Friday, July 30, 2021

Andy and the anti-vaxxer

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It's useful to step back from time to time and remind ourselves just how far beyond precedent the Republican party has drifted. The foll...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

The Greatest Post-Script in TED Talk History

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I wish I'd known about this video before I wrote the post. Scam artists locking in on citizen science was another one we should have...
Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Counterfactuals and age

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This is Joseph. I was reading Andrew Gelman's post on potential outcomes  and it reminded me of the classic problem with this parameter ...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Feral Disinformation and Sane Vampires

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Quick recap: For the story behind referring to dishonest people who pretend to believe crazy ideas, see here and here . The other term was ...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Feral Disinformation

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Another one for the lexicon. Disinformation has gone feral when: 1. It is no longer in the control of the group that created it. 2. It has c...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

For those of you who joined us recently (after 2013), I thought I'd rerun this favorite passage from Pauline Kael

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  In 1971, people took film so seriously that they actually starting taking film criticism seriously. Critics were major celebrities. They a...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Tony Soprano was a piker

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  “Once you know how it all ends, the only use of time is…how do I buy more bitcoin? But take all your money and buy bitcoin. Then take all ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Hiltzik on Robinhood

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One of the fundamental lies of early 21st century investing is that making it easier and cheaper to play the markets with tools including a ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Monday Tweets

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🤬فقط في مصر 🤬 pic.twitter.com/omo4Im5hwU — Error 404 (@Error4019082820) July 11, 2021 One of the lessons of the education reform m...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Marshall (almost) goes there

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Let's just get this out of the way at the top.  There is no way to have a blanket objection to the filibuster in principle and not objec...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

One Twitter thread and one tweet. Presented without comment.

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And un grand nudge à la française already at work this evening. Macron announces tight upcoming restrictions for the unvaxxed (no restaurant...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

"Musk is not in it for the money."

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[For the source of the quote ...] From a product standpoint, SolarCity isn't a very interesting company. Tesla has made some impressiv...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

I have to admit, that’s one future of work development we didn’t see coming

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Remote work wasn't a very sexy topic back when we first started talking about it a few years ago . All of the cool kids were into urban ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Perhaps "the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning systems available" is something we should be talking about

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But of course we aren't. It's a mature, proven technology that could substantial decrease the energy we use on heating and cooling a...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Friday Tweets

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See how we’re celebrating being part of the Hyundai Motor Group! Check out Spot meeting BTS at @Hyundai_Global and visit our blog for the ...
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