Wednesday, May 31, 2017

War on Science -- part [really big number]

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From the Washington Post: White House budget aims to ‘slow’ gains in weather prediction, shocking forecasters By Jason Samenow May 2...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

For most politicians, the assault -- strike that -- the creationist dinosaur museum would be a low point

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[I really should have researched this one more thoroughly.] Being both a plutocrat and fanatical Christian fundamentalist requires a high...
Monday, May 29, 2017

In memory

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Friday, May 26, 2017

Keeping Mr. Magoo out of Class Foghorn Leghorn

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Josh Marshall has frequently compared Donald Trump to the character Mr. Magoo . That got me to wondering how many people out there have act...
Thursday, May 25, 2017

For most candidates, the assault would be a low point

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The threads are converging like crazy on this one . We've got your crazy tech millionaire. We've got your GOP candidate wildly ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Let's hope "zombie companies" don't become a zombie idea

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The OECD has a certain reassuring predictability. When explaining a perceived crisis, they will conclude that the country needs reforms and...
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

The genre is sci-fi. The business model is fantasy.

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One of the hallmarks of a bubble is the strange inversion of perceived risk. You get to a point where, for the people driving the bubble, th...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Bialystock's Paradox and von Hoffman's Dead Rat Problem

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[Brief caveat. I have only a cursory knowledge of Watergate so I may be getting some of the history wrong. Fortunately, most of my readers ...
Friday, May 19, 2017

Understanding Ailes

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This Gawker (R.I.P) article does an excellent job showing the connection between Ailes, the Nixon White House and the beginnings of the soci...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Content Bubble and the Consideration Deficit

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I probably need to do a deep dive one of these days and explore the connection between the content bubble and the larger story of how hype ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

$99,744,920

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There is a huge distinction between the automobile industry (even the specialized area of electric vehicles) and the aerospace industry. The...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

How things got this bad -- part 4,675

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I was digging through the archives researching an upcoming post and I came across a link from 2014. It led to a Talking Points Memo article ...

Follow me on Twitter (no, I really mean it this time)

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I know I haven't been the best tweeter in the past. I played with the idea now and then of being more active, but, given the huge backlo...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Using the outcome as a conditioning variable

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This is Joseph. Felix Salmon has a great comment on Facebook and Female Coders : To spell it out: The more your code is rejected, at Fac...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Josh Marshall has my favorite ready-to-mix metaphor of the whole sordid affair

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As a fan of the extravagantly mixed metaphor, I wish Marshall had jammed these two together , but they are both good enough to stand alone,...