Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Supply side reforms

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This is Joseph. Following up on Jan 27th's post about resilience, I want to really engage why supply side reforms are tricky. The Canad...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- TBH, I have trouble arguing against "unvaccinated sperm is the next Bitcoin"

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I know this isn't new information, but take a minute and let the following sink in: 1. While many in the mainstream press (particularl...
Friday, January 27, 2023

Resilience

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 This is Joseph I wanted to highlight this recent article by Chris Dillow . He doesn't use quite the examples that I would but it is ver...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

As Columbo might say, just one more thing about our previous post

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A few days ago, the New York Times Magazine ran a piece arguing that when Elon Musk put drivers' lives at risk with dangerous products,...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

"Elon Musk’s Appetite for Destruction" is nothing compared to his appetite for suckers

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NEW: Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the abilities of Tesla’s driver-assistance system Autopilot, even dict...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Understanding ChatGPT

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From the Kids in the Hall:
Monday, January 23, 2023

Reposted for no particular reason.

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Monday, December 7, 2020 On the bright side, how much damage could one of the world's three richest men with...
Friday, January 20, 2023

We needed that

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From SF meteorologist Drew Tuma. Start of September... To mid-January.
Thursday, January 19, 2023

"Has it really been ten years" ago at the blog -- When 3D printing was just about to change everything

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Don't get me wrong. This is amazing technology with incredible promise, especially in the field of medicine, but it's probably not o...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

A Primer on the Western Water Crisis

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ProPublica investigative reporter Abrahm Lustgarten has written around a couple of dozen articles exploring the complex problems facing the...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Is this conversation from 2019 something we need to revisit?

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I don't know enough about this to offer an opinion about this, but if we're entering an age of drought and deluge, I want to hear ab...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Have a safe and contemplative Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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 “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”  
Friday, January 13, 2023

I am oddly comforted by the thought that British foodies might be more annoying than American foodies

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More from David Mitchell's Soapbox
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- King Elon's Mines

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When members of the Musk family disagree, you don't know who to disbelieve, at least until someone starts digging up old interviews.  Hu...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Transit times

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This is Joseph. This tweet by Matthew Yglesias  is getting at something that I think is really underrated in transit policy: I have lived la...
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