Thursday, July 13, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog: for a while it looked like this tweet was going to age badly

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 The mid-teens were not a good time to be a Disney skeptic. The company had a very good run and to be honest, I might have been a little les...
Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The bad news is that the NYT is still credulously accepting Uri Geller's dubious version of events; the good news is that the rest of the latest article is so terrible that this part no longer seems so bad.

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It's going to take more than one post to describe just how bad David Segal's profile of fake psychic Uri Geller is, lousy with pseu...
Tuesday, July 11, 2023

An incredibly well-kept and badly kept secret

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Picking up from where we left off with Extraordinary claims (used to) require extraordinary evidence OR the gray lady and the little green m...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

Once you told us you have aliens' bodies and spaceships the size of football fields, it's hard to get excited about some tiny metal balls

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But the press is giving it their best shot.                           Avi Loeb, is one of the world's leading astrophysicists, but recen...
Friday, July 7, 2023

Spoilers for NetFlix's the Diplomat (Big Spoilers -- you are warned)

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This is Joseph. At the end of Game of Thrones, I was shocked out of the political thriller by a decision to appoint a very poorly set up cha...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- there is no joy in Muskville

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Spoke to my wife while twitter was down. She seems nice. A nurse apparently — Raheel (@raheels88) July 1, 2023   If you know the story up t...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Yes, the New York Times owns the UFO fiasco

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Though we've talked about this before in Extraordinary claims (used to) require extraordinary evidence OR the gray lady and the little g...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

A 4th of July musical interlude

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Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to war in Europe was. And...
Monday, July 3, 2023

Notes on Titan

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This was originally going to be part of an earlier Thursday Tweets, but that post was written and scheduled on Wednesday and the fate or t...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Tweets -- "“I would totally kick your ass, but my mom won’t let me." or "I wanted to be prepared for when I have my first psychotic break"

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(Sometimes you just can't decide on a title.) More fun with RFK jr (including the inevitable crypto moment). Are we sure he's runni...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

A few thought's on Mark's post

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This is Joseph. Mark has an excellent post . Go read it, this reply will wait. Ok, I have a couple of thoughts here. One of them is that the...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Five years ago at the blog: unfortunately, this isn't as relevant now that the hype storm over AI has passed

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  Tuesday, June 26, 2018 I'm afraid even the Brothers Grimm would have found Bitcoin a little too fantastic ...