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collected from the daily dilly. some haven’t had time to pickle, others to gel.

AI means Automatic Inflation.. and that AIn’t smart

me..webionaire

In his 2019 book Alchemy, Sutherland coined the term “doorman fallacy”. The doorman fallacy refers to the error of reducing a person’s job to its most basic function and replacing it with a cost-effective automation while disregarding the broader, not directly visible, value they provide.

two valleys: one was The Weirton steelland.. sounded like Rearden to the russkey [her preferred place ] to: chugboat –the additions to Dektol aren’t intended to convert it into Ansco-130, rather, they are meant as ‘tunings’ toward printing characteristics.. tone separation [Hi, Sh] as well as curve with extended developer time; all while maintaining tray life. This worked in the days of Dupont Velour, Agfa Brovira, Portriga … baking is adapting to the nature. Dance with floor as well as the music.

Ayn and Rearden… speak-spell got it wrong: thinking the phrase was: “your own steel” since, of course phrase counts upon the internet uses OWN with increasing frequency. Ayn, for childhood reading all through adulthood. Comfort to those midland successes dreaming of salvation by the Knight Watchman

ai is ‘own grazed’ with voice [ Your own steel ] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISG_Weirton_Steel

the file of OWN– a word that has become stuck to my shoe.

PICTURES by other means

Introducing Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
” Why oscillators? In the brain, rhythmic activity and synchronization are pervasive, and have long been hypothesized to do computational work like binding distributed features into coherent percepts, gating communication between regions, and organizing the timing of spikes (Gray et al., 1989; Buzsáki, 2006; Fries, 2015). Coupled oscillators are among the simplest mathematical models of that kind of behavior, which makes them a natural primitive to study for neuro-inspired models of computation (Winfree, 1967; Kuramoto, 1975; Ermentrout, 1996; Ermentrout et al., 2010). [https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/ ]

From Sandhill Valley. JUNE 24, 2026 Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

Knowing is Knowing is Knowing

Hagsouth Waffles —

US5~ here, who walked thru two lines of medics providing us “medical autonomy,” giving free shots… but then, 1965 was a time we didn’t have catering cards… we had signs outside mess halls at Ft. Bragg ” edible garbage” .. so it went, in the time before Contract Killers took-over.

sometime I’ll tell about powdered milk and powdered eggs… with water from rainstorms.. cooking over flares… only if the night was foggy.. sadly, not a tattoo parlor in site, certainly not onsite.

“Since the pandemic, affordability has become a key issue in U.S. politics, and energy prices are the current face of affordability,” Cassino told Newsweek. “In our polling, voters support anything to bring down their energy bills, but banning data centers is pretty much the most popular option.”

menus from last century.. the early restaurant https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/

AI Bluff..

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it’s been about a week since I posted about the AI layoffs .. in that week there have been three additional layoff notices from the high tech industry .. The software is everything people ..these layoffs of at least 5% of their existing workforce are based upon restructuring in anticipation of improved productivity gains due to AI ..

We Are Laying Off — eliminating jobs [people] that are expected to be replaced by improved, more productive computer programs , ie, AI.

he who competes with a machine must become a machine –Kurt Vonnegut

takes me back to 2k– thank you mr. greenspan

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Ten percent of every tech startup’s employees are becoming a completely different species to the ninety percent. Because their productivity is now at this exponential scale and they are actually finding every single person around them and every other process to be slow,” he said.

His evidence: “Ninety percent of code at CRED is written by AI now. This number would have been maybe five percent a year ago.” Five to ninety percent in a year is a dramatic shift by any measure, and Shah made clear the company was still in the middle of figuring out what building agentically at scale actually looks like.

film fights 

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call out the Warriors’ favorite clichés .. food food food .. caviar coronations

you don’t go to the beauty parlor for information — not even game scores. it’s about wow and while away the hours.

a two axis cockfight.. not this but that.. whatever you say, or hold, i counter, or knock . it’s all about aesthetics; it’s all about science .. it’s all ; about the science ;no it’s all about that science .. it’s this aesthetic world no it’s that aesthetic one .. it’s all about contrast ; no it’s all about grain ..

A beginning is a very delicate time…. when to plant.. to transplant

you can’t show it on the web . things can’t be talked about, as we talk about things, on the web .. We diminish ourselves by remaining around those with such on explored opinions. they never deepen; they never widen. they fester like an unhealable wound. you won’t limp if you trim your nails, correctly. it’s the gangrene that will kill you .

after, maybe before “crankyvBulks” –Long term vBulls tend to hate Youtubers and reddits .. hobbiests frown on the new. there’s never enough room on the shrinking ice pack for extra mouths

PUSH, DON’T shove …divided over developers and the microphen section... The patent about microphen effective replacement makes use of a pre-bath.

>> steps exploded: pre-soak > developer > post-soak, ie. 2nd bath in divided developer system. This is the other way of grasping the ‘developer’ step in photochemical procedure. <dev-stop-fix.>

 “good thinking has always been, in part, a self-isolating enterprise.”

The slide needs eleven, but you’ve only got five… make two 5’s .. an upper and a lower..

The Box is a product … as is the Film inside.

Who owns the brand? Who makes the Film .. the Yellow Box of Upstate NY. Ask the government sites — ownership is legal concept. Rights are registered. The forms are online. They reveal the owner, dates, disputes, law firms to contact for additional information or action.

  • Eastman Kodak .. makes emulsions.. has marketing rights. has sold rights.
  • Kodak Alaris .. has marketing rights .. distributes some brands, but is keyed toward software, imaging systems for offices.
  • Blue ISO.. has marketing rights

Who makes, sells, or is otherwise involved in what was once the Kodak films from my lab days no longer matters to my work. I don’t buy “Kodak” anything… for similar reasons that I don’t buy based upon shipping & handling — from Amazon/B&H/ und zo vitah.. They drop their cloak — I don’t intend to pay for my yoke.

the age of petromodern fades into fossil fog