Monday, November 14, 2022

Follow-up to Friday's post on FTX

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This is Joseph. Perhaps it was a mistake to post on a fast-changing event but the FTX saga definitely has taken some rather unexpected twis...
Friday, November 11, 2022

The day the bills came due

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This is Joseph. Over the years, I have followed how Mark follows the hype that many industries engage in, with ideas like the Ponzi threshol...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

MoviePass was the platonic ideal of a 21st century start-up

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From Matt Levine's newsletter (No, I don't have a link. It's a free newsletter. Why haven't you signed up yet?) Meanwhile th...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

“Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution?” [and why Britain did]

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   For my money, Bret Devereaux might be the most interesting long form blogger working today. His writing is sharp, his arguments are well ...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

When the bomb under the chair is a bomb cyclone [Okay, technically not a bomb cyclone but we all cheat a little in search of the catchy title]

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Just to review, we've previously used the metaphor of bombs under everyone's chairs to describe the large number of unprecedented...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the church-going, duck-hunting, football-coaching, hog-calling radical left

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It's the longest of long shot races (the polls have him around 38%), but preacher/rocket scientist Chris Jones is running one hell of ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

What the Democrats could learn from Peter Bogdanovich

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Whenever the late director was interviewed (and I suspect whenever he was asked any kind of question at all up to and including the checker ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Thursday Meta-Tweets -- "one of the funniest things that’s ever happened."

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Jon Schwarz has an excellent (and highly amusing) overview of this dog-catches-the-car moment. "ELON MUSK now owns Twitter. We need t...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Telehealth as a solution to ER wait times?

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This is Joseph. I was reading this tweet  run: And it made me think of the time this month that there were reports of the 911 number in Toro...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Continuity

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Before digital cameras were widely available, every movie set with any kind of budget at all had a person who went around taking Polaroids ...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

Historical visionaries often come off better if you don't look too closely at history

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Historian Bret Devereaux has a long but well worth reading post on the longstanding debate over the role of airpower in war.  Before we div...
Friday, October 28, 2022

The Day-late and Perhaps Penultimate Thursday Tweets

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Apropos of nothing: Please be aware that you can download an archive of all your twitter activity here: https://t.co/PVqfWmhjJZ And then you...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

The Nonresponse Problem: What else are we missing?

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The shy Trump voter hypothesis does not, by itself, do a good job explaining what we've been seeing in polling data for the past six yea...
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Rings of Power: a few thoughts

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This is Joseph. SPOILERS! Amazon made a Rings of Power show set in the second age of middle earth. There are some tough decisions to make w...