Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Any conversation about electability has got to start with the fact that a white male has not won the popular vote since 2004.

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The electoral discussion among pundits and data journalists has been taking some especially silly turns of late and before the bullshit accu...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Tuesday Tweets -- “rapid unplanned disassembly“ edition

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The hyperloop achieved an impressive top speed shortly before “rapid unplanned disassembly“. You could get the same outcome much more c...
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Taking on the votes-don't-matter meme -- the EC doesn't always follow the popular vote, but that's the way the smart money should bet

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And once again we are in the silly season. First off, a quick disclaimer: You can never reasonably dismiss an incumbent president's ch...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Family Friendly?

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This is Joseph. This tweet makes an excellent point : The context was the cost of summer camps when you have two working parents, wi...
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Wonder when they stopped running Thunderbirds reruns in South Africa.

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Listening to this, I can't help but try  and reconstruct the conversations he had with the actual engineers who tried to explain these i...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Trickle-down innovation

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This is Joseph I think that this might be the single worst argument in health care today : The slowdown in pharmaceutical innovation is...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Hype Economy runs on faith -- more on Netflix

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I was going to run something on this Bloomberg piece , then life got busy and a few weeks passed and soon a number of other posts (includin...
Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Tuesday Tweets -- One Small Step

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People want to make this a story of inspiration and working together, the truth is a bit less feel-good but perhaps more instructive. ...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Netflix represents the overlap of the two great traditions of creative accounting-- Hollywood and Silicon Valley

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[I scheduled this a few days ago. Eventful days .] Since writing this, I've run the story past a number of people who have worked with...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

More Apollo reblogging

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Monday, June 11, 2018 An alternate narrative of JFK's commitment to the moon [I would love some pushback on this. The followi...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Repost: Some context for the Apollo Anniversary

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Thursday, November 8, 2018 A few points on Willy Ley and "the Conquest of Space" To understand the 21st century narrative a...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Remembering the Moonshot

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A bit of debunking... And a bit of history . And this. From Wikipedia : Man Will Conquer Space Soon! was the...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Though I have to admit, Alex Jones' chocolate bone broth looks delicious

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Paul Krugman's excellent op-ed uses Rick Perlstein's seminal the Long Con as a starting point to discuss the role of Sna...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Repost for the Death of a Dog Whistle

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Back during the run-up to the election, we had a long thread on the way that conservative movement media strategy and self-serving, short-s...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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The lesson here is, when you see something obviously stupid on Twitter, go back and reread it carefully before tweeting your dismissive c...