Wednesday, July 9, 2025

About that salute Elon gave...

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Apologies for reverting to this old format, but this is very much a tale told in tweets. Something very strange happened recently with Elon ...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

At the New Yorker, fact checking seems to be viewed as a personal choice

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 I've never really gotten what people saw in Adam Gopnik and we've been down this road with the New Yorker at least a couple of tim...
Monday, July 7, 2025

In case you skipped the news over your three-day weekend

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  WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - The dispute between Republican President Donald Trump and his main campaign financier Elon Musk took ano...
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Friday, July 4, 2025

Music for the 4h

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    Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to war in Europe was. And finall...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

It remains to be seen how much impact the changes in CEQA will have on housing sector, but it should certainly help the superfund sector.

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Here's an article about the California Environmental Quality Act roll-back that all of the YIMBYs were so happy about. Let's take a...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Checking in on Elon and the Big Beautiful Bill

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Don't worry—we're not going back to those massive tweet posts (for one thing, I frequently search the archives and realize what a pa...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Whenever anyone say theirs is the "actual Scientific Method," you should get nervous

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As they did with the increasingly obvious role of fascism in the GOP, journalists willfully refused to see what was going on in the worlds o...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Lalo Schifrin 1932 -- 2025

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Another film buff digression. Perhaps the most famous piece of music in 5/4 time.  (At least some of the movies inexplicably rearranged th...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Ed Zitron on remote work, Arthur C. Clarke on remote work, us on remote work

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 From " The Era Of The Business Idiot " A great example of our vibes-based society was back in October 2021, where a Washington P...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Fifteen years ago at the blog: We've been making tortured analogies here for over a decade.

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Auteur theory (particularly in its most naive, simplistic form) is having a bit of a moment, personified by Richard Brody at The New Yorker...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A Temu Waymo

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Before we get started, take a minute a watch this.  What the Tesla pumpers don't want you to see. [image or embed] — Tayray 🇦🇺 ( @tayr...