Friday, January 5, 2024

Politics and Jobs

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This is Joseph. So I think that this line of thinking is misguided: Why? Well, the first problem is that purity tests, in general, have a te...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Meet Dan O'Neill, the one person who still isn't allowed to draw Mickey Mouse

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Another post for copyright month. Gene Maddaus writing for Variety . Dan O’Neill was 53 years ahead of his time. In 1971, he launche...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The semi-emancipation of proto-Mickey

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So it finally happened. After countless successful battles involving armies lobbyists, Mickey Mouse is in the public domain... sort of. He...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024

The very idea of claiming a candidate a year before an election has X% chance of winning is gross statistical malpractice.

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[This has been sitting in the queue for a while but I think it still has another month or two on the sale-by date.] A couple of issues make ...
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Monday, January 1, 2024

Our Annual New Year's Greeting from Windsor McCay and Little Nemo

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  Make it a good one.
Friday, December 29, 2023

Twelve years ago at the blog -- We can debate whether LLMs are really learning languages but as long as we factor in cuteness, we will always have the edge.

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Friday, December 30, 2011 Yes, another talking baby video, now with informed commentary This is actually ...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Straussian collapse, feral disinformation, and the increasingly ineffectual GOP Establishment

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See here and here (both from 2017) for our previous Straussian thread, in particular, this. At some point though (I suspect inevitably), a...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Ten years ago at the blog -- the one time I told a major thought leader to go screw himself, Andrew Gelman decided to write a post on it.

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The annual party described below did not survive the pandemic, which was perhaps just as well. It had been going on forever and was already ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Boxing Day blogging - - Jay Powell's wonderful Christmas present and a test for American journalists

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 From Mike Konczal :   You are going to hear a lot of buts and qualifiers downplaying this news, but barring a major downward revision in t...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Merry Christmas from Little Nemo

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  And make sure to drive safely.
Friday, December 22, 2023

Maybe we should state all holidays as Eve powers

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Twelve years ago at the blog -- depressingly little has changed

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There has been some improvement. That excellent LA Times series has finally gotten ocean acidification into the conversation, but it is usua...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Bidenomics and the NYT: Revenge of the Petruchio liberals

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  With apologies to regular readers who have heard this too many times already. The New York Times has, more than any other news organizatio...
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

The NYT's Election Trilemma

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The dilemma the New York Times and other news organizations that follow its lead face with a Trump Biden matchup is genuinely painful for th...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

As we've said before, if you've gone through the holidays without hearing "Sugar Rum Cherry"...

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  ... you have not had a cool Christmas.