Thursday, December 5, 2019

If you built your Potemkin village entirely out of houses of cards

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For a while now, we've been working toward a theory of how VC culture and practices can actually undermine innovation, perhaps even to t...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

These stories are a lot funnier when the victims are Silicon Valley VCs and the Saudi sovereign wealth fund

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We could have a long philosophical conversation about the distinction between a security based on records on a secured server and one based ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Which could explain why it looks like a DeLorean hatchback -- Tuesday Tweets

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The real reason for the unpainted stainless Cybertruck decision is *hushed voice* disruption. This is unprecedented innovation, folks...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Perhaps the part about the laws of economics not applying should have been a tip off.

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Excellent article by Gabriel Sherman who is definitely the kind of writer you'd want on this beat. There is, however, one theme I'...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Flaky New Age conspiracy theories are becoming more relevant. Here's some historical context [repost]

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Monday, June 18, 2018 The idea of ancient astronauts is a bit more ancient than I realized. Another interesting nugget I came a...
Friday, November 29, 2019

Our annual Toys-for-Tots post

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A good Christmas can do a lot to take the edge off of a bad year both for children and their parents (and a lot of families are having a...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

"As God as my witness..." is my second favorite Thanksgiving episode line [Repost]

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If you watch this and you could swear you remember Johnny and Mr. Carlson discussing Pink Floyd, you're not imagining things. Hulu ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

In LA, we're dreaming of a white Thanksgiving

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From the Los Angeles Times : A “broad swath of precipitation” is expected to blanket Los Angeles County and surrounding areas starting ea...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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There was a brief period twenty-plus years ago when graphing calculators made some pedagogical sense, but that period is long over. I us...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Worst moral hazard argument ever (and that's a competitive field)

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One of the more amusing subnarratives (in a schadenfreude way)  of the impeachment story has been the efforts of what we might call the Broo...
Friday, November 22, 2019

A couple of thoughtful video essays by Bob Chipman

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To be a good popular art commentator in 2019 you have to have a deep understanding of nerd culture combined with strong critical detachment....
Thursday, November 21, 2019

When your opponents face a no-win scenario, it's in your interest to see that they finish the game

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Picking this up from Tuesday ... One of the reasons the impeachment is such a dilemma for the GOP is that it requires officials to take ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Another example of Left/Right convergence

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One of these days, I’m going to write a big bomb-throwing post proposing that political scientists should completely abandon the use of the ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Tuesday Tweets

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Lots of topics I need to revisit one of these days. Describing your own paper's work as "deeply reported" is so New York...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Fun with Political Trivia

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This picks up on a recent thread (telling which one might be too much of a clue). The ones and zeros represent a trait of Democratic candida...