Monday, September 30, 2019

Overproduction of elites

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This is Joseph I was talking to Mark, and he noted that the elites in a lot of areas come from a surprisingly narrow background.  They all...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Imagining the future of 1960

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Always interesting to see how the various decades of the 20th Century viewed progress. We tend to focus on the turn of the century and the p...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

Trump and the GOP -- Jenga time

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'One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30 Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump' https://t.co/3FYff...

The Stag Hunt Framework

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I have a feeling this conversation is about to become relevant again, so this might be a good time to reintroduce some concepts. Tuesday,...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Twilight of the Unicorns -- WeWork ReCap

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I don't think I'll have enough time for this one. I've had years to point out the dubious claims and questionable business logic...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Bright 2's future not 2 Bright

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One of my little blogger's quirks is to make make mental notes of promised developments in stories I'm following, and to Google them...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Democracy

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This is Joseph There are two types of democracy that have been tried: direct democracy and representative democracy.  Direct democracy is ...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Though I have to admit it will be cool seeing Hanks driving the crawler

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We've previously made the point that many, perhaps most, of the technological breakthroughs that are presented as being just around the ...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Health Insurance Addiction

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This is Joseph This exchange on twitter was surreal : So, first of all, let me say for the record that there are a lot of drugs that ...
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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Michael Hiltzik eviscerates WeWork's business model.

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Hiltzik has always had a gift for seeing through bullshit narratives of transformation and disruption. Here he takes a hard look at WeWork ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Column: WeWork carries Silicon Valley's 'unicorn' craze to its absurd limits https://t.co/enA9TGpcG5 — Michael Hiltzik (...
Monday, September 16, 2019

Four years ago (more or less) -- Fringe candidates

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By this point, it has been widely acknowledged that the coverage of the 2016 campaign by the mainstream press was bad. There were certainly...
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Friday, September 13, 2019

Shaw on dirty money

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Not saying I agree with GBS on this (never entirely sure that he agrees with himself), but it does seem relevant to some recent debates. ...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

I always used pith helmets in my version, but other than that...

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Christopher Ingraham is a Washington Post writer who recently wrote a memoir about moving his family to a small town in Minnesota. He makes...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Eric Levitz: "On Climate, Sanders and Warren Must Go Nuclear"

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At the moment, the debate about the biggest problem facing our planet is centered on a masturbatory exercise over the appropriate tone to u...