Wednesday, May 10, 2023

What the experts used to say about streaming -- part 1

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 Lots of examples to follow, but before we get into the state of the industry,  here are a few notes on what pundits and analysts were sayin...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Everything you used to hear about streaming was wrong. Now it's only most things.

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I'll try not to be too much of a dick about this, but there are going to be a lot of I told you sos in the upcoming thread on the state ...
Monday, May 8, 2023

When they get to the part about nobody seeing this coming

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 If you follow the news on the writers' strike, you're going to be hearing a lot about the business of streaming, including how unsu...
Friday, May 5, 2023

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- sometimes it's easier to sell the solution people know they don't understand

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Three good threads from Paul Krugman discussing the administration's options for dealing with the debt limit hostage situation (though y...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

The Snows of May

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Some more notes on the weather... First off, when this post goes up on the blog, it will be snowing in the mountains to the east .  Snow lev...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" -- Neom was just the beginning for MBS

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“Let’s talk about something other than women driving. The NEOM project, the futuristic city that he (the crown prince) plans to invest hal...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Always take a minute to think about the source of your data

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Monday, May 1, 2023

Marketplace -- brought to you by American Public Media and the good people at the Koch Foundation [Updated]

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Before we get started, I just want to go on the record with this: Marketplace is the best daily news show on public radio by a clear margin....
Friday, April 28, 2023

The prize for best analogy of the week goes to Matt Levine

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Actually last week but I'm playing catch-up. From the April 19th newsletter [emphasis added] But yesterday’s hearing undermines my view....
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- Elmo and Sneetches

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When we first started mocking the "great news for DeSantis" meme, we were taking a fairly controversial position. Then the winds ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Revisiting the Red Tsunami -- in which I (sorta) defend the pundits from Andrew Gelman

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(Or at least spread the blame around) I am, for obvious reasons, reluctant to challenge Andrew on questions about polling and political scie...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Had to get there before the snowmelt started and you have to worry about flash floods

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Finally did some hiking in the Alabama Hills .    That's the east side of Mount Whitney. The estimates I've heard have the melt cont...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Ponderings about ancient Rome

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This is Joseph. So I love analogies with ancient Rome and I love the works of Bret Devereaux , an academic famous for making it clear to me ...