10/06 Open Thread - Mad Hatter Day
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~~ Mad Hatter Day
Today is National Mat Hatter Day To answer some obvious queries;
What is it? A Day to act silly.
Why? Why not or, should you prefer, porque no?
Why 10/6? Lewis Carroll's mad hatter's hatband contained a tag saying "In this style 10/6".
How did it come to pass? It is alleged that it was created in 1986 in Boulder Colorado by a group of bored computer technicians who felt that we needed a day of silliness.
The less obvious query: IF Mad Hatter Day is the Answer, then what is the question? is answered below.
It is also National Badger Day Who knew that Badgers were silly? Really?
The Ottomans were on the losing side in WWI. The victors then parceled out designated chunks for each to exploit be in charge of (these were the spheres of influence envisioned by the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement). Then France and England each ran around creating arbitrary and capricious borders for arbitrary and capricious states to be rules by arbitrary and capricious rulers. Some chunks of turf were designated as mandates. These were allegedly to be run by the appropriate victorious state "for the benefit of the local resident populace" until such time as they were ready for self-government, and which time the mandate would end and they would become nations. One mandate, of course, was a hoax and a fraud where the controlling state had no intention whatsoever of ever turning it over to the resident populace , but that kind of thing was to be expected from imperialist colonizer empires like England and France. This madness has, ever since, caused grief, conflict and trouble throughout the entire area, for both the local peoples and states and for much of the rest of the so-called "West".
On this date in 1923, however, a group calling itself The Turkish National Movement entered what was then Constantinople. They had objected to the Allied occupation of Constantinople and the details of the partition of the Ottoman Empire pursuant to the Armistice of Mudros sufficiently to start the Turkish War of Independence, trying to actually implement the Wilsonian principle of self determination.which everybody since WWI pays lip service to but few actually support except in rare instances. Their eventual victory led to the Republic of Turkey governed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. They alone of all the resultant states had some say in the size, shape, boundaries and government of their nation.
On this day in history:
AD 23 – Rebels decapitated Wang Mang, who had a most interesting history
1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition took over the Apalachee capital for their winter quarters.
1600 – The earliest surviving opera, Euridice, premiered
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States was founded in Rhode Island.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, was founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1903 – The High Court of Australia sat for the first time.
1908 – Austria-Hungary formally annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1923 – The Turkish National Movement entered Constantinople.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1934 – The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaimed the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
1973 – Egypt and Syria launched coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1976 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group with serious CIA ties, connections and likely participation
1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.
1976 – The Thammasat University massacre in Thailand occurred
1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29 made its maiden flight.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was murdered by Islamic extremists.
1987 – Fiji became a republic.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, was discovered.
2007 – Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 – Instagram was founded.
2018 – The US Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice
2022 – Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Some people who were born on this day:
Nobody's free until everybody's free.
~~ Fannie Lou Hamer
649 – Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ
1459 – Martin Behaim, navigator and geographer
1510 – John Caius, physician and academic, co-founded the Gonville and Caius College
1626 – Géraud de Cordemoy, historian, philosopher and lawyer
1729 – Sarah Crosby, preacher, the first female Methodist preacher
1744 – James McGill, businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University
1773 – John MacCulloch, geologist and academic
1820 – Jenny Lind, soprano and actress
1831 – Richard Dedekind, mathematician and philosopher
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony
1882 – Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer
1886 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
1893 – Meghnad Saha, astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (died 1956)
1895 – Caroline Gordon, author and critic (died 1981)[15]
1897 – Florence B. Seibert, biochemist and academic
1900 – Vivion Brewer, activist and desegregationist
1901 – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, zoologist and academic
1903 – Ernest Walton, physicist and academic
1908 – Sergei Sobolev, mathematician and academic
1910 – Orazio Satta Puliga, automobile designer
1914 – Thor Heyerdahl, ethnographer and explorer
1915 – Carolyn Goodman, psychologist and activist
1917 – Fannie Lou Hamer, activist and philanthropist
1921 – Evgenii Landis, mathematician and theorist
1931 – Nikolai Chernykh, astronomer
1931 – Riccardo Giacconi, astrophysicist and astronomer
1936 – Julius L. Chambers, lawyer, educator, and activist
1939 – Sheila Greibach, computer scientist and academic
1941 – Paul Popham, soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis
1943 – Cees Veerman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Ivan Graziani, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 – Patxi Andión, singer, songwriter, and actor
1947 – Millie Small, singer and songwriter
1948 – Glenn Branca, guitarist and composer
1949 – Thomas McClary, R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1949 – Nicolas Peyrac, singer, songwriter, and photographer
1951 – Kevin Cronin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951 – Gavin Sutherland, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1953 – Rein Rannap, pianist and composer
1954 – David Hidalgo, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1960 – Richard Jobson, singer, songwriter, director, and producer.
1964 – Matthew Sweet, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1966 – Tommy Stinson, singer, songwriter, and bass player
1970 – Maria Kannegaard, pianist and composer
1972 – Daniel Cavanagh, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1972 – Anders Iwers, bass player
1977 – Melinda Doolittle, singer and songwriter
1977 – Jamie Laurie, singer and songwriter
1982 – Will Butler, musician and composer
1984 – Joanna Pacitti, singer and songwriter
1986 – Meg Myers, singer and songwriter, and guitarist
Some people who died on this day:
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
AD 23 – Wang Mang, emperor of the Xin Dynasty
1641 – Matthijs Quast, explorer
1660 – Paul Scarron, poet and author
1762 – Francesco Manfredini, violinist and composer
1873 – Paweł Strzelecki, geologist and explorer (
1892 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
1951 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, physician and biochemist
1959 – Bernard Berenson, historian and author
1968 – Phyllis Nicolson, mathematician and physicist
1969 – Otto Steinböck, zoologist
1978 – Johnny O'Keefe, singer and songwriter
1979 – Elizabeth Bishop, poet and short-story writer
1985 – Nelson Riddle, composer, conductor, and bandleader
1986 – Alexander Kronrod, mathematician and computer scientist
1991 – Igor Talkov, singer and songwriter
1999 – Amália Rodrigues, singer and actress
2010 – Rhys Isaac, historian and author
2012 – Anthony John Cooke, organist and composer
2012 – Nick Curran, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
2019 – Ginger Baker, drummer
2020 – Johnny Nash, singer and songwriter
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Mad Hatter Day
Blue Shirt Day
Garlic Lovers Day
National Noodle Day
National Badger Day
Today's Tunes
Whuffo Mad Hatter Day
National Badger Day
The Republic of Turkey
Edwin Fischer
Ivan Graziani
Patxi Andión
Millie Small
Thomas McClary
Nicolas Peyrac
Kevin Cronin
David Hidalgo
Johnny O'Keefe
Nelson Riddle
Ginger Baker, must be....
Johnny Nash
Mas David Hidalgo
More Nelson Riddle
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
EDIT - fixed runaway italics
open thread, Mad Hatter Day, Badger Day, Constantinople, Fannie Lou Hamer, Tennyson, Millie Small, David Hidalgo, Nelson Riddle, Ginger Baker
Comments
Could be influenced by the full harvest moon
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can you get to heaven from here
in spite of the lead poisoning?
Good luck trying.
Going to try make grape jelly today...
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning QMS. I have enough trouble being
here full time to contemplate trying to get raptured. Thanks for the great music clip, should probably be played on all the airwaves at least monthly.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I like the idea...
...of mad hatter day. As for badgers...I hate to be badgered.
A gray day here. May be we'll get some needed rain?
Thanks for the OT and all the music.
This was an interesting conversation this morning.
(25 min) Alastair Crooke : Order, Prudence, Rules are GONE!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. Wouldn't want to face off
against a real badger, they're feisty little beasts. I've been a hat wearer most of my life, and perhaps always a bit mad as well, so it's definitely fine with me.
Thanks for the video.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
people are pushing back
.
.
against the PTB which
may be a turning point
to shift the flow of info
wars into potential
humanistic possibilities
in other words
awareness spreads exponentially
thanks for the OT el!
always good
Zionism is a social disease
Let's hope that you are right, can't happen too soon. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, El, et al!
Well, I read the State Bar Journal's article about where to get my AI ChatGPT Toolkit. It is the first user's manual issued in the US.
It begins with a reminder that our Rules of Professional Conduct requires lawyers to be proficient with new technology. The rest of the article is about what to do if and when things go wrong, suggesting lawyers obtain malpractice insurance before using it.
My head hurts. Not a good day to wear a hat.
Thanks for the OT and great tunes, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
say whaa?
.
you are now required to
get some kind of license
to be an accredited law
professional with AI credentials?
Pretty sure that would not hold-up
in court. Picking on the wrong bunch.
Zionism is a social disease
We old hands are royally
pissed at this trend. We have a responsibility to be proficient at using the technology, but not forced to use it. Yet.
By the same token, hallucinations have caused many attorneys to get sued. Some AI hallucinations have found their way into briefs at the Texas Supreme Court.
We of the Old Guard are refusing to use this crap, but are awaiting some future "test" to see if we are proficient, so as to meet the ethics requirement. Good thing I am very close to retiring.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The risk of chatcpt making up citations is too great
to use it for much of anything except simple and straightforeward non=legal information and/or narrative such as an explanation of what a bicycle is or what mpg means, etc, which you then must scrupulously review. Probably more PITA than assist. Your summary of the manual is telling in this respect.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Do I spend my time doing my own research,
or spend my time double checking AI research.
My legal software has propounded intake forms, and they are junk.
An example: Name who you want to probate your will and manage your estate when you die. I will put no more than 3 names. First choice should be a responsible adult who lives in or near the county of the testator's residence, and who should be the spouse or someone younger. The other 2 successors should have the same qualification. In other words, don't name your Dad, as the odds are you will outlive him. Don't name the son who can't read. The intake form says to name everyone and the more the merrier. That is the exact language they use.
One size does not fit all.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Oh yeah, I know all about standard forms, generally
preferred to make my own. Primacy definitely goes to doing one's own research. The potential uses I see for ai are for it to do menial and trivial busywork, maybe stuff like scan the following documents for the words x and y as well as the phrase asdf and output document, page, and line for each instance or scan this ledger and output page and line for each number of 25,000. Stuff one could really do with the tools built into unix or linus or a package named AWK, no intelligence nor simulacrum thereof needed.
be weell and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I was watching Ed. Weir
the Social Security, SSI, SSD, Medicare, etc., expert talking about proposed changes to SSD, and SSID pending now. One of the proposals is to make up new disability criteria, with a new jobs database. He thinks they want to substitute AI adjudications for human adjudication decisions on disability.
Another interesting point was his calculations on how much time there is before 30 percent cuts in SS payments. He does it by months, I can't remember the exact figure, when I divided by 12 on the calculator it was 7 years 3 months from now.
語必忠信 行必正直
AI is entering the medical field!
I had an eye exam today, talked to the staff. They are horrified.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I think that I've finally
found a way to claw back, and perhaps enjoy, a little peace in the face of all of the ballistic dreck into which life in America has devolved- gradually, then suddenly.
I have decided that giving a shit is harmful to my health, and especially so to my mental health. This morning, I sat down at my machine here, and found 4 political-fundraising emails that had somehow escaped my filters, and 9 political-fundraising text messages (which I haven't been able to figure out how to preemptively filter out yet), from the last 24 hours. All are from dem candidates or wannabes, saying things like "We haven't done a damned thing other than line our own pockets in the previous few decades, but this time we really mean it- and a lot of you are actually stupid enough to believe that, and will give us money anyway. Isn't that cool?"
No. No, it is not. There is nothing whatsoever I can do to help with the current situation, and there sure as hell is nothing that any of these scum-sucking wankers plan to do other than abscond with as much as possible of the donated funds before anybody else notices.
They must think that we are all utter idiots, at this point, to continue with the begging. Posse Comitatus has been dead for years, and it won't be long before there are tanks in the streets of those cities whose populations had the temerity to vote for the wrong party. And the "opposition party" is doing less than nothing about it, politically speaking. If the ones already sucking that cash tit in office can't be bothered, why would any person with an IQ above room temperature believe that somebody "new" (but still claiming membership in the same confederacy of dunces) would be at all inclined to do anything differently?
There is no political solution. I have finally, at long last, committed to myself to simply stop caring. This is the way that it was planned to be by Important People- so, so be it. I'm glad that I've killed off all my other social media presence. There's no time left to waste on it, just as there is no more money left to waste on yet more unfulfilled promises.
Now, it is just time to pour an Adult Beverage and watch everything (and my liver) burn. And maybe to talk about food, music, and gardening with a tiny handful of other like-minded persons, during the time remaining before one of those tanks rolls over me.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
UFS
I had an adjunct contracts professor who used to say, "Who shives a git?" from time to time in front of the class. At the time I hadn't heard that before, and it always made me laugh when he said it, mostly because it was so irreverent, and compared favorably to the other stuffy profs there. He got the ax before the term was over, I kind of knew he would. I was sorry to see him go. I thought he was a great teacher. Then we got some boring dweeb.
The other thing that came to mind were the principles of wu wei, 無爲 act without acting. The other was 物極必反, (in Chinese Wùjíbìfǎn; in Korean sa geuk pil ban) as a matter goes to an extreme, by necessity it becomes or goes to its opposite. Of course, in the process I feel we may be consumed. Oh well. Rod Serling had a line, in one of his parodies on the Berlin Wall, "One does what one can." I think Kurt Vonnegut said "And so it goes" about slaughter during WWII. Anyway, this is about the extent of my insufficient coping mechanisms.
語必忠信 行必正直
Good evening Soryang. I alwys thought that Wu Wei was
The Way as long as one now and then indulges in sitting-doing-nothing, which is dificult for me right now.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Salut!
I toast you with a raise of a bottle, a slug of the adult beverage, and feel the same way, friend.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening UFS. Not giving a shit is a very important
part of the path which is not a path. It really helps one get through the day.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi EL!
Always enjoy your collection of anniversaries and the associated tunes.
That's an interesting story about Turkey and the mandate, etc. Ho Chi Minh from Vietnam, and Kim Kyu-sik, from Korea, went to the Paris Peace Conference to lobby for independence of their respective colonized nations, under the principle of self determination, but were blown off leading to major wars years later.
Thanks for the OT!
語必忠信 行必正直
Uncle Ho didn't have a chane at that conference -
It was one thing to divvy up somebody slse's empire, and even there, nobody got elf determination out of the box and the Turks had to fight a war for it, but Vietnam was previously a French colony, and none of the colonial powers (everybody but the US) would support gratuitously freeing one of someone's colonies
Glad you like the column.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Loving the David Hildalgo/Los Lobos
Music, and everything else. I'm late, but enjoying this a lot.
Ohh and as a garlic lover, I appreciate the day! I didn't know we had one
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so