Friday, October 31, 2025

Halloween Deep Cuts

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Having gone off on content farms, I should probably explain why,  despite cranking out a ton of videos What Culture is actually one of the g...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

"Back in my day, the internet was really something."

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The fundamental challenge of the internet has always been a variation on the old Steven Wright line: “You can’t have everything. Where would...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

It's important to note these Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether moments

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One of these days, we’ll have to have a serious, extended discussion about the complex dynamics and interlocking ecosystems of conspiracy th...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Notes on Mr. Arkadin

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 [The world's second richest man may be buying yet another storied Hollywood studio so I've been working through the Warners catalog...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Boyle's slightly less pessimistic take on the Gen AI bubble.

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We've been beating the AI bubble quite a bit lately, partially because the widespread belief that there's a bubble is a story in its...
Friday, October 24, 2025

"Did you hear the one about the huge bubble threatening to take down the economy?"

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Normally, you would expect investors to be more easily spooked as talk of a bubble became increasingly ubiquitous, but whatever the investor...
Thursday, October 23, 2025

A bubble story that's not about AI.

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First, the obligatory disclaimers: Nothing I'm about to say or have ever said about housing should be taken as a blanket condemnation of...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Cheering for fire trucks and crossing with the light- - notes on a Portlandia/Spirit Halloween protest.

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As promised, here's how I spent my Saturday afternoon.  LA is huge, and I didn’t feel like dealing with the traffic or parking that woul...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Tweet-posting History

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In a day or two, I’ll have a first-hand account from one of the Los Angeles No Kings protests, but for today I thought I’d do a big-picture...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Corollary: when comics started printing "Collector's Edition" on the cover, they ceased being financially worth collecting.

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    If you look up a copy of the Overstreet Price Guide from 1990 on the Internet Archive, you will find a large number of 25- to 35-year-o...
Friday, October 17, 2025

There's an ongoing war against the very concepts of public domain and fair use and it's something we should be talking about.

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I realize you've got a lot on your plate and I'm constantly coming up with more things to worry about, but major media companies suc...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

And you thought consultants were overpaid before...

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  “Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Fourteen years ago at the blog: the "a pervasive fetish" line actually holds up better today than it did then

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From " The Rot-Com Bubble " by Ed Zitron.  The noxious growth-at-all-costs mindset of the Rot Economy sits at the core of every ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Eleven years ago at the blog: This one had legs

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This recent post by Andrew Gelman about billionaire Bill Ackman got me thinking about an exchange we had a little over 11 years ago, which ...
Monday, October 13, 2025

NYT on the SAT -- then and now

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  2014         2024 We are definitely in hot dog suit meme territory here.     The New York Times was very much at the forefront of this war...