Friday, December 16, 2022

Well, that heated up rather quickly

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Remember yesterday, when we talked about Musk suspending Elon's Jet, the automated twitter account that posted publicly available data a...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Thursday Tweets

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For starters, Musk World has been really busy. There's A LOT going on here that will/should prompt advertisers to flee. It includes Musk...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Essential catalogs -- Part 1 (this one kind of got away from me)

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Since the following is critical of this post by Josh Marshall, I should start by pointing out that the main thrust of his post, an analysis...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

One of these things is not like the other

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This is Joseph.   These are some recent elections in Arizona that I think give context to a recent announcement on the part of a senator : 2...
Monday, December 12, 2022

The New York Times provincialism problem

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Over the years here and elsewhere , we've criticized the way the New York Times covers (or often fails to cover) news from the rest of t...
Friday, December 9, 2022

I also had lunch in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, but I couldn't come up with a song for that one...

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Here's a musical itinerary of my recent road trip starting from LA.  Made it out to Needles...   Stood on a corner in Winsl...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Magical Heuristics and the Musk Proximity Principle 

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A few years ago we had a post on how followers of tech messiahs often think in terms we'd normally associate with magic Magic of associ...
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Ragnarök -- Twilight of the Canadian University System

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This is Joseph. After the end of Laurentian University's insolvency process via the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) has ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

(Previous) Tuesday Tweets

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Last time we had such an embarrassment of embarrassments just in the Musk section, that we didn't have space for anything else. Here&#...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Can we all see the concern here?

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This is Joseph.  The main Canadian medical grading agency, CIHR, decides to bypass peer review rankings : In some cases, that meant proposal...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Gladwell gives us a reason to revisit the Grandiosity/Contribution Ratio

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Andrew Gelman has an excellent take-down of a recent Malcolm Gladwell essay. I may dive in with my own criticisms of Gladwell's argumen...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Innumeracy and Brexit

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This is Joseph. Simeon Stylites has a very good catch . In a column arguing against a "Swiss Model" of membership for the United K...
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