Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Tuesday Tweets -- Special Edition

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I'm planning on coming back and filling in some ideas about how things got this bad, but I think the overall pattern is pretty obvious w...
Monday, December 6, 2021

Just got boosted...

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No ill effects so far, but I'm using this as an excuse to take things easy and sit in the California sun. See you Tuesday. . . ...
Friday, December 3, 2021

Elon Musk may not fully grasp the magnitude of the problem

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"All in all, more than 500 such "fragmentation events" have created nearly 130 million bits of debris in Earth's orbit. ...
Thursday, December 2, 2021

Five years ago at the blog -- the rise of secular evangelicals laid the foundation for the cult of Trump

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2016 Tom Hanks, creepy CGI Santa Clauses, and the theological canary in the coal mine I've been making the point f...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

"But real estate investing in the metaverse still is highly speculative, and no one knows for sure whether this boom is the next big thing or the next big bubble." Actually, I'm pretty sure I know.

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Debra Kamin writing for the NYT . and making Mark Zuckerberg very happy. Money in these digital worlds is cryptocurrency, as finance in the...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Why I despair sometimes of improving things.

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This is Joseph. This is German Lopez : Part of the issue here is that "criminal justice reform" is a huge area, ranging from ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Great example of sarcasm in chart form

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Jamie Powell of FT Alphaville points us to this wonderful Twitter exchange between Cameron Winklevoss and Joe Weisenthal. Here's Powell ...
Friday, November 26, 2021

Actual engineering is cool

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Great example of problem solving and iteratively modifying designs to overcoming increasingly difficult challenges. 
Thursday, November 25, 2021

"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 uses ...
Wednesday, November 24, 2021

'Spatiotemporal analysis" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but you should still read this

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Earlier in our housing thread, we suggested that a site for urban densification should be largely judged based on how many potential jobs ar...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Why gun vigilantism is so problematic

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This is Joseph. Consider this tweet by Josh Marshall : Or this one by an internet commentator : In both cases you have an issue with demarca...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Mainly just an excuse to run a cool video

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From the Atlantic : Today, SpaceX regularly flies astronauts into orbit on a transportation system it designed from start to finish, and is ...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Gerontocracy

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This is Joseph. Pat Leahy is retiring from the Senate after 48 years of service at the end of this current term. He was 34 years old when h...
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Thursday, November 18, 2021

A literal sign of the times

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Sam Dean reporting for the LA Times : Staples Center is getting a new name for Christmas: Crypto.com Arena. The downtown Los Angeles venue —...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

In their report on the carbon footprint of food choices, All Things Considered fails to consider all sorts of important things

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I can't excerpt the relevant parts of this NPR piece because they left those out.  Given a major, reoccurring question, journali...