Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Too busy to talk about these now but...

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Check out Marshall on McArdle on Gawker and Krugman on bad election narratives. p.s. and this from Hamilton Nolan in Gawker on pay...

At least it's under $5 billion...

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As mentioned before , I'm working on a longer piece on the journalistic failure around the “proposal” for a supersonic passenger train c...
Monday, May 30, 2016

"Elon Musk does his best Donald Trump impression" -- the invaluable Michael Hiltzik

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This one was sitting in the queue for a while, but recent events have bumped it to the high priority track. There is possibly no one who p...

Latest video in the Puzzler's Guide to Problem Solving series

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Another look at doublets, but this time with completely different set of heuristics.
Sunday, May 29, 2016

"Wowza" doesn't begin to cover it -- why we need Gawker -- part III

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Following up on the previous post and our good friends the Lessins. From Sam Biddle : The San Francisco Chronicle was at the fete, an...
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Saturday, May 28, 2016

"How To Party Your Way Into a Multi-Million Dollar Facebook Job" -- the sad state of business journalism [Why we need Gawker -- part II]

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[A repost from 2011. Made sadly topical again by recent events ] Andrew Gelman (before his virtual sabbatical ) linked to this fascina...

Why we need Gawker -- part I

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There are very few journalistic organizations that would leave a distinct and costly hole if they disappeared tomorrow. Gawker is one of tha...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Chamberty and barratry -- Josh Marshall takes us through the courts of Ithuvania

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One of the things that greatly added to the damage of the Ithuvanian Experiment (giving random subjects of largely average intelligence bill...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Running a political columnist through the translation app

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A recent sample text from Thomas B. Edsall writing for the New York Times . Input On Sunday, Donald Trump pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton...

Adventures in Ithuvania -- REPOST

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[After reading this and this and this , I think we may be visiting Ithuvania quite a bit in the near future.] There's a wonderful ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

What went wrong with Mars One and Hyperloop coverage -- never let a resolved issue stand in the way of a nice think piece

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 One of the many contributing factors to the disastrous coverage of Mars One was the human interest appeal. Almost no publication could resi...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Essential Kael

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I have a couple of posts in the draft stage and a few more in the back of my head that center on either quotes from Pauline Kael or discussi...

Keep an eye on the follow-up

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Check out Just what were Donald Trump’s ties to the mob? It's an excellent piece of investigative journalism by the reliable David Cay...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Where were we? Oh, yeah, the Hyperloop

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Before we get further into the story, there is an important aspect that has bizarrely gone unmentioned in most of the coverage of this . ...
Friday, May 20, 2016

I'm going to see how far I can go into this thread without using either the expressions "train wreck" or "perfect storm."

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The hyperloop seems almost designed to prey upon the press's weakness when it comes to engineering and technology. It's a story tha...
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