They were already doing it!
I've been wondering why the Cancelled profs and scholars didn't get together and form a new university devoted to non-cancellation.

Turns out they've been working on it for a year, and waited until it was solid to announce it publicly.

Now it's solid. The Univ of Austin includes ALL the famous Cancelled profs plus quite a few others who have been disgusted by the wokesters.

Some of the recent quits like Boghossian knew where they were going.

Looks like they're immediately aiming to train leaders and entrepreneurs. Physical subjects are several years down the timeline, and not definite yet.

The president is moving directly from the presidency of St Johns College in Maryland, so he knows the job. Presidents of small colleges have exactly ONE job: bringing in money. In the article announcing the founding, he gets right down to dollars and cents...

At our most prestigious schools, the primary incentive is to function as finishing school for the national and global elite. Amidst the brick and ivy, these students entertain ever-more-inaccessible theories while often just blocks away their neighbors figure out how to scratch out a living.

The priority at most other institutions is simply to avoid financial collapse. They are in a desperate contest to attract a dwindling number of students, who are less and less capable of paying skyrocketing tuition. Over the last three decades, the cost of a degree from a four-year private college has nearly doubled; the cost of a degree from a public university has nearly tripled. The nation’s students owe $1.7 trillion in loans.

And to what end? Nearly 40% of those who pursue a college degree do not attain one. We should let that sink in. Higher education fails 4 in 10 of its students. A system that so brazenly extracts so much from so many without delivering on its basic promises is overdue for a reckoning.

ON THE FUCKING DOT. This is the main problem, vastly larger and older than the Wokesters. Entirely aside from politics, tenure has steered academia into narrower and narrower bands of subspecialties, with less and less substantial learning and more bizarre delusional theories. Only a few professions actually benefit from the process, and even those professions would be better off with less orthodoxy.

I see three inadequate points in their FAQ.

1. They're seeking accreditation, which is a powerful force toward orthodoxy. The accrediting agencies expect maximum Wokitude.

2. I don't see a commitment to avoid tenure. After tenure gets up and running, there's no escape from ever-narrowing orthodoxy.

3. I don't see a Trinity House motivation loop. If they simply invite the right kind of students, the wrong kind of students WILL get in and ruin the setup. Stings and APs have plenty of Deepstate money, and know how to manipulate the system.

Maintaining an unorthodox purpose against the headwinds of Parkinson bureaucracy and accrediting agencies requires a more specific feedback loop of money for value. Trinity House, working for safe navigation, has been funded by ships safely reaching port, and it has maintained its purpose for 500 years. Funding for this university needs to depend on students safely reaching the port of independent thinking. How? I don't know, but I'm sure the TWO-WAY OBLIGATION is necessary.

Later, after looking at more details... there are some pure Deepstaters in the founding crowd, like Peter Singer and Larry Summers and Strossen of ACLU. The whole thing could be just another fake front.

Labels: Equipoise, Parkinson, Trinity House

  ¶ 5:28 AM

  One possible way to restore empathy?
Weizenbaum's clarity about the mechanistic and psychopathic mode of modern thought led back to an earlier point of inflection.

Among the radio detective and cop shows around 1950, there's a sharp dividing line between the empathetic and the mechanistic. The big network shows, following Deepstate's new 1946 guidelines, focus on the rigorous mechanical nature of "law", which of course doesn't exist. The cops operate strictly by all rules, giving victims no choice. After you report a crime to the cops, the rest is all SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE. The shows go into great detail on the processing of ink and paper in forgery cases, or the analysis of chemicals in arson. It's all SCIENCE and no HUMAN.

The older shows, especially the low-budget syndicated or regional shows, are much more human. Detective Browning in the Chicago-based 'Calling All Detectives' ignores chemical analysis. He tries to align and adjust the rules to achieve the best, or least-awful, result for his client. In blackmail cases he tries to help the client realize that exposure is usually less awful than perpetual payment and entrapment.

I was thinking along similar lines a few months ago.....

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Another point came up in the '60s when profs were being fired for "political" reasons. My father explained that "political" reasons were usually a cover story for plain old dislike. In a bureaucracy the department head can't write down "I don't like him" or "We don't get along" on an official document. The department head can write down "Communist agitation" or "Trumptard insurrection", according to the fashion of the era.

Isms and ideologies don't matter. Caste matters, and innate personality matters.

I forgot this lesson in the '90s when I got lost in the ideological fake battle of neocons vs RadicalIslamicTerrorists. I regained it in 2011 when I threw away the TV.

The point became EXTREMELY SHARP in 2020, when all governors but one, all national presidents but one, and all mayors and Public Death Officers without exception, acted in holocaustal unison. At first I tried to map the isms onto the pattern, but the isms didn't fit.

Isms don't count. "Laws" and "constitutions" don't exist. The only thing that matters is GUTS.

Strong demons will kill forever when given the opportunity. 2020 gave them the opportunity. Weak demons will kill for a while then get bored. A few non-demonic leaders who had the courage to resist blackmail and extortion were able to break out of the monstrosity and save their people from mass murder.

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A vague Trinity House type thought.... What about the non-demons who didn't resist? There's no way to fight blackmail with blackmail. The Deepstate and Epstein blackmail networks have been building their cadres and structures and skills for 120 years. They own everything that counts. We can't overwhelm them with superior blackmail force. Failing that, is there a way to give non-demonic leaders more GUTS? A Mutual Benefit Association to check out the specific threats and open them up in a way that neutralizes the force? Most threats are empty or fake. The real ones are generally not worth losing your soul to maintain silence. This Association wouldn't need to be especially large or rich, but it would need to be located out of country.

Continuing later and even vaguer: MBAs were the ancestor of insurers. Before insurers were totally corrupted by Share Value, they were motivated by profit to give good advice. Insurers understood real risks in fine detail, and knew how to avoid them.

Insurers also paid only the largest and most serious claims, which motivated the customers to do their own risk controls. Balance and equipoise.

Life insurers advised customers how to live longer. Theft insurers evaluated collectibles to spot forgeries, and advised owners on burglar alarms and security. Fire insurers tried to prevent obvious fire hazards.

This blackmail insurer would function the same way. It would understand the real risks of shame and exposure, and would advise customers that it's usually better to take some shame than to lose your soul and life by obeying criminals. (Handling only the most serious claims.) It would also evaluate the threats for forgeries, as mentioned above.

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Still seems like a pretty good idea.

Labels: Jail mode, Trinity House

  ¶ 3:27 PM

  Reprint on Trinity House
I linked this in previous item. Feels like time for a reprint....

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Continuing on the theme of Trinity House, the guardian of true beacons and true science. Trinity has been running for 500 years without ever losing its sidereal focus. We need to build a new Trinity House.



With Trinity funding, Marconi used South Foreland lighthouse on the White Cliffs for his experiments with radio.



Here's a look at Marconi's transmitter in one of the wings of Foreland, based loosely on a few pics and diagrams.



There are three pieces. Two are derived from telegraphs and clocks, one is new for wireless. I'm not showing the connecting wires here to avoid confusion.



On the left, batteries provide low voltage with high current to the primary of the Transformer.

A transformer works by expanding and contracting the magnetic field. As the primary builds up, its field pushes through the windings of the secondary, developing a current in each turn. If the secondary has more turns than the primary, the output will have higher voltage.

In order to keep the field rising and falling, the Hammerbreak (more familiarly buzzer) operates by negative feedback like a clock pendulum. It begins with a closed switch, causing the magnet to charge up. As the field strengthens, it pulls the Hammer in toward the magnet, opening the switch. As the field collapses, it allows the Hammer to fall back toward the contact, closing again. The inertia of the field and the inertia of the Hammer maintain a steady frequency.

The high voltage AC from the secondary terminals goes directly to the Leyden Jars (capacitors) which are connected by another inductor. The spark is maintained by the high voltage from the secondary. A spark generates a wide range of frequencies. The capacitors tend to shunt the higher frequencies toward ground, and the inductor shorts out the lower frequencies, leaving only the middle frequencies undamped. This form of resonator (a pi-section tank) is still used on transmitters in the tube and transistor eras.

Here I've added the wires in somewhat schematic form. The key breaks the circuit between the batteries and the primary, and the Hammerbreak also breaks the circuit much faster while the key is down. The high voltage secondary goes directly to the spark gap, where the capacitors and inductor narrow down the frequency; then the somewhat tuned output goes up to the antenna.



Finally, the whole thing in operation.



Inventions don't come from theories. Like all parts of life, inventions come from PURPOSES. Inherent dreams and wishes, or perceived needs. Wireless was a perpetual dream, first documented around 300 BC. It had to wait for a long series of materials and techniques, evolved through clocks and telegraphs. None of this development came from theories. Some useful theories came from the development.

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Footnote on Marconi, since I normally avoid the Great Names. In some ways he was similar to our tech IPO founders. Young, fairly wealthy, extroverted and charismatic. Other industry founders at the same time were older. The Great Names in the auto industry were around 40 when they founded their eponymous companies. They had already established a career in bicycles or carriages or locomotives. But Marconi was distinctly different from Zuck and Bezos and Elon. He was modest and cautious, always building on previous experience and crediting previous experience. In other words he was an engineer, not a stock scammer.

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Labels: Trinity House

  ¶ 8:34 PM

  Still missing the same point about alien talk
From MindMatters yet again.

The other question is, in a universe governed by the same principles of logic, mathematics, physics, and chemistry throughout, it should be possible for intelligent entities to somehow find a way of making contact. The fact that those principles of math and physics can be described abstractly at all seems to show that we do not live in a meaningless universe. Thus, in principle, there is meaning that we — and ET — should be able to find.

If extraterrestrial intelligences exist and want to communicate, it will be the same meaning. They won’t have a different “logic” or “mathematics” because they can’t.

No, no, no. Logic and math are irrelevant and unnecessary.

When we are communicating via radio waves, there is a guaranteed set of commonalities. We don't know anything about the aliens, but we know how their receiver works, and they know how our transmitter works. There are only two basic ways to create and receive electromagnetic waves. Nature does it one way, and human technology does it the other way.

Nature alters the static field by moving ions in neurons or tissue. Human tech alters the magnetic field by moving electrons in wires.

We know several of Nature's methods. Radio fish simply extend the axons of neurons out of the body in an antenna, with its length tuned to match the impedance of the mud they live in. Flowers transfer ions into petals to send a message to bees, then pull back the ions after the bees have grabbed the pollen.

Nature did it WITHOUT USING MATH, and the first humans to send and receive radio were doing it with minimal math. Mostly by trial and error, expanding in directions that seem to work, steering away from directions that don't seem to work. FEEDBACK IS LIFE.

So, as I've been saying repeatedly, the communication should be ABOUT the communication. Describe the circuits and antennas in a two-dimensional pattern that can be scanned after the receiving intelligence realizes the scanning freq.



This is how radio hams communicate across cultural barriers, especially when censors are listening. Humor and politics and religion aren't easily understood, and may be deadly. Antenna lengths and circuits can be understood by everyone in the circle.

HOWEVER! Considering that I've been repeating this message for years in the tiny single-culture circle of a few blogs, and nobody has heard it yet, I doubt that we have any chance of communicating to mysterious aliens.

Labels: AI point-missing, infinite STUPID, Real World Math, Trinity House

  ¶ 7:47 PM

  Edmund Berkeley on Parkinson
From an article in Computers and Automation, Sept 73, p 6 of the PDF.

He's discussing Establishments in the broadest sense.

From my study of and experience with establishments, I believe the following natural laws apply:

• Because an establishment develops to perform a function, usually at the outset it performs the function very well, and so it derives a great deal of its strength from its belief in the "obvious" importance and worthwhileness of its function.

• As an establishment ages over the years, it tends to become more and more blind and bureaucratic in its behavior.

• An establishment develops fashions, fads, and mythology such as the "national security" blanket; the "peace with honor" hoax; etc.

• An establishment will not willingly tolerate truth that puts it in an unfavorable light.

• An establishment is a kind of system, and therefore should be made subject to all the laws for the proper functioning of systems, INCLUDING FEEDBACK CONTROL.

In other words, for nearly all the years that an establishment is in existence, the correction and modification of that establishment by applying truth to it is vitally necessary.

Here is another reason why those persons who are now ca!led "computer professionals" need to concern themselves with truth, in great variety and on many levels. Information processing is really important only if you are dealing with the truth.

Unfortunately it didn't happen. The total transition from analog to digital removed feedback from the technical understanding of the profession. Share Value removed feedback from the economic side of the business. Epstein removed facts and truth.

The economic end would probably be easiest to fix, by restoring profit to business and restoring the profit MOTIVE to establishments and governments. Ideally an establishment should gain money by SOLVING problems, not by UNSOLVING problems. I've been discussing this fix in the Trinity House theme.

Labels: Parkinson, Trinity House

  ¶ 11:43 PM

  Fractional-reserve criming
Another random connection, this time spawned by an accidental juxtaposition of two Quora questions.

First question: How do banks print money?

Under the fractional-reserve setup, a bank creates money every time it gives a loan. The loaned value didn't exist before. Printing has been disconnected from money creation for more than a hundred years. Long before digital, the vast majority of money moved as checks and ledger entries.

Second question: Do you approve of stings?

Seeing this question immediately after the first question led to a connection.

The vast majority of stings are designed to CREATE criminals who didn't exist before. A sting sets up an easy opportunity to commit a crime, which wouldn’t happen in real life. The victim isn’t strongly inclined toward crime in real life, but the invitation is too tempting to resist.

So a sting or an agent provocateur is fractional-reserve criming.

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I've discussed real-value economies at length before. In a real-value economy, the total amount of value circulating is directly tied to the amount of real PRODUCED value. The Soviet system created more money in response to the value-added tax. When food is grown or cars are manufactured or cars are repaired, new currency is inserted into the economy to keep the currency unit constant. Loans are rare, and loans don't affect the money total.

A real-value court system works the other way. It tries to REMOVE criminal value from circulation. It distinguishes between professional criminals and opportunistic lawbreakers, and keeps the professionals out of circulation forever. Executions or life sentences are equally appropriate, but the life sentence sometimes provides a chance for the professional to be a productive citizen inside the walls, where he can't create new criminals.

In this 2017 item I was suggesting a Trinity House approach to crime, based on the profit motive of insurers. Definitely parallel to the Soviet VAT approach to currency.

Labels: Jail mode, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law=Soviet law, Trinity House

  ¶ 2:41 PM

  Not replication, just dumb
Is this another Replication Crisis? Not exactly.

From Buzzfeed, seen at UD.

Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.

According to the 2012 paper, when people signed an honesty declaration at the beginning of a form, rather than the end, they were less likely to lie. A seemingly cheap and effective method to fight fraud, it was adopted by at least one insurance company, tested by government agencies around the world, and taught to corporate executives. It made a splash among academics, who cited it in their own research more than 400 times.

That leaves Ariely, who confirmed that he alone was in touch with the insurance company that ran the test with its customers and provided him with the data. But he insisted that he was innocent, implying it was the company that was responsible. “I can see why it is tempting to think that I had something to do with creating the data in a fraudulent way,” he told BuzzFeed News. “I can see why it would be tempting to jump to that conclusion, but I didn’t.” According to correspondence reviewed by BuzzFeed News, Ariely has said that the company he partnered with was the Hartford...

Sounds like Ariely is naive and unrealistic, not dishonest.

The academic side of “social” “science” has been disconnected from reality since 1910 or so. Insurers and marketers have been running real experiments with a real profit motive, so their own findings about behavior and motivation are accurate. Insurers have learned how to judge honesty from BILLIONS of real experiments.

Scenario: When Ariely asked Hartford to run this little study, Hartford ACCURATELY JUDGED that Ariely was both influential and naive. They figured that his “results” might lead competing companies to adopt a counterproductive way of judging honesty, thus giving Hartford a competitive advantage. And their little meta-experiment worked. "At least one other insurer" did adopt the dumb trick.

This brings us back to the Trinity House theme. Trinity House WAS the insurer, so its own funding of science was motivated toward realism and honesty through a direct feedback loop. If better foghorns or better radio communication helped to keep a ship from crashing, the ship would reach harbor safely and Trinity House would receive a fee for keeping the ship safe.

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Semi-relevant sidenote: Trinity House was developed to catch and eliminate Wreckers, criminals who built false beacons to lead ships onto the rocks so the criminals could loot the wreck. The interesting interactive radio show 'Calling All Detectives' had one episode about a modern Wrecker.

Labels: Trinity House

  ¶ 10:33 PM

  Rereading Percy
Walker Percy's Love In The Ruins is the best prophetic dystopia for our age. The novel was written in 1971, much later than Orwell and Huxley, so some of the social prophecies aren't especially prophetic.

Percy includes a lot of 'woke' and 'cancel' shit, which would look prophetic if you weren't in academia in the '70s. In fact all of this shit has infected academia for exactly 1000 years, and today's version isn't much worse than the '70s.

Oddly for a non-tech writer, his tech predictions are more prophetic than his social observations. He shows Barack and Michelle Obama driving a Toyota electric car, and the apocalypse is induced by cellphones working for NSA. On the dot.

The plot pivots on the 'trial' of old Mr Ives, in the form of a Grand Rounds theater in a medical school. Mr Ives has been resisting 'care' and 'wellness' in a nursing home. Ives has been digging in the nursing home grounds, claiming to be looking for the Fountain of Youth. Obvious evidence of dementia.

The 'trial' is aimed at sending Ives off to the Happy Isle Separation Center, ie the gas chamber. The Percy character is trying to get Ives released from the nursing home entirely. He uses his brain-influencing cellphone to loosen up Ives's tacit stubbornness, and Ives starts telling his actual story. He is an amateur archeologist, studying old native artifacts and languages. After he was committed to the nursing home, he figured out that a certain relic was likely to be under the grounds of the nursing home. He dug it up and used it as a Rosetta stone to decipher a previously uncrackable ancient language. The Percy character wins the case, but the novel immediately rambles off into the apocalyptic chaos generated by the cellphones. So we don't find out what happens to Mr Ives.

My previous rereading of the book was 10 years ago. At that time the character of Mr Ives resonated strongly, but I didn't see the precise prediction of eugenics aimed at oldsters. Now we're there. Goddess Greta ordered the world to Kill Granny, and the entire world obeyed in mechanical unison.

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Last week's forced 'wellness' appointment in the medical torture chamber echoed Mr Ives. I was tacitly resistant, knowing full well that anything I said would be used against me. Afterward the clinic sent a brief note of the visit as standard procedure. Along with the weight and blood pressure and test results, the note said

Pt expressed dissatisfaction at being required to be here.

Well, that's accurate. Pt actually said "Just write the prescription and let me get out of here." But if Pt had been anywhere but the Star Chamber, Pt would have expressed considerably more than dissatisfaction. Pt has been expressing RAGE in this blog.

During 2020, Pt has been frantically engaged in amateur science, doing real experiments and animating old machines and places as a form of spiritual warfare. Pt has been sending out prayers to show the PROPER use of science as entertainment and improvement, trying to jam the overmodulated signals from SCIENCE AS GOD OF WAR AND GENOCIDE.

Pt performed one real experiment a few years earlier that actually fits the novel. The Percy character invented a portable brain analyzer. His satanic assistant Art Immelmann, who works for "considerably higher than FBI", modified the analyzer into a brain controller.

In 2018 Pt built a replica of Hubbard's original E-meter, which was billed as an analyzer. Pt proved that it was actually a controller, generating a panic response in Pt's body. Pt was SCARED SHITLESS and immediately disassembled the project.

Was Percy thinking of Hubbard? It's possible, considering that Hubbard's cult was at its peak in the '70s. MANY rich and famous fuckheads were Hubbard robots. One reviewer mentions that Percy used Hubbardites as characters in other books.

Labels: #WholeOfSociety, Entertainment, Trinity House

  ¶ 7:03 AM

  Extreme honesty about science
A former editor of British Medical Journal says plainly:

It's time to assume that all health research is fraudulent unless proved otherwise.

The author has been keeping track of the situation for a long time, watching it get worse and worse.

The commenters are insiders, and offer more HARDASS honesty and insight.

One brings up a point I hadn't considered:

Do note that creating incentives to uncover fraudulent research will be incentives to falsely frame genuine research as being fraudulent (which I consider at least as bad, if not worse). There is really no escaping in the current system - you can try to address some of the symptoms, but you cannot change people's behavioural patterns.

It's time to do for research what FDR did for banks. Shut down and sort out.

We need a year-long LOCKDOWN of all research. Not just medical research, ALL ALL ALL ALL research.

None of it is necessary.

A very few projects are aimed at solving real problems. The vast vast vast majority is aimed at CREATING problems and killing people.

During the year-long pause, sort out the good from the bad. Carefully resume the dozen or so useful projects, using a Trinity House approach, via a mutual insurance structure.



Each project must bring in a profit by saving lives. The funder charges a fee to the companies that benefit from increased and improved lives. Any project that doesn't actually save actual lives will be cancelled forever.

Labels: immodest and imperative proposal, Trinity House

  ¶ 8:47 AM

  Metrology Day 2021
Metrology Day again. A year ago I wrote:

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Polistra always marks Metrology Day. Most of the time she just repeats an old item about WWV.

This year the subject was INFINITELY more important than ever before. The whole world (except Sweden and Belarus) committed a TOTAL HOLOCAUST based on INFINITE VIOLATIONS OF ALL RULES OF MEASUREMENT.

Starting with two items on Jan 25, pretty much everything in this column has been devoted to the HYPERINSANE HYPERDEMONIC INFINITE INFINITE VIOLATIONS OF ALL LAWS OF MORALITY AND SCIENCE by the infinitely satanic holocausters of nearly all countries. No point in repeating those here.

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I was partly wrong about Sweden and Belarus. They were free at that time, but both later converged to the norm. Only Tanzania remained truly free from start to finish.

Since then I've continued to turn out a barrage of 'backfires', trying to assert real science and real measurement in several ways, and trying to make a little beauty when possible.

Now I'm just tired and weary. The bang is ending with a whimper, as always, and we will never learn the truth, as always, and we will never get any explanations or apologies, as always, and there will never be any justice or Nuremberg Trials, as always. The joyous psychopaths will rest from their year-long orgasm, the surviving humans will try to rest and recover, and then the next STOMP will happen in unison when we're least expecting it.

Medieval.

Labels: 2000=1000, Jail mode, Metrology, Trinity House

  ¶ 6:55 AM

  Astrometeorology 3: from static Ferguson to magnetic Kepler
Picking up from previous post on James Ferguson.

Previously I showed a couple of science entertainments using static fields to drive gadgets. Ferguson's main focus was orreries or planet simulators.

He began with another static-driven toy:



From the top:



In action:



A simple orrery, not intended to be accurate, using 'electrical spray' to drive the earth and sun. Each pivot represented a center of gravity, and a pointed pin on each concentrated the overcharge and let it spray, like a reaction rocket.

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Now I'll use Ferguson's real orrery as a branching point to a larger topic. (In later parts I'll return and use the orrery for more specific conjunctions and oppositions.)



This is a geocentric orrery unlike most modern types. The earth is the central pivot, and the sun and planets orbit around it. The mechanism is driven by a clockwork motor in the can under the sun.

Running through a year in fast motion:



And the same from above with other stuff cleared out, showing only the planets:



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Detour into determinism vs freewill.

There's no way to figure out which is ultimately right. Most indications tend toward determinism in most things. We may have freedom of decision in small things, but negative feedback should pull us back toward natural law.

Islam says that since we can't know the real combination for sure, we have to assume determinism.

Christians were totally for freewill, and the Endarkenment of the 1700s got SERIOUS about freewill, (see "rights") in order to give full range to the Innovative Disruptive psychopaths of the French Terror.

Assuming determinism leads to a happier and healthier culture. If you know how things are supposed to run, you can detect departures from Natural Law and steer back into the lane. If you don't resonate with a natural pattern, you're vulnerable to every new monstrosity. As we see now.

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Back to astronomy:

Islam picked up astronomy from the Greeks around 800 AD, and refined it tremendously, always aiming to know the will of the universe by reading the patterns of planets and stars.

When Euros came back to astronomy in the 1500s, they picked up the Islamic work and resumed along the same lines. Early astronomers were purely astrologers in the modern sense.

Kepler was interested in the stars for useful purposes. He designed a system of weather prediction, and was also thinking about human influences.

He explained the motivation for his work:

A most unfailing experience of the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.

The excitement of sublunary natures includes everything that happens on earth.

At that point in history astrology WAS a science in the precise sense. Astrologers observed and measured star and planet positions in order to predict weather and cultural changes. Other scientists observed and measured the positions and shapes of electrostatic fields and magnetic fields. Others observed and measured the positions of small physical objects in order to predict and build engines and mousetraps. Same practices, same methods, same focus on USEFUL RESULTS.

Nature is lawful. Nature is determined. If we can figure out the laws, we can use them reliably.

At that point in history, astronomy on its own was ENTERTAINMENT. If you just wanted to see the stars and paint pictures of them, you were having fun, not trying to do useful work.

The two purposes FLIPPED, by a mysterious and accidental coincidence, at the same time as the French terror. Robespierre and Marat needed to abolish all beacons, all external influences and predictive laws, so they could be perfectly FREE to destroy minds and culture and people. So they declared purposeful science to be "unorthodox science" and banned it.

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And back to Ferguson's geocentric orrery.

Holding the earth steady makes it easier to chart and visualize how planetary angles cause sublunary influences. In a heliocentric model everything is moving, so it's much harder to see.

The interplanetary magnetic field is shaped by the motions and magnetic pulls of all the planets. For the sake of modeling, I've drawn the magnetic field as a surface below the planets. Venus has a positive pull and Mars has a negative pull. This corresponds to one Kepler-derived scheme of planetary influence, attributing raininess to Venus and dryness to Mars.

When Venus and Mars are in opposition across Earth, a sharp gradient is formed:



When Venus and Mars are more distant and off-angle, there's no particular gradient around earth, so no particular influence:



This field does a good job of modeling the influences found by Kepler and his followers through experiment and observation.

What's the mechanism? The interplanetary field shapes long-term weather patterns in two ways, one definite and the other speculative.

1. Definite: The field directly moves and shapes our semi-liquid iron core, which moves heat into different areas of the globe. The icecaps are melting FROM BELOW, not from above. The Gulf Stream is being redirected FROM BELOW, not by the atmosphere.

2. Speculative: Bacteria and other plankton are magnet-driven. They navigate by the declination of the field, riding a declination line up or down. When the declination lines change, as they are doing now, bacteria move in different ways, redistributing shade and photosynthesis and nutrition in the ocean. Think Nino/Nina.

The magnetic field shapes human behavior in two ways, both speculative.

1. Our cerebellum has an antenna for electromagnetic fields. We don't do a lot of navigating, but we respond in unknown ways to changes in the planet-scale field. When it's stronger, we may be more synchronized and harmonious. When it's weaker, we have less guidance. As now.

2. Bacteria again. Our digestion is performed by bacteria, which are presumably responsive to magnetic fields like the ocean bacteria. When the field weakens or strengthens, they will behave accordingly. Right now the earth's field is weaker, which means the bacteria are confused and sluggish. See Obesity.

The next part will dig into the Islamic approach in more detail.

Labels: Entertainment, Natural law = Sharia law, Trinity House

  ¶ 6:40 AM

  Two metaphors
The fast-changing brief side effects of the Moderna vaccine reminded me of two things.

1. Seriously, Room 101/Github.

2. Non-seriously... Once in the 80s I was dogsitting for a friend who was traveling. Her dog was an elderly French Bulldog named Beau, short for Colonel Beauregard. Beau liked beer, so I tried letting him lick a spoonful of beer from my hand while I was drinking.

Beau ran through the stages of human intoxication in fast motion, scaled to his small body and small brain. Calm, affectionate, staggering, fighting, asleep, all in 5 minutes.

These 'effects' are running through a typical flu episode in fast motion. A vaccine is a scale model of a virus, so this makes sense.

I checked Quora just after writing the above, and received a pile of items about small dogs. The Internet Knows Everything.

Labels: Entertainment, Trinity House

  ¶ 4:37 AM

  Why the focus?
Calibrating: Why am I focusing so much on the Roman church? I've never been a member, so its internal doings are really none of my business.

Rome is uniquely positioned to oppose tyranny. Despite decades of decline it's still rich and tightly hierarchical, and it's a global empire that crosses national boundaries. It thus has the same quality of power as Amazon and Google, including the power skills of secrecy and blackmail.

In this holocaust, many of the harshest and most brutal nations are Catholic, so the church would be especially vital in those nations. Instead, the church eagerly collaborates in its own destruction, along with the mass murder of the people.

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In non-Roman places the best opposer should have been small businesses, organized in a union across national boundaries. Small business is the ECONOMIC TARGET of the holocausters everywhere. Amazon and other giants are benefitting massively from the lockdowns, and the lockdowns are most persistent in places where Amazon and Apple control the government. Many small and medium businesses, formerly competing with Amazon, have been killed. The skills of their employees are now lost.

A hundred years ago, farmers had a national organization that served their interests. The Grange was a Mutual Benefit Association with 'lodges' in every small town. Small businesses have never had a Grange-like MBA. Some of them have lobbying groups, but the lobbyists are part of the DC establishment and thus serve DC first. O'Sullivan.

Speaking of the power of Google... Immediately after writing the above I got bored and checked Quora. First question on top:



Note the time. Somebody or something must have generated this question "for me" as soon as I wrote about the Grange.

Labels: skill-estate, Trinity House

  ¶ 11:22 PM

  Fairness and Fraser
Eric Anderson at Evolution News lays down a new Fairness Doctrine for scientific discussion. He's writing as 'advice' to one specific scholar at Simon Fraser Univ in BC who is setting up a new institute; but clearly Anderson is advising more generally.

Similarly, don’t burden your lectures and presentations and published papers with unnecessary Darwin-speak. As Joe Friday would demand, “Just the facts ma’am.” You have great substance in the research you’re doing. Stick with that and focus on the actual observed evidence. In your next lecture, rather than saying, “We’re going to examine an amazing molecular machine that nature evolved,” just say, “We’re going to examine an amazing molecular machine found in nature.”

The FCC fairness doctrine forced this type of factual objectivity on radio for 40 years. It worked.

Was it possible to have political comedy without partisan teams? Certainly. The expert comedians of Ignorant did it all the time.

"How did you get to be so stupid?"

"Easy. First I went to Washington...."

Insults aimed at politicians were aimed at ALL POLITICIANS, not Republicans. This is JUST THE FACTS, since there is precisely no difference between D and R.

When the Fairness Doctrine was abolished, it opened the way for Deepstate to create Symmetrical Scapegoating. We insult the PEOPLE on the other team. We never insult ALL POLITICIANS. Therefore ALL POLITICIANS can now get away with mass murder. Therefore they do.

Incidentally, the target of Anderson's advice could also take some advice from Simon Fraser. He explored the area now occupied by BC. He named a river after his logbook-keeper who found the river, but he refused to name a river after himself because he wasn't convinced it was truly a separate river. He refused a knighthood and died poor. JUST THE FACTS.

Labels: epistemology, Trinity House

  ¶ 7:16 AM

  Bad part, good part
Mathematician Chaitin, discussing the decadence of science and bureaucracy:

I hope I’m wrong, but I have this vision of the life cycle of corporations and nation states. I saw what IBM was going through and a lot of people are worried that China is becoming more capitalist than we are in a funny way.

Here in South America I see US influence disappearing. China is now the leading trade partner for a lot of countries in South America rather than the United States.

Same in Africa, the bright future of science and thinking. China's colonialism is purely commercial, not cultural. We always forced our colonies to adopt our insane anti-God culture. China skips all of that crap and just deals with local farmers and factories, helping them to improve their production to maximize profit for them AND for China. That's not "capitalism in a funny way", it's CAPITALISM. What we do is TYRANNY.

...From the point of view of creativity, I think that the best thing to do would be to split up the European community in separate countries and split up the US in separate States. Because that would give more freedom of action to creative people instead of having a central bureaucracy.

The bad part: Splitting the political units won't help. It would have helped before the Web, but now the Web unites and synchronizes tyranny.

Splitting political units ain't gonna happen anyway. Everything is absolutely frozen. Nothing can change or move.

The good part: Dividing the web is INSTANTLY possible, and EVERYONE can do it for themselves. No influence or force or blackmail needed. Just disconnect as much as you can.

A new learning center (as in Trinity House) could disconnect its campus entirely, and maintain a well-policed airgap to protect its thoughts and discussions and SKILLS and intellectual property from Amazon and Google. No wi-fi on campus. Only pure analog communication allowed, through carefully protected internal wires.

Even better, replace electrical transfer of information with air modulated by sound waves in some way not yet invented. Replace HDD and RAM with some new type of memory storage that can't be hacked or modified or read remotely. Perhaps this new form of memory could use very thin sheets of flexible material, with characters formed on the surface of the sheets by some kind of pigmented gum or glue. The sheets would be compressed into rectangular data-packets, which could then be stacked or carried easily. A means of reading this memory device would also have to be invented, perhaps a rotatable video unit connected directly to the human brain and mounted inside the skull.

Labels: skill-estate, Trinity House

  ¶ 7:42 PM

  Another help
Two weeks ago I listed some old knowledge and skills that helped me to understand and survive the current holocaust.

Here's a smaller one that I missed. I specifically need to thank my father for this piece of understanding.

He didn't talk much, but when he did talk he was making a point, and it was usually a valid and important point. He sometimes discussed the maneuverings of school and college administrations. Most importantly, he taught me EARLY (1959) about the evils of the tenure system. I was able to avoid the trap.

Another point came up in the '60s when profs were being fired for "political" reasons. He explained that "political" reasons were usually a cover story for plain old dislike. In a bureaucracy the department head can't write down "I don't like him" or "We don't get along" on an official document. The department head can write down "Communist agitation" or "Trumptard insurrection", according to the fashion of the era.

Isms and ideologies don't matter. Caste matters, and innate personality matters.

I forgot this lesson in the '90s when I got lost in the ideological fake battle of neocons vs RadicalIslamicTerrorists. I regained it in 2011 when I threw away the TV.

The point became EXTREMELY SHARP in 2020, when all governors but one, all national presidents but one, and all mayors and Public Death Officers without exception, acted in holocaustal unison. At first I tried to map the isms onto the pattern, but the isms didn't fit.

Isms don't count. "Laws" and "constitutions" don't exist. The only thing that matters is GUTS.

Strong demons will kill forever when given the opportunity. 2020 gave them the opportunity. Weak demons will kill for a while then get bored. A few non-demonic leaders who had the courage to resist blackmail and extortion were able to break out of the monstrosity and save their people from mass murder.

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A vague Trinity House type thought.... What about the non-demons who didn't resist? There's no way to fight blackmail with blackmail. The Deepstate and Epstein blackmail networks have been building their cadres and structures and skills for 120 years. They own everything that counts. We can't overwhelm them with superior blackmail force. Failing that, is there a way to give non-demonic leaders more GUTS? A Mutual Benefit Association to check out the specific threats and open them up in a way that neutralizes the force? Most threats are empty or fake. The real ones are generally not worth losing your soul to maintain silence. This Association wouldn't need to be especially large or rich, but it would need to be located out of country.

Continuing later and even vaguer: MBAs were the ancestor of insurers. Before insurers were totally corrupted by Share Value, they were motivated by profit to give good advice. Insurers understood real risks in fine detail, and knew how to avoid them.

Insurers also paid only the largest and most serious claims, which motivated the customers to do their own risk controls. Balance and equipoise.

Life insurers advised customers how to live longer. Theft insurers evaluated collectibles to spot forgeries, and advised owners on burglar alarms and security. Fire insurers tried to prevent obvious fire hazards.

This blackmail insurer would function the same way. It would understand the real risks of shame and exposure, and would advise customers that it's usually better to take some shame than to lose your soul and life by obeying criminals. (Handling only the most serious claims.) It would also evaluate the threats for forgeries, as mentioned above.

Labels: Jackboot stomping forever, Jail mode, Parkinson, Trinity House

  ¶ 3:25 AM

  Location matters sometimes
Disgruntled cofounders can sometimes start a real opposition. Disgruntled Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger has started an alternative called Encyclosphere. The initial splash is unimpressive, with one important exception.

What's unimpressive? They seem to be spending a lot of time discussing and debating standards and principles, and no time at all writing and editing content. You need to start MAKING things first, then you can figure out how to EDIT and SELECT things. Until you have some material to practice and experiment on, there's no point in debating principles.

The LOCATION is impressive. It's not in DC or NYC or Frisco or even secondary tech hubs like Boston or Madison. It's headquartered in Canal Winchester, an old town that has become part of suburban Columbus without becoming suburban. Definitely a long way from the evil influences of the tech world.

Sanger is trying to break O'Sullivan's Law, which states that any organization with a central headquarters in Satan's world will succumb to the influence of Satan.

Worth watching.

I registered without having to own a cellphone. Another positive, compared to eg Parler. Requiring cellphone guarantees minimum privacy.

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Note for clarity: I don't have a big problem with Wikipedia anyway, so I don't think this is tremendously important. Wikipedia seems mostly neutral on the subjects I've seen. Maybe I'm not looking up the subjects where it's badly biased, but in any case I haven't seen serious bias. My main annoyance with Wikipedia is poor teaching and poor explanation. Too much abstraction and specialized jargon. Often a page on a scientific question is written by and for the people who already know the answer to the question. If you can read the formulas at all, you're already inside the narrow subspecialty, so you don't need the answer.

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Reading more about the foundation behind Encyclosphere, it sounds a little like Trinity House, but it's missing two crucial elements: MONEY AND MOTIVATION.

Trinity House supported science with big MONEY because Trinity House was funded by a fee charged to every ship that docked in Britain. Trinity House was MOTIVATED to spend money on USEFUL research because anything that improved the safety of navigation would increase successful dockings, and thus increase its PROFIT.

Labels: Experiential education, Trinity House

  ¶ 3:51 PM

  Skill-estate from a different angle
American Radio History has added a 1925 book on music in broadcasting by Percy Scholes.

Broadcasting was new territory in 1925, relatively unexplored. Wireless started around 1895, with the original purpose of replacing telegraph cables and emergency communication. The idea of using radio to distribute 'copies' of text and music wasn't part of the original purpose, and began outside of official circles.

Scholes understood the concept completely in '25:

The introduction of Broadcasting seems to me to be comparable with the introduction of printing. Less than five hundred years ago the Classics, the Holy Scriptures, the legends and poetry of Europe existed only in manuscript and could be studied only by the tiny class of literate men. There were no novels and no newspapers. Ideas were preached from the pulpit, and news passed from mouth to mouth. Amongst the people at large there was a literary stagnation. Then came the invention of printing. A great extension of education naturally followed, and nowadays the whole of the world's literature is open to anyone who cares to read it.

To some extent the gramophone has already done for music what printing did for literature. But Broadcasting will do far more, for it makes fine musical performance easier to come by, and dirt cheap.

Scholes on music itself, showing a clear understanding of nature vs nurture:

Music has its times of exaltation as of depression. It passes, in imaginative interpretation, through all the phases and moods of running water. It is light and sparkling as a stream on a sunlit height. It flows placidly between grassy banks and under overhanging willows in happy pastureland. Sometimes we hear it thunder among the rocks; but it may please us best when it glances softly in the moonlight. The ability to hear the message is not possessed by all, and it is the privilege of those so equipped, whether by endowment or endeavour, to lead others to a higher appreciation. Effort is involved before the significance of music is revealed, but the study is not laborious and the reward is ample.

Scholes lays down a principle that holds true for all sorts of combinations, whether music or text or work or food:

The principle of musical form is very easy to grasp. It rests on the psychological fact that fatigue comes from overmuch repetition of anything we do — whether it be chopping wood or listening to conversation. Change is a sort of repose, so that some people, exaggerating, of course, declare that "change of work is as good as a holiday."

You cannot listen forever to music. You want conversation and reading and games and other occupations as your "change." And when listening to music you cannot listen all the time to the same pieces. You want a varied programme if you are to listen for so long as one whole evening.

And in listening to each piece in that programme, you would soon get tired if it consisted of mere repetitions of the same Tune. So just as the programme is made up of a number of pieces, each piece is made of two or more Tunes, generally designed as foils to one another, and repeated at intervals with some sort of intervening matter.

Scholes worked for BBC, assembling those programs with narration, so this was his specialty.

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Copyrights and patents have always missed this middle territory of combiners and builders. Copyrights only applied to the text itself, or the music itself as registered on music paper.

The way of printing a text, or the style used by a conductor or narrator or chef or researcher, is not copyrightable.

Scholes's publisher nicely illustrated the importance of performance style in printing:



The choice of a typeface full of ligatures creates an artistic impression that can't be copyrighted.

With patents, the invention itself may be patented, but the tricks and tools and workflow of a craftsman or factory when building the invention are not patentable.

In a stable culture where human souls have value, the PROPERTY of performance has value. Unions and guilds and lodges formerly preserved and protected the PROPERTY of performance in a more rigorous way.

Now all culture is gone, all contact is forbidden, all communication must pass through the official Five Eyes channels, all guilds are gone, and all written laws are gone. The ever-changing sadistic cruelty of demons is all we have.

Even if this year's extreme and perfectly unprecedented cruelty gradually fades away in some places, culture and human souls have been permanently broken.

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Footnote: Unsurprisingly, none of Scholes's broadcasts have been preserved. Even though Dictaphones were common in the '20s, radio was very rarely recorded until around '32. The definitive Goldindex of old radio has nothing by Scholes. There are a couple of snarky parody recordings on Youtube. The voice is clearly recorded live on modern equipment; I can't tell if he's reading from Scholes books or writing his own parody.

Labels: Entertainment, skill-estate, Trinity House

  ¶ 1:13 AM

  Reviewing fluidic computers
Thinking about the natural basis of calculus reminded me of the Lukyanov fluidic computer, which reminded me that I've featured several fluidic computers this year.

First and most elegant, the Willson automatic buoy. Willson used nothing but natural forces, placed in constant and elegant equipoise. Water pressure counterbalanced acetylene pressure, with the rate of change supplied by combustion.

Next was the Dalen sun valve, using the heat of sunlight to control the flow of acetylene.

Willson and Dalen were practically useful and lifesaving beacons, tied to the Trinity House theme. They represented the original meaning of artificial intelligence, a self-sustaining machine with lifelike properties helping to solve human problems.

The most beautiful and mysterious is the Ridhwan water clock, which used a true fluidic computer to control a series of doors and bells and birds and pointers and lamps.

A medieval night clock used the combustion of oil by a flame versus gravity to count hours and signal end of work, without any mechanism at all.

The Gabry flame clock used combustion versus oil pressure to drive a mechanical pointer.

The Tiffereau water clock used water flow in equipoise to 'tick' a full-fledged clock escapement.

And finally the Lukyanov, a genuine analog computer using nothing but water flow for logic and calculation.

All of these devices are infinitely closer to the natural use of calculus than the lookup tables in books or silicon.

Labels: Equipoise, Patient things, Real World Math, Trinity House

  ¶ 4:22 AM

  Pre-Wilson = Post-Wilson. Deepstate forever.
In previous item on entertainment and science, I noted yet again the shift toward total Deepstate absorption of science that began in 1946 and accelerated around Sputnik.

Here's an interesting presage of the 1958 subsumption.

From 1913 Proceedings of IRE, a convention keynote triggered mainly by the use of radio to hear the Titanic.

This address was originally planned as a resume of the progress during 1912, but one topic has become the main subject to the exclusion of the resume. However, I wish to mention before proceeding that Lee de Forest has given us an excellent account of some notable long distance work and observatrions with an interesting theory which may help to overcome radio absorption.

Hmm. DeForest gave us a THEORY. What's missing? DeForest also gave us the AUDION, which wasn't interesting to this THEORETICIAN. DeForest didn't understand the Audion theoretically; he just showed that it could be used to send and receive audio.

We frequently hear that the United Fruit Company has practically the best radio service. If this is true, it may indicate that the steamship companies would obtain better radio service if they bought their apparatus outright and hired their own operators and engineers.

United Fruit was one of the main foundations of the Sherburne Hopkins proto-Deepstate, just before Wilson brought it into government and formalized it. Deepstate always has the best radio, the best everything.

There are at least 18 members of this Institute who are capable of designing and constructing far better apparatus than is commonly found on steamships today, and there are at least four companies that sell such apparatus.

In favor of the method of obtaining apparatus through competitive bids, the fact may be stated that the US Army and Navy get superior apparatus by specifying what is wanted and then calling for bids.

Radio communication is valuable to the public in general. It is particularly valuable to the ocean-going public, steamship companies, marine underwriters, newspapers, shippers, armies, navies and weather bureaus. For all this service the public probably pays in the end, but the most apparent payment is made by the steamship companies.

What's missing? Entertainment. Music. Speech. Beauty. LOCAL radio stations using and cultivating LOCAL talent.

What's present? Military + Shipping + Newspapers + Weather Bureau = Globalism.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS were already the pot of gold as seen by Big Electronics.

The IRE was stuck in Marconi's mode of thinking, which simply turned the transatlantic telegraph cable into a transatlantic radio beam. In 1913 the UNOFFICIAL amateurs and tinkerers were already sending music and speech, using both Alexanderson alternators and DeForest audions.

Labels: Entertainment, NOT alternate universe, Trinity House

  ¶ 2:03 AM