i learned how to write BASIC on a Tandy Color Computer 3 but that is not what I am most proud about. I was officially (statistically) the worst salesperson at Radio Shack in northern Ohio one summer in college. I looked like a dynamo of productivity, but in actuality I was mostly spending time talking to a Ham radio operator about diodes or a musician customer about King Crimson and Can. Take your name and address. Pffft, I would often make something up so nobody noticed. I sold a computer to a woman for her daughter going to college and felt dirty but there was no other way she was getting a computer. I hope she went on to become an astronaut, or principled House member

i just learned there are about 100 Tandy Leather stores out there if you want to pay tribute

> They've even been caught putting them back up or re-enabling them in places where the contract has been canceled.

Where? I live in Denver, are there clandestine Flock folks running around in fake electrician outfits like a cheap imitation of the Town? we could use a little Situationist urban guerilla theater here, complete with the vacant commercial space repurposed for data centers

From the article:

> Dayton, another city in Minnesota located just 10 miles north of Plymouth, has also paused its Flock program and disabled the two devices in the area. The Dayton police became aware that the company intended to replace these cameras and told Flock not to proceed with the work order. However, it moved forward with the replacement anyway despite being instructed otherwise.

oh that doesn't count, it is part of the Plymouth Syndicate

but doing a little legwork it looks like Flock has done that in Evanston and Cambridge. rollin' in hot with the Fall River Five

I suspect that Flock might even employ real electricians.

nonsense. here's your pillowcase, but you have to supply your own knobs

Scientismic is a cool word, RIP Habermas and you may say to yourself

Tasty wombat secretions... with club sauce

carved by gummi artisans that work exclusively in the medium of gummi

> 86-88: Oh it was Solozzo (Binance) all along, not Starlink.

who is Barzini and who is Tattaglia, just so i can call the latter a pimp

It's hard to discuss "the map is not the terriory" without a reference point to the person who coined the term, Alfred Korzybski. I don't know General Semantics enough to guess whether he and Alex Karp would be besties today or not.

On the subject I also really like a story by Borges titled "On Exactitude in Science." In it depicts an empire so precise its cartography is 1:1 with the empire itself; hilarity ensues. Now, who hasn't felt that way about [insert whatever SDLC] from time to time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

> C'mon... First, there's no infrastructure in the US to process the gas and purify to semi manufacturing levels

Not true. As an example, Air Liquide tanks take semiconductor grade pure helium from Ladder Creek in Colorado to international semi labs:

https://electronics.airliquide.com/who-we-are/our-markets/se...

https://tumbleweedmidstream.com/

(I noticed now because Colorado has a weird Natural Gas bill on the docket)

well that explains a lot about Gemini