Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Few things are nicer than being cool when it's hot and warm when its cold.

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A few weeks back, while we were discussing Ukraine, Joseph pointed out that, given its role in climate change and the energy economy, heatin...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Tuesday Tweets -- Musk Edition

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Having spoken to more than 100 sources across the history of Tesla, this absolutely checks out. "Managing Elon" is a theme that...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Canada's medical system under siege.

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This is Joseph. The thread here by Emer O'Toole is a good example of the craziness that parents in Canada undergo when seeking emergenc...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Twitter and Brexit

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This is Joseph. Now it is true that some of Brexit was made possible by social media, including Twitter, but that is not the angle that I wa...
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu ...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Non-Thursday Tweets (because with the current state of Twitter, running this on Thanksgiving would just be wrong)

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Might as well start with... It's just too bad there was no way to predict that Elon Musk would run a company this way! https://t.co/vEJ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Our standards for business disaster have gotten way too high.

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Take Bob Chapek . In a blockbuster development, Walt Disney Co.’s longtime chief Robert Iger is returning to lead the Burbank-based enterta...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Back on the Ithuvania beat -- "Hipster Eugenics"

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     Just to review ... Sometimes, when I come across yet another bit of jaw-dropping flakiness from some tech-bubble billionaire, my though...
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Sunday, November 20, 2022

Repost: We're about to revist that first paragraph in a big way

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The 245th battalion of the 126th Odesa TDF Brigade and the fighters of the 11th "Mykhailo Hrushevsky" National Guard Brigade raise...
Friday, November 18, 2022

"If this is the last thing everyone sees on Twitter then I can absolutely live with that…"

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Twitter (in perhaps the most Twitter thing ever) may be giving its own eulogy. The big topic on the platform tonight is whether it will be t...
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Five years ago at the blog -- I'd forgotten how non-annoying Pinker used to be

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  Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Igon values, superstar coin flippers, and the Gladwell problem Malcolm Gladw...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The NYT's election face plant reflects a long standing problem

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Michael Cieply writing in 2016 . [Emphasis added.] Having left the Times on July 25, after almost 12 years as an editor and correspondent, ...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Tuesday Schadenfreude Tweets -- an embarrassment of embarrassments

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I love this quote. There's nothing, and I do not mean this sarcastically, nothing as attractive to the religiously adjacent as some lig...