Tuesday, February 15, 2022

If there's a company that should be associated with eating lightbulbs, this would probably be it.

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 You just know they pitched it as 'edgy'...  From the Washington Post : Uber Eats wants America to know that it delivers more t...
Monday, February 14, 2022

FOMOAOBLD -- Fear of missing out and of being Larry David

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I generally hate the focus on Superbowl commercials. It's a cynical, astro-turfed ploy to up the advertising multiplier, made worse by t...
Friday, February 11, 2022

Sorry about another tweet-post, but toiletgate just couldn't wait

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Earlier today, some big revelations about the mishandling and illegal disposal of documents by the former president made the news, partly be...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

We'll give Cartman the last word

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[For those not familiar with the layered awfulness of Web3, see here , here , here , and here ] You might have expected people to come out o...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Wednesday Tweets (and a few quick thoughts on Twitter)

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There is a lot about Twitter that falls in the bad to indefensible range. You could make a pretty good case that we'd all be better off ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Ten Years ago at the blog

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I would add that Fauci has been targeted in part because he has such towering credibility and is so persuasive. — Norman Ornstein (@NormO...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Canadian Truckers, Tyler Cowen's views

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This is Joseph Tyler Cowen has his own set of thoughts on the Canadian Truckers But the movement may well end up as the most consequential s...

Canadian Truckers

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This is Joseph. As of Friday, Feb 4th, Truckers and assorted right wing persons have been holding an anti-vaccine blockade of the Canadian c...
Friday, February 4, 2022

Web one, two, three . . .

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This is Joseph. As I understand it, Web 1 is the original internet tools (e.g., email) that were completely distributed. The downside of the...
Thursday, February 3, 2022

Winter again in the Lone Star State

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And it's starting to look a lot like the last one. Which means threads with winter advice both standard... If you're a Texan a...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The FSD plot might be thickening...

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First off, apologies for two tweet-based posts in a row, but things appear to be breaking quickly on this story.  A few years ago, Tesla shi...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Tuesday Crypto Tweets -- Looking forward to the Matt Damon/Ben McKenzie cage match

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Damon's an action star but McKenzie's younger and there was that time Jim Gordon punched that guy's face off* so it could go e...