Friday, October 30, 2020

A few quick lunch time notes on making sense of the early and “late” votes -- UPDATED

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Here’s how I’m framing this. Very much looking for feedback Think of the following groups: 1. Vote on election day 2. Vote early in person 3...

Are Nate and Elliot and Andrew klever enough to kope with a K

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Many years ago in Paris, Arkansas, there was a small shop owned by a local family named Kafka. I never met them and have no idea what relati...
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Thursday, October 29, 2020

Rethinking modeling assumptions in 2020

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  #earlyvote afternoon update 10/25 At least 59 million people have voted in the 2020 general election 🥳 https://t.co/s8K2xFDeSA pic.tw...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Wednesday Tweets -- these anti-mask activists really get in your face

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This is SO 2020 that I have to retweet it. A new game. Born only this year. And...a happy laughing baby. https://t.co/zPofSp4K2p — Joan...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020

The good news about Tesla's Full Self Driving technology is that it's not advanced enough to lull you into a false sense of security

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Interesting companion piece to yesterday's post on Tesla's disturbing beta rollout of FSD. It promises that the driver has to do alm...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The autonomous driving equivalent to Elon's bolting wheels on the side of the car

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One of the foundational beliefs of 21st century tech narratives is that the biggest obstacles to innovation are legal. If not for lawyers an...
Friday, October 23, 2020

The standard narrative on the Uri Geller/Amazing Randi conflict comes from the New York Times, which apparently got it from Uri Geller

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RIP Randall James Hamilton Zwinge James Randi, a magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such vora...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Farewell, Quibi. We hardly had time to mock you

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When rich, successful  people raise huge amounts of money for undeniably stupid business ideas, there is a natural tendency to assume that i...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The war on data revisited -- Again, Trump says the quiet part out loud

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Eight years, we made the following argument. To coin a phrase, if the masses can't handle the truth and need instead to be fed a versio...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

You could argue that 2020 was scary enough as is

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I realized that I haven't done any Halloween posts this year so here are some outstanding chillers from the Golden Age of Radio.    Star...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Repost -- checking in on the work-from-home thread

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From Marketplace :  “I think it’s also … this newfound freedom for many people that now can work from anywhere,” Schuler said. “They’re pick...
Friday, October 16, 2020

"The stakes are too high..."

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 A few more from '64.              
Thursday, October 15, 2020

US Supreme Court

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 This is Joseph The US Supreme Court has been a source of odd thinking, lately  Josh Marshall has a post about how a reader suspects that J...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

From Dennis the Menace to Vlad the Impaler

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You might call this the flip-side of our Trash, Art and the Comics post. There we talked about  gaining insights into a period through its ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Tuesday Tweets -- if you held a gun to Werner Herzog's head...

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Watch the whole thing. In which Werner Herzog gives the an incredible answer when asked how many languages he speaks pic.twitter.com/BOdU...