Government is dead, so this is all that is left. > On Jan 24, 2022, at 4:33 PM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, that was the point of my recent link: > > The Fake Futurism of Elon Musk > https://youtu.be/5OtKEetGy2Y > > There's a trend away from good old fashioned futurism to this Tony Stark > near-radical thing, analogous to the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeal to the > youngsters. I blame it on comics and super hero movies. Pffft. Irony is dead. > Subtlety is dead. It's all about the bling, baby. > >> On 1/24/22 16:19, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> SFI sponsorship seems like very much a fideistic declaration. It would be >> interesting to see how that influence network feeds into a D.C. influencer >> network and real money. There are some linkages, like Brookings, but >> leverage-wise it all seems much softer than with LANL and the DOE. And it >> all seems so fussy and indirect compared to slapping down a few billion >> dollars to build a Starship. That's the appeal of Musk: I'm f'ing doing >> this. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of glen >> <geprope...@gmail.com> >> *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 5:08 PM >> *To:* friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com> >> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] health care logistics >> Well, that ain't true, either. Like Epstein, when you "invest" in the SFI or >> people like Steven Pinker or Bill Clinton, you're simply transferring from >> one store to another ... buying influence. If, e.g., the CIA contracts with >> the SFI to adapt a CAS modeling tool into a broad spectrum simulation tool, >> they are not only buying a (questionable) piece of software; they're buying >> *leverage* over people's salaries, loyalty, etc. So those VCs *will* see >> that money again, perhaps much less of it, depending on the efficiency of >> the transaction, or in fringe storage types (able to get past the >> receptionist after eating over-priced peri-Mexican food in order to have tea >> with smart people). >>> On 1/24/22 15:31, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> Some of them sponsor SFI for goodness' sake! They'll never see THAT money >>> again! > > -- > glen > Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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