Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Victimless crimes

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This is Joseph.  One interesting development in the Trump justice process, despite his generally favorable treatment, is that it challenges ...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Twelve years ago at the blog -- a rare double post day on the growth fetish.

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Of course, the 2012 me had no idea what kind of VC-driven insanity the 2024 me would witness. Thursday, March 22, 2012 ...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Is it money that matters? -- More Data Points

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Remember what we've been saying about range of data? To the extent that political scientists understand the effect of money on elections...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Six(ish) years ago at the blog -- with Elon it's always déjà vu all over again

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Starship will have a small spin on the way to Mars. Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024 ...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

A few Wednesday morning data points

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As we've discussed at some length, there is a strange inconsistency in much of the mainstream media's coverage of the election (actu...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

A couple of more red flags for "the Tesla of education companies"

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Something about this tweet was familiar... First story with @NehaWadekar is here https://t.co/2Hair2LKEY — Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) March 14,...
Monday, March 18, 2024

No, the AARO report shouldn't make you more of a believer in alien visitors

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When talking about alien visitation believers, Tyler Cowen is definitely one of the sharp ones.  He's a smart guy.  As far as I can tell...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

This clip has pi, Trump, Elon and "a nearly decade-long conspiracy to breed 'giant sheep hybrids,'" how can I not post it?

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Pretty much average for a Colbert monologue, but it connects with four of our favorite topics. (how does the fourth tie in? Check out the ar...
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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Finally, a constitutional crisis we can have some fun with

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This was originally part of our Tuesday tweets post, but I decided the ETs deserved a spot of their own. UFO believers have been having a ba...
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Twelve years ago at the blog -- independence vs. contrarianism

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 We really should have come back to this one more often. We also should have spent more time reminding everyone what a terrible writer, thin...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Ramifications of a bust-out

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A "bust out" is a fraud tactic, commonly used in the organized crime world, wherein a business' assets and lines of credit are...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024

"Elon Musk won the New Republic's Man of the Year?" "Close" -- the return of Tuesday tweets

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Polls... Still can't get over this. FL Atlantic Univ released a poll of Minnesota with a sample size of 125 people; Vermont 111; Colora...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Reposted as a protest against losing an hour of weekend.

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 Three Proposed Changes to Daylight Savings Time  The first (from XKCD's Randall Munroe) has some obvious issues. Monroe also sugg...
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Friday, March 8, 2024

"Better than Ezra"

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Like Frank Bruni, Ezra Klein is a good soldier. I doubt that deep down Klein believes that we really need to seriously entertain claims of w...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

How the New York Times defines bias (sorry I took so long to get around to this one)

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Former NYT editorial page editor James Bennet's book length op-ed is stunningly bad by every standard we would conventionally use to j...
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