Friday, November 10, 2023

Three years ago at the blog -- The Myth of the Wright Brothers

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Having covered yesterday the lies we tell ourselves about the Apollo program, let's take a look at another favorite. Tuesday, November 1...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

The myth of Apollo

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While it has become newly relevant , we've been on this beat for years now. The seductive notion that it is only our failure to dream b...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Your chance to see Martin Shkreli unironically say "Pay it forward."

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       Last Wednesday and Thursday , we started a thread on Marc Andreessen's “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (along with a bit of preh...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

More on the challenges of settlers

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This is Joseph. So as the current events in Israel/Gaza continue to be tragic, I do think that it is worth noting that the question of who &...
Monday, November 6, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog -- A lot has happened with over-the-air television since 2013

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When we first started writing about digital over-the-air television more than a dozen years ago and arguing that the industry was viable and...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Three Proposed Changes to Daylight Savings Time

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 The first (from XKCD's Randall Munroe) has some obvious issues. Monroe also suggests an alternate solution in the title text, averaging...
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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Following up on yesterday's post

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Via Scott Lemieux (" Checking in on the intellectual giants of Silicon Valley ") Max Read has perhaps the best analysis to date o...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

From the people who told you crypto was the next big thing...

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If you haven't already, you're probably going to be hearing a lot about techno-optimism in general and this manifesto by Marc Andre...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Five years ago at the blog -- with Techno-Optimism bullshit waxing, this is a good time to revisit two of the movement's favorite examples

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The "we've forgotten how to be great" crowd love to talk about the Apollo program and the Manhattan Project, but only in vague...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

Canadian Universities: the Quebec edition

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This is Joseph. Quebec is planning to double tuition for interprovincial students attending English universities, starting with the enterin...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog -- thinking about the self-evident

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 Looking back over this, I wish I would have spent more time on how much the obvious is a moving target. This is especially true with learni...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Thursday Tweets -- a lot of philanthropists insists on having things named after themselves

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This was going to be part of our regular tweets post, but I didn't it getting lost in the crowd. Even for Elon, this is some cartoonis...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

“The GOP is a failed state. Donald Trump is its warlord.”

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Following up on yesterday's post , One of the points raised in that post was that, in contrast to the Republicans... While the members o...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

What Republican Establishment?

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    Dems in Disarray — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 23, 2023   David Weakliem and Andrew Gelma n both posted a somewha...