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Stephen E Arnold: Are 15 Square Feet Enough? A Question for the Google

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Stephen E. Arnold

Are 15 Square Feet Enough? A Question for the Google

I flipped through the dead tree edition of the outstanding sun-like Wall Street Journal this morning (June 15, 2021). And what did I find inside the edition which sometimes makes its way to Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky? The answer was a four page ad in the Murdoch infused Wall Street Journal. Each page is about 23 inches by 24 inches. That works out to 552 square inches (give or take a few due to variances in trim sizes) per page. With four pages, the total is more than 2,208 square inches of dead tree space or larger than the vinyl floor protector under my discount store office chair and that of one of my assistant’s floor protectors. Which is better vinyl floor protectors or dead tree paper? I am on the fence.

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Stephen E Arnold: Google: Do What We Say, Ignore What We Do, Just Heel!

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Google: Do What We Say, Ignore What We Do, Just Heel!
If this Reddit diagram is on the money, we have a great example of how Google management goes about rule making. The post is called “Google Can’t Pass Its Own Page Speed Test.” The post was online on June 5, 2021, but when Beyond Search posts this short item, that Reddit post may be tough to find.

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Matthew Ehret: The New Eugenics: Transhumanism and the Myth of the 4th Industrial Revolution

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

The New Eugenics: Transhumanism and the Myth of the 4th Industrial Revolution

The ‘re-organization' of the world's societies, cultures, economies and politics seem to be occurring at a rapidly intensifying pace.

International bodies controlled by technocrats all seem to be telling us, and the governments of the world, ‘how it's going to be', and why it is ‘all for our own good'. A relatively small group of individuals are actually redefining what healthy means, how we should think about money, food, technology, ideologies, the weather, and even each other. These people have formed a technocratic infrastructure with a reach and a wrongheadedness that boggles the mind, and when the implications of their policies are realized, it terrorizes the heart.
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Stephen E Arnold: An Amusing Analysis of Palantir Technologies

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Stephen E. Arnold

An Amusing Analysis of Palantir Technologies

I find analyses of intelware/policeware companies fascinating. “Palantir DD If You Want to Understand Company and Its History Better” is based on research conducted since November 2020. The write up asserts that Palantir is three “companies”: The government software (what I call intelware/policeware), the adding sales professionals facet of the business, and “their actual like full AI for weaponization and war and defense for the government.”

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Stephen E Arnold: Professional Publishing and Professional Cheaters

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Stephen E. Arnold

Professional Publishing and Professional Cheaters

“Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research” is an amusing, if not hilarious, write up. The venerable Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has discovered that there is a “growing problem.” No kidding. I noted this statement: Continue reading “Stephen E Arnold: Professional Publishing and Professional Cheaters”

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Stephen E Arnold: Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing

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Stephen E. Arnold

Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing

I think it would be helpful to read “The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox.” The write up is an MBA team effort, and it makes what I think is an interesting point. The cloud makes sense when a company is small and doing the “go fast, break things” stuff. But as the company becomes larger, the cloud becomes expensive and slaps handcuffs on the customer. The MBAs may not agree with my précis, but it works okay for me. Continue reading “Stephen E Arnold: Reconciling Two Views of Cloud Computing”

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Matthew Ehret: From Russell and Hilbert to Wiener and Harari: The Disturbing Origins of Cybernetics and Transhumanism

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

From Russell and Hilbert to Wiener and Harari: The Disturbing Origins of Cybernetics and Transhumanism
As I outlined in my previous article on the Clash of the Two Systems, the end of the 19th century saw a major clash between two opposing paradigms of political economy which has largely been scrubbed out of history books.

Just like today, the two opposing systems were characterized on the one hand, by a demand for centralized control of the world by a unipolar elite yearning to stand above the influence of sovereign nation states like modern gods of Olympus, while the other was premised on a “multipolar” design of a community of sovereign nation states working together on large scale infrastructure and technological progress. One was premised on closed system Malthusian economic standards of adapting to diminishing returns while the other was founded upon standards of ongoing scientific progress generating creative leaps out of the constraints of limited resource baskets.

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