Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The Talking Tina Fallacy

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 [If you want to get picky, that's Talky Tina.*] The Talking Tina fallacy is the tendency to ascribe sentience, emotions—and often super...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Checking in with LA weather. It’s nice.

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 Burbank.   I frequently feel the need to throw good news in because East Coast journalists will so gleefully report anything bad that happe...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

All so the son of a loony Silicon Valley billionaire can have his own studio.

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It’s easy to forget now, but for at least half of the 20th century, CBS had one of the premier news organizations in the country. People sti...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

"Once you get used to all the swords, the Throne of Damocles is actually quite comfortable."

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The Trump Trade has given way to the Taco Paradox: the less the market believes Trump's threats, the more likely they are to be true. [...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

I so wish Clyde Schechter had been wrong on this one

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Yesterday, you had to scroll to the bottom of the NYT webpage for any mention of the scandal that's tearing the MAGA movement apart (ser...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Always interesting to see how the NYT handles a story the GOP would rather not talk about.

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 I'm not talking so much about the actual reporting (some of which is quite good) as much as the editorial side. How do they frame it. A...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Feral disinformation, blood feuds, and a lifetime supply of schadenfreude — it's been quite the weekend.

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In case you missed it, some serious rifts have opened up in Trump World. Eric Tucker writing for the AP. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Depar...
Friday, July 11, 2025

Patrick Boyle on the Gilded Age -- a higher caliber of evil plutocrats

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Patrick Boyle does keep at least a light thumb on the scale while making his case that the robber barons had a net positive effect on Americ...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

The questionable logic of Wall Street’s Trump TACO trade

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 Fascinating story about market psychology from Matt Egan . President Donald Trump is once more threatening to lob massive dut...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

About that salute Elon gave...

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Apologies for reverting to this old format, but this is very much a tale told in tweets. Something very strange happened recently with Elon ...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

At the New Yorker, fact checking seems to be viewed as a personal choice

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 I've never really gotten what people saw in Adam Gopnik and we've been down this road with the New Yorker at least a couple of tim...
Monday, July 7, 2025

In case you skipped the news over your three-day weekend

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  WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The dispute between Republican President Donald Trump and his main campaign financier Elon Musk took ano...
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