”

I'd been thinking along similar lines lately. Not exactly true-but-nobody-agrees; more like true-but-nobody-knows.

There are four things I've figured out in recent years that nobody else seems to have figured out. Two are big, two are tiny.

Big 1: Rights vs duties, Paine vs Morris. This probably fits the Thiel question, since many others have examined the subject and reached the opposite conclusion.

Big 2: Broadly the whole subject of real-value economics and skill-estate. Specifically the FACT that GDP and growth are precisely backwards from real value-added measurements. Leftist economists have approached the question but haven't hit the specific point.

Tiny bit of history: Cave Gas. I've been modeling these Lost Places for quite a while. Cave Gas is the only one that nobody else has documented.

Tiny bit of science: Hubbard's E-Meter. I examined the original schematic and noticed that it's not a passive meter but an active stimulator. Then I built the original schematic and proved it, rather painfully.

The last one is most important by my standards because it was an EXPERIMENT.

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Sidenote for clarity and credit: The above list includes things I've discovered on my own. The most important thing I've learned from others in recent years, which seems to be unnoticed by anyone else, is the sucker filter. A brilliant observation that explains many otherwise mysterious events. I wish I could remember who wrote about it!

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Later sidenote: Thiel has been revealed as a Deepstate monster, but the question is still good. Smart is smart no matter who says it, stupid is stupid no matter who says it.

= = = = =

Added more of these items here.

Labels: Aberree, Carver, From rights to duties, skill-estate, Sucker Filter

  ¶ 8:41 AM

  Patient DXers, patient roofs
The indispensable American Radio History has uploaded 50 YEARS of biweekly newsletters from the National Radio Club, a BCB DX club based in Buffalo.

The publisher's address looked residential, so I got curious and Googlestreeted it. I hoped to see a forest of antennas. Nope, the original publisher must have died, BUT:



Can you guess which house was running a business for 50 years that involved lots of radios and a VariTyper and a Multilith press? Three phases, and the first two don't count.

As I slid through that neighborhood trying to spot the exact address, I also answered a question that has bothered me for a long time. How does Buffalo deal with 100 inches of snow every year? We never see reports of disasters. All of the houses in the neighborhood were built in the '20s, all have solid and straight roofs and gutters. You can't reach those roofs with a rake. So the roofs are holding up with minimum attention.

What's the secret? Turns out to be the same thing I observed in Spokane a few years ago.

Steep roofs with occupied attics. Cape Cod.

Modern writers insist that you need PERFECT INSULATION and a COLD ROOF to avoid ice dams. Nope, the old builders found the correct answer by EXPERIENCE. A warm steep roof melts the snow almost immediately, so it doesn't get loaded down and doesn't form dams.

And for a perfect contrast, Tesla's all-theory idiocy, which by a neat coincidence is "manufactured" in Buffalo.

Later, more from the NRC newsletters: Though based in the northeast, two of their main correspondents were in familiar spots. Their TV editor was in Ponca. At that time Ponca had a hard time picking up the TV stations in Tulsa and OKC, so everyone with a TV needed a good antenna. All TV was DX. Another regular correspondent was in Spokane, right in this neighborhood. His house was near the cliff with a clear view to the south, and most of his DX was from the south.

Labels: Aberree, Asked and answered, Patient things

  ¶ 6:00 AM

  Wrong kind of coding
A pretty good modern version of the Declaration of Independence by Larry Sanger, the disgruntled cofounder of Wikipedia.

The League of Disgruntled Cofounders should get together and make something happen. Most of the tech companies were taken over at some point by imperial monsters like Zuckerberg and Elon, leaving the originals unhappy with the change.

But this declaration misses ALL the necessary points.

1. Dissidents aren't common. The people who WANT to express independent opinions, and CAN express them coherently, have always been in the 3% range. 97% are happy to read what everyone else reads and say what everyone else says. 97% emphatically includes all popular and attractive people, by simple logic.

2. Before the net, dissidents understood that you can't expect the enemy's newspapers to publish your articles for free, and you CERTAINLY can't expect the enemy's newspapers to PAY you for publishing your articles. Modern dissidents expect Youtube to PAY them for articles that Youtube doesn't like. This is crazy. Earlier dissidents had their own printing presses or personal 'networks'. The latter is harder now because even the landline phone system is monitored by NSA. But a mouth-to-ear whisper network or a hand-to-hand Morse network is still possible.

3. Independence means independence. If you want to get away from NSA, you have to PHYSICALLY disconnect from NSA. This declaration talks about 'coding' but it DOESN'T talk about printing presses or shortwave or hand-to-hand communication or visual semaphore chains or clock codes or book codes.

4. Without physical disconnection, no amount of 'coding' will give you independence.

Labels: Aberree, From rights to duties, Morsenet of Things

  ¶ 10:34 PM

  Aberree vs SAT
I added this 1951 episode of This Is Your FBI to my bedtime playlist. I hadn't heard this episode in several years. Between the first hearing and today's hearing, I had spent time studying the Aberree, learning about the early history of the Hubbard Cult. Now I can see that the episode is unquestionably talking about Hubbard.

The Aberree was published from 1954 to 1964, providing a printed voice for Hubbard refugees and dissidents. According to various articles, FBI was curious about Hubbard at the start, because Hubbard seemed to be opposing many of FBI's pet fake-"Russian" projects. FBI instigated and penetrated in the usual way, but lost interest after realizing that Hubbardites were NYC, not Deplorables. FBI's job is to defend NYC from humans.

This episode is unique in tone and structure. It's the only episode where Special Agent Taylor is shown having a private life, and the only episode where Special Agent Taylor is reluctant to bring the full weight of FBI into a problem. Normally he finds a way to fit the problem into FBI's fake "limitations". In this case he resists, even though the situation clearly demands FBI action.

= = = = =

Synopsis:

One of Special Agent Taylor's friends, while trying to make time with a girl, realizes the girl lives in a strange situation. As he gets to know her better, he finds that the situation is the Astral Control Cult, which strictly regulates the friendships of its members. As an outsider, he is cut off from the girl. The friend approaches Agent Taylor, who is uncharacteristically unhelpful.

Friend: I went there, and they wouldn't let me in. A zombie in a long white gown gave me some doubletalk about rules. Said Mary was in seclusion.

Special Agent Taylor: What does that mean?

Friend: I don't know. I get the feeling Mary is being held against her will.

SAT: Well Bruce, this is 1951.

Friend: Jim, can you help me?

SAT: [Ironic tone] Suuuure. I keep a white charger in the garage. The minute a fair damsel gets in distress, I whip out my trusty suit of armor.

Friend: Can't you help?

SAT: [Lecturing tone] Look. The constitution allows people to worship a matchbox if they want to. She can study Astral Control, voodooism, or whatever she likes.

Friend: You sound like you don't care.

SAT: It's not that. You see, the FBI has jurisdiction over 127 "laws". None of them cover religious cults as such.

= = = = =

Because every episode needs to end with a dramatic arrest, SAT eventually finds out that the cult leader is using the slaves to steal stuff. He arrests the leaders for theft.

Given the timeline and the description, this is clearly the Hubbard cult; and the hands-off attitude also fits the timeline. FBI seemed to be signaling Hubbard that he was safe.

Note specifically that held against her will, the prima facie definition of kidnapping, receives only scorn from SAT. Kidnapping is normally the TOP PRIORITY among those 127 "laws" that FBI handles.

Other cults have experienced, shall we say, a more hands-on attitude from FBI. Christian cults are highly flammable and bombable. 1993 provided a controlled experiment. The Branch Davidians and the Church Universal Triumphant were similar cults, both gathering guns and building bunkers. Koresh was nominally Christian, CUT was literally Astral Control. Koresh was destroyed, CUT was ignored.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Aberree

  ¶ 1:18 AM

  Thanks Ralph 127, Atypical ? No! Yes! edition
Via ZH:

On the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, a cruise ship belonging to the Church of Scientology has been quarantined after a case of measles turned up on board, according to the NYT.

Several high profile Scientologists have spoken out against vaccines in the past, despite the church saying it “takes no position one way or the other on [the] issue".

Is this a new or atypical tendency? Nope.

A quick search of the Aberree shows several diatribes against vaccination from Hubbardite writers in the '50s. This isn't new or atypical.

Here's part of a diatribe from 1957:





As with similar modern diatribes, there's a LOT of truth in the major point about public health and Big Pharma profit. BUT: Vaccination was KNOWN TO WORK long before Big Pharma came along, and vaccination STILL WORKS.

It's genuinely hard to separate this one exception from the major rule, but we have to separate it if we want to survive.

Time to make a special version of my HA HA HA image.

Labels: Aberree, Emersonian justice

  ¶ 5:00 PM

  Rare sharp clarity 2
Another wonderfully clear article. This is not about the basics of plants and animals. It's an objective scientific analysis of a Troll Army defending one subspecies within the Bitcoin fraud against other subspecies within the Bitcoin fraud.

Is this activity new? Did Twitter and FB invent the concept of troll armies? NOT AT ALL.

The Aberree described a similar battle among subspecies within the Hubbard fraud, way back in 1955. The physical communication was via mass mailings and newsletters and meetings instead of Twitter, but the 'troop movements' and strategies and verbal weapons and lawsuit weapons were the same.

The Aberree was the newsletter for one subspecies, but Alphia Hart had the rare ability to stand back and observe all sides objectively, including his own side.

Labels: Aberree

  ¶ 12:53 AM

  Bots not as hot as thot
Chris Irons (QTR) did an interesting long interview with Aaron Smith-Levin, one of the new generation of Hubbard survivors. Lots of juicy details about the newer form of Hubbardism, which is ALMOST as loony as US/EU elites. I didn't think that was possible. Hubbard has secret paramilitary bases, unknown to the ordinary members. Heretics are often banished to a distant base and never heard from again.

Irons has been doing research on Hubbard for a long time, from a general fascination with cultish behavior. Understanding cults helps to see through the hype of MLM and tech-monsters like Elon.

Smith-Levin was born into the cult and got out, which qualifies him to speak from experience. But he didn't seem to know much about the e-meter, treating it as pure 'magic' stagecraft. Neither of them seemed to know about the earlier Hubbard skeptics like Alphia Hart.

Might be useful to note in this connection that I experimented with the original e-meter circuit and found that it was an ACTIVE input to the nervous system, not just a passive indicator. Perhaps the newer digital versions are more meter-like with passive inputs, but the original would have been something like an electrical drug with dosage controlled by the 'auditor'. It was not just stagecraft.

Irons and Smith-Levin anticipated a heavy bot-like negative response to their Youtube interview, but so far it's not showing up. I see 14 likes / 2 dislikes, and the comments are the usual stock-trader stuff, not hardass cult action. (The hardass action nowadays comes in response to Tesla skeptics, not Hubbard skeptics.) When I ran the Aberree pieces last year, I also anticipated a storm of negative links, but again nothing happened.

Conclusion: Hubbardism still rigidly controls its members but it no longer exerts much power on the outer world.

Come to think of it, this same failed expectation applies to ALL advertised bots, such as "Russian" and "Persian" bots. Bots are simply the new version of the old '50s "subversives". The subversives who are advertised, the subversives we're warned about, are minor or nonexistent. The real bots and subversives are sponsored by Deepstate and NOT advertised.

Labels: Aberree

  ¶ 1:32 AM

  Reprint
More and more "independents" are getting shut down because they were INSUFFICIENTLY PARANOID. They might have talked about Deepstate but they clearly didn't think Deepstate existed. Now they're finding out.

Some of them are facing barrages of lawsuits from individual rich satans who have Deepstate on their side. Others are losing the servers that they RENTED from satanic corporations.

Semi-reprint from a few months ago:

If you want to be a powerful independent voice, you need your own separate platform. This was true in the era of printing presses and still true now. The only difference is that we have forgotten the truth!

An editor who wanted to counter the establishment paper didn't expect to rent the big paper's presses and Linotypes. He knew that renting would limit his freedom. He bought his own press and equipment.

He certainly didn't expect the big paper to PAY him for using their press. Modern "independents" are shocked when Youtube stops PAYING them for using Youtube's equipment. This is just silly.

The Aberree is an excellent example. In 1954 Alphia Hart wanted to edit a periodical to counter the Hubbard cult and discuss related subjects in the 'spiritualist' camp. He knew in advance that he wouldn't be able to rent the services of the Enid News-n-Eagle or Cromwell Press. He knew they wouldn't touch the subject. Partly because it was uncool, mostly because Hubbard sued anyone who questioned his cult. No business wants to stand in front of a bulldozer. So Hart bought a mimeograph, rented a storefront, and got up and running. He later upgraded his equipment after he was making a bit of money. He was then able to make more money by printing and mailing material for other independent thinkers.

When government starts to shut things down OFFICIALLY, there's no solution. But so far that isn't happening. So far the campaign is lawsuits by individual rich fuckheads and collective action by the corporate branch of Deepstate. The solution to this threat is the same as Hart's defense against Hubbard's lawsuit machine. Have your own press or servers in your own building.

Labels: Aberree, defensible spaces, defensible times

  ¶ 7:32 AM

  Wrong kind of math
The Tesla skeptics are trying to readjust this morning after Elon provided an obviously contrived "accounting" report that jacked up the share value even more more more more more.

Where did the numbers go wrong?

Your numbers didn't go wrong. You're just using the wrong kind of analysis. You're trying to analyze a cult with business methods.

Cults don't function by logic or numbers.

Religion is the difference between Elon and the earlier tech-scammers I mentioned.

Most cults have a money-making side, selling prayer cloths or running theme parks, but the business is treated as a sideline, not the central purpose of the church. Hubbard's cult is the closest parallel in terms of mixing tech and religion, but still not a good analogy. Hubbard didn't tie a share-based business to his cult, didn't claim to be producing anything except power and knowledge for the members. Elon has mixed tech and religion and business into a truly new monstrosity.

Labels: Aberree

  ¶ 10:59 AM

  Updating isn't always bad....
I'm constantly smashing the modern Github mode that forces constant continuous updates, leaving no room for thinking and processing and plain old life.

I need to remind myself that machines and ideas do OCCASIONALLY deserve updates. When new facts are observed, some ideas can benefit by incorporating the new facts. When new manufacturing methods or materials are developed, the devices that use those materials and methods can benefit by bringing in the new. These changes need to be SLOW AND CAREFUL. Both ideas and devices need a few years to test and phase in a major new development.

Some things never need updating. Natural Law, dealing with morality and economics, was determined by thousands of years of do-or-die experimentation. There is no new genetic material since Natural Law was settled, so Natural Law doesn't need revision.

Convective thought:

It's unfortunate that astrology didn't get updated in the 1840s when magnetism was systematically understood. Astrology is based on a limited set of observations about gravitational fields, expanded and rigidified into a system that has one or two good functions and a lot of crap.

If astrology had been updated to include magnetic and electrostatic fields, we'd have a much better tool for understanding natural changes like climate, and behavioral changes in humans. It's clear that the changing geomagnetic field, linked solidly with the changing solar magnetic field, is solely responsible for climate.



Madame Polisztra illustrates a Magnetic Zodiac.

Astro-scale magnetic fields also affect the functioning of our brains, in ways that are not yet understood. Neurologists in the 1840s were starting to explore magnetic effects, but their discipline was derailed around 1900 when Freud and pharma kicked out all other modes of treatment. This branch of science returned around 1980 and is making fast progress, but it could have been 100 years farther up the timeline if the pill-pushers hadn't tinfoiled it.

= = = = =

Types of magnets and inductors (not all shown in Madame Polisztra's diagram) immediately suggest personality types. Air-core, iron-core, variac, tapped, bar, resonant, permanent, superconductive, three-phase, transformer, relay, load coil ....

Labels: 1901, Aberree, Carbon Cult, Grand Blueprint, Natural law = Sharia law

  ¶ 3:45 AM

  Three-way stop
Headline on research from Cardiff:

Mathematicians calculate the safest way home

Subhead indicates it's an app to improve pedestrian safety.

Wow! That's for me! I've always been a walker, and for the last 25 years I've lived without a car. Anything that keeps me out of bad neighborhoods and prevents me from being squashed by SUVs is a good idea! Wow!

Reading the article: SHIT. This is wrong in every possible way.

Wrong #1: They aren't talking about bad neighborhoods because "scientists" aren't allowed to discuss bad neighborhoods. The idea of bad neighborhoods is a NO-GO ZONE for a "science" "brain", especially in Britain.

Wrong #2:

The computer algorithm takes into account a number of factors, such as the types and number of crossings, the type of street, the possibility of jaywalking and the speed limits of each road in a given area. The scoring is done automatically by simply feeding in the raw data from a map of any given area, and has been tested on 15 cities in the UK

This doesn't catch the important factors for pedestrian safety. A busy intersection can be relatively safe if both streets are one-way, or if there's a good standable median. When you only have to watch one direction at a time, you can predict car behavior. An unbusy four-way stop is the most dangerous situation because cars are jumpy and opportunistic. An asshole in a hurry will roar through the stop at 60.

Every intersection has its own personality. The map won't tell you these things. Only direct experience can tell you.

Wrong #3: It's a fucking app! If you're paying attention to your cellular thingamajig you AREN'T paying attention to the world. This goes for bad neighborhoods as well as cars. Safety starts with FULL ATTENTION.

I'm 100% certain that none of these "scientists" are walkers. If they had the EXPERIENCE of walking, they wouldn't have started this absurdity.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES, THEORY KILLS.

= = = = =

Expanding on the theme of ATTENTION, triggered by this typical Tesla cultist quoted in one of the Tesla anticult sites:

Just bought a new @Tesla ! Love the car but within 24 hours I reversed into a car parking post which the car sensors did not pick up and now I have to wait over a month to repair with an authorised Tesla body shop !! Come on @elonmusk you need to sort out your customer service !

Two cadenzas:

1. Kudos to the Tesla anti-cultists, who are doing a beautiful job. Compare this to the similar Hubbard cult, which had only ONE obscure anti-cultist for many years. That would be, of course, Alphia Hart in Enid.

2. "A parking post which the car sensors did not pick up." This clearly reflects the same ANTI-ATTENTION mode of thinking as the above researchers. You're not supposed to LOOK and LISTEN via your OWN SENSORS. You're only allowed to trust the sensors provided by Apple or Tesla, monitored and controlled by NSA. Your own eyes, connected unhackably and unmonitorably to your own cerebellum, must be disconnected.



Back in the pre-NSA days, Polistra was using her own eyes to detect the presence or absence of a hazard, with some added assistance from the MECHANICAL sensor driving the light and bell in the warning sign. The warning sign was NOT controlling the Bantam's brakes and steering. Her own hands and feet were controlling the Bantam's brakes and steering. She was NOT letting her Bantam judge the presence of a train via its Wi-Fi connection to Elon's branch of NSA.

Labels: Aberree, defensible spaces, Morsenet of Things

  ¶ 12:38 AM