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"Dramatic-simplicity has been one of their chief attractions and is also their chronic weakness, a serious one when they need to be applied in detail" -- Midgley

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"on s'engage, et puis on voit" -- Napoleonic era framing (1819)

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"Slopaganda is distinguished from traditional propaganda by three features: scale, scope, and speed" -- wikipedia

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"paradoxes bind generations together with common problems" -- Sorensen

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TFW sirt im sasani comes on the radio

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"...at a time when pickpockets were executed in England, other pickpockets exercised their talents in the crowd surrounding the scaffold..." -- Camus (1957)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

looks like its equinox eve, looking forward to some autumnal colors in the coming weeks

ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in the cafe, everyone heads down in their facebooks, one guy head down reading a real book, with real paper - a little hope for the future

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TIL you can just pick a number, search for it, and likely find a wikipedia page describing delightful things you'd never expect to find, learn - wonder if there's a concept for gateway-numbers

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

declarative deprogramming

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lost something four weeks ago, out for a walk a possible place to look comes, out of the blue - checks that place, and finds what we lost - brains work without thinking about it, nice when the answers come

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even the solar overtakes wind headline this week - a glimpse of small, more affordable tech?

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clean tech, ad free media - things to look forward to - both more local, less dependent on big tech

meanwhile youtube recommendations everyday slops up a chinese virtual newsreader, you can spot it in a microsecond, and block it, but they popup again, which presumably means the google ai doesn't hit the kill switch because ad revenue goes up

was reading headlines in local press (seems to be all high-school football, no news), and stumbles into a white-nationalist site (didn't know it was) and finds better quality news (what a world)

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remember when small cars used be small? just so an old one, omg, they were small before the bloat

other people's bad design is my passion

ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a "kill-switch" seems like an intuitively appealing metaphor, a control to turn off the machine - you know, the machine that's read all our stuff, its like watching the kitten confused by Shannon's ultimate machine (turn itself on again)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

looking at some old-timey glitchy computer images, art, we find it disturbing, monstrous, and obviously wrong - so odd, though, to reflect that it may not be a mispresentation of our internal misinterpretations

ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TFW Hatis Noit comes on the radio

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

affordable inefficiencies, a diversity of delightful delays, to avoid the utopian techno vision of an efficient world

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

signed and trusted quotes, and ye olde viral slop

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

two kinds of podcasts, one where they have their bookshelf in the background, one where their studio has a bookshelf

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

in terms of fun telescope names, ORCA (Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss) is up there (or down)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"data is beautiful" the group says, fair enough, assuming the charts are, tho, well...

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

been taking snapshots of a local tree for over a year, you can see it changing, not long and it will be that special time of the year (aren't they all, really, if we look :)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"we shall take a close look at the leading pseudo-scientists of recent years" -- Martin Gardner (fads, 1957) - still resonates, much to learn

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

looking at the chart of diesel prices, jumping in Feb 2022, and Feb 2026 - clear correlation with the winter olympics (couldn't be old men making mistakes)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Pseudorealities create pseudocommunities" -- Ursula Franklin

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Israeli officials warned the Bush administration against invading Iraq, saying that it would destabilize the region" -- the strange things you find in reflections on 9/11 after 25 years (wikipedia)

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

in 2020 "the system had less than 100 megawatts of battery storage available... Today, it has more than 17,000 megawatts available" -- LA Times

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

houti and the blowfish? no, just another group, blowing up an oil world economy...

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

watching a youtube video, the guy has normal hair, no weird beard, talks normally - such a pleasant change

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"The knowledge of knowledge compels. It compels us to adopt an attitude of permanent vigilance against the temptation-of-certainty" -- Maturana and Varela

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ken @chumulu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

some guy, studying ecology, likes sand dunes, writes a book - go touch grass (or sand, or both)

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"... history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the Playground-of-Crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts" -- Hannah Arendt (1951)

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"I don't know anything about polygraphs, and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people" -- Nixon

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"we should stop thinking" -- quote of the day (as if people think)

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