Friday, March 28, 2025

CGI and spreadsheets have revolutionized the construction of Potemkin villages

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Our favorite YouTube financial commentator, Patrick Boyle, (" The city would naturally form a line as it tried to get away from itself,...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Running with the (Tesla) Bulls

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Before diving into Wall Street attitudes toward Tesla, we have to remind ourselves that there are at least three different measures of succe...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

"The Myth of the Secret Genius"

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I was sorting through my draft folder when I came across this post by Brian Klaas. I'm embarrassed that I didn't get around to post...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

You can hardly blame the New York Times for trusting Netflix. It's not like the company has a record of pulling this crap for more than a decade.

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I kid, of course. From CJR via Andrew Gelman ,   When stock markets closed on January 19, 2021, Netflix posted a press release with its end...
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Monday, March 24, 2025

"First class tickets for ships that have sailed" -- a ten-years-ago-at-the-blog repost

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 [A quick side note. Bob Chipman, a film critic and pop culture historian whose work I enjoy and which I cited recently is no longer with t...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Still a better branding choice than "Soylent"

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xAI calls its supercomputer Colossus .    We could go back and forth about how much this is a joke or how much self-awareness it shows, but...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Perhaps we should let Turing off the hook as well

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A little while back, we came to the defense of Arthur Conan Doyle by pointing out that surprisingly many intellectuals and scientists inclu...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Noah may be overthinking "We'll do the Flintstones but in the future, with robots instead of dinosaurs."

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I wrote this about a year ago but it somehow disappeared into the draft folder shortly after Noah Smith wrote this post . Fortunately, thoug...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Every picture tells a story

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 A bit of context. Substantially more people died in the Eaton fire than in the Palisades fire. Far more people were left homeless in Altade...
Monday, March 17, 2025

"The SAT Gave Me Hope"

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Back in 2014, the New York Times published a brief memoir about taking the SAT and how unfair it had been. This was another case of the pape...
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Friday, March 14, 2025

At least he didn't call it 'crowd sourcing'

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[While while looking for notes I'd made for last week's Hitchcock/Lovecraft post, I search for that author's name and this poppe...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

I tried to come up with a snarky title, but I was hard-pressed to top "timeless appeal" -- another entry in our Adventures in IP thread

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Not the worst IP proposal for a universe we've seen recently (remind me to talk about the return of Atlas Comics), but probably the most...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

How can we possibly hope to rebuild after losing more than one half of a percent of our housing?

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 Two months later and the Wall Street Journal is still pushing the drama (not to mention a couple of its favorite narratives). Rebuilding Lo...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Note to Elon: When people are accusing you of being a Nazi, blaming it on a George Soros conspiracy may not be the smartest move.

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It's not often that I recommend a Motley Fool article over a Lawyers, Guns & Money post , particularly not one by Scott Lemieux, ...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Ten years ago at the blog, March was pretty much Mars One month

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It has largely been shoved down the memory hole, but in 2014 and 2015, virtually every major news organization was credulously reporting on ...