Thursday, March 19, 2026

I read the Financial Times because of its sharp insights, witty prose, and the fact that they have writers with names like Robin Wigglesworth

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More on the approaching SpaceX IPO scam. The definitive explainer remains the Patrick Boyle video that we discussed Monday , but if you pref...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Blah blah Ginger blah blah blah

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The following quote comes from the distinguished computer scientist  Yann LeCun , but I've heard others in the field say virtually the s...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

MAHAspital

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Pretty good Saturday Night Live sketch. Rather typically, it starts out very strong, then falls into familiar bad habits, putting a hat on a...
Monday, March 16, 2026

Patrick Boyle lays out the ugly details of Elon Musk’s ultimate scam (perhaps in both senses of the word).

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From the video description: SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation for what could be the largest IPO in history. In this video, we ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

When it comes to agentic AI, a Newhart Airline is the best is the best case scenario.

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In a previous post , I discussed the idea of a steam airplane (an impressive technology that still represented a soon to be abandoned dead e...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Old Sheldon

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This is an extraordinary speech by Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate floor a few days ago. It is largely free of rhetorical flourishes, is of...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Strategic Airpower

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We've recommended military historian and blogger Bret Devereaux before -- he's an exceptional writer and pretty much anything he pos...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

BTFD

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 I have been meaning to give this thread a rest. We've written about it quite a bit, and it's a bit off topic for the blog. But the...
Monday, March 9, 2026

Buying the Dip

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    We have an explanation—or at least a credible hypothesis from a trustworthy source—about why the market under Donald Trump II always shr...
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Friday, March 6, 2026

Bit of a spoiler with the Silicon Valley clip, but it's a great gag

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While I am by no means a fan of focus groups, I'm probably not quite as negative on the subject as most of the readers of this blog, for...
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Thursday, March 5, 2026

And to think of all the fun we made of Rumsfeld for known unknowns -- mostly trivial items for the penultimatepost of the week

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Marco Rubio: "We went proactively in a defensive way" [image or embed] — Aaron Rupar ( @atrupar.com ) March 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM B...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

If nothing else, the image of Wall Street investors as extras from Oliver! was worth the price of admission -- updated

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Following up on yesterday's post , here's Allison Morrow's actually informed take: After more or less shrugging at the conflict...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

We just point out the patterns; we don't try to explain them.

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Once again, we’ve seen the two defining rules of markets in 2025 and 2026 (so far): 1. There is no jump scare so trivial and obviously absur...
Monday, March 2, 2026

The prediction market thread got very relevant very quickly.

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Whether you're talking about the temptation to rig a traffic light or find a way to effectively sell government secrets, the potential t...
Friday, February 27, 2026

The very fact that this article calls to mind a Roald Dahl short story is probably a red flag

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 Victor Tangermann writing for Futurism.   New Platform Lets You Gamble on CCTV Footage Thanks to the rise of sports betting and prediction ...
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