Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Maybe we could just try going back to the old fashioned notion of enforcing laws.

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I know some of you aren't video people, but this is one of the most sensible things you'll hear in this increasingly overheated deba...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The timing of Sam Altman's principled stand is a bit suspicious

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[Standard caveats for the Hugging Face hacking thread.] [The mainstream coverage of the story has been sensationalistic and alarmist, with m...
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Monday, September 14, 2026

Sanewashing Revisited

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While reading Andrew Gelman's recent post on sanewashing, I was surprised at how many people in the comment section seem to be complete...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Nothing untoward going on here

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DRUCK: “.. Given what’s going on in the economy and the capital spending boom and the war for capital, if anything, [bond yields seem] a li...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

It turned out that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella actually could overstate the breakthrough of the metaverse

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Occasionally, sitcoms will go meta and play with the conventions of the genre, such as the way that huge, life-changing events seem to disap...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

It's like something from a science fiction story. (No, it's literally* something from a science fiction novel)

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[* Can you use literally to describe something being derived from something even if the result is not a direct quote? Well, I just did so ap...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Coming soon to a theater near you...

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I'm sure Musk will deal with this with the grace and dignity we've come to expect.   Steven Zeitchik writing for the Hollywood Repor...
Monday, September 7, 2026

It's Labor Day, so we're taking time off and running a repost

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  It's Labor Day weekend so let's stop by Emma Goldman's ice-cream shoppe in Worcester for a hot fudge sundae and some anarchy. ...
Friday, September 4, 2026

"An analyst at JP Morgan described the approach as being like paying your mortgage with your credit card, which is unkind, but it's also basically what it is."

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I realize we recommend a lot of Patrick Boyle videos but this is one of the best walk-throughs of one of the most important news stories of ...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Elites in America

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This is Joseph.  This article got me thinking about the idea of elites. Because I am actually in agreement with one major thread here, whic...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Will Fusion Fizzle?

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Following up on our previous post.   As is always the case with technologies that are still on the horizon, reasonable estimates of timeline...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Fusion hype has a familiar ring to it

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We'll be coming back to this Holdren essay and what it says about techno-optimists' fascination with fusion, but for now, but for no...
Monday, August 31, 2026

It is notable that the illustration for the FT article is a literal Pie in the Sky (but given that we're talking about Brits here, it's probably filled with eels or blackbirds or something weird like that)

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From the WSJ : SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric. Anthropic’s could push it even further. The m...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Apparently they don't get MeTV in Florida

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Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida paren...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Which is weirder, the fact that the president just suggested he might use a military intervention to stabilize the bond market, or the fact that almost no one seemed to notice?

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When I say no one, obviously I don't mean social media, where for every event you can find someone who made a note of it. Reporter on B...