Friday, November 8, 2024

“I feel like I’m the wellness Lorax,”

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I obviously have no special insight into what goes on in the minds of the rich, but I have to assume that in a society that bends over backw...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Four years ago at the blog I meant to write a "ten years ago at the blog"

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Ten years ago at the blog we had a post on a trick for cooking banking metrics based on combining different data sources that mature at diff...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The World's Greatest 404 Page

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From the Financial Times:
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

November 5th, 2024

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Looks like it's time to wrap things up on the election. We have a few threads with some posts still sitting in the scheduled or draft fo...
Monday, November 4, 2024

Josh Marshall on the difference between close and uncertain

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This has been a recurring theme of the discussions Joseph and I have been having about the election. When the question of how things were go...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Twelve years ago on the blog -- the war on data still seems pretty relevant

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Dharna Noor writing for the Guardian : Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Martians and Metadata -- a Halloween themed repost

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 [From Wednesday, October 30, 2013] Just in case you don't know the story : The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Introducing the Shafer Algorithm for Covering Journalists' Ethical Lapses

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[Written 9/30/24] Just as the Nuzzi story started to deflate, Ben Smith managed to pump it back up I had hoped to avoid writing about la...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Michael C. Bender is basically a Theodore H. White A.I.

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[I wrote this before the events in Springfield, but I think this piece has aged considerably better than Bender's so I'm running it ...
Monday, October 28, 2024

10 years ago at the blog – – this one's gotten more relevant along at least a couple of dimensions

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Obviously, anything having to do with the Ebola outbreak will take on an added significance given what happened a few years later, but the p...
Friday, October 25, 2024

More Mort

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Mort Sahl Mocks The Presidential Candidates in The Upcoming 1968 Election
Thursday, October 24, 2024

A traditional Republican's case against Dobbs

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Highly recommended video from Tim Miller of the Bulwark. There are at least a couple of reasons you should watch this. First, the ads shown ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Abortion -- Secondary and Tertiary Effects

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One of the points we have been hammering for a long time now is that much, possibly even most of the impact of the Dobbs ruling will come fr...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Ten years ago at the blog -- turns out this wasn't nearly the stupidest thing Marc Andreessen was saying.

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 A quick google search shows that 2014 was the year that Andreessen went big on Bitcoin. Crypto wasn't on our radar at the time, but had...