Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Whatever they paid Goldsmith, it wasn't enough; whatever they paid Bricusse, it was too much

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 Pop culture time here at the blog. I have a certain, slightly embarrassing fondness for James Coburn’s Flint films. Not exactly good, but f...
Monday, April 6, 2026

Never a good sign for journalistic objectivity when the reporter says "Wow"

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 ... particularly when it's a story about robots.  From Planet Money   JUSTIN KRAMON, BYLINE: We're standing in a restaurant kitchen...
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Friday, April 3, 2026

Probably even worse than you realized

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Historian Bret Devereaux (who has been on our must read list for a long time) has posted the best military overview of the war I've see...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

The Double Taco -- updated

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Groundhog Day: Trump saw his shadow, so there’s going to be two to three more weeks of war. (Trying to remember—what happened around 9:00 Ea...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

I know I said this before, but this is the last one, I promise.

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RAPIDAN: “.. Trump will struggle to declare victory with Iran controlling Hormuz, the regime largely intact, and still in control of .. hig...
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

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 I know we've been banging this drum for a long time and I realize that I keep promising to move on, but the disconnect between market ...
Monday, March 30, 2026

Introducing the Trump Pressure Index

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From Axios :  How it works: Maximilian Uleer, a strategist at Deutsche Bank, came up with a "pressure index" that considers the ...
Friday, March 27, 2026

I've started a new drinking game where I take a shot whenever a tech bro uses the term "Kardashev scale."

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(Though to be honest, it's less of a game and more of a coping mechanism.) There’s a great quote from an actual authority on the histor...
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Yes, I know I said we'd drop the subject, but that was before I knew the Onion was going to pick it up.

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[Click here for our last post in this thread ] You should really click through on this one. theonion.com/markets-surg... [image or embed] —...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Today in 11-year-old hyperloop news

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I was feeling a bit nostalgic, so I thought we could look back at the world before "the fifth mode" changed everything. (Make sure...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Another angle on housing costs

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This is the long absent Joseph. I was talking to Mark and one element of the emerging crisis of affordably housing we discussed was eviction...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

"[I]sn't necessarily a systemic catastrophe" is not the most comforting of phrases.

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 As Neil Young once said about one of his albums, don't listen to this in the morning. It'll ruin your whole day.  Patrick Boyle is ...
Friday, March 20, 2026

Yes, I am about to unironically post a Joe Rogan interview with Ben Affleck.

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I have to admit, I’ve always been a bit mystified by Ben Affleck, movie star. Not that he’s a bad actor by any means, but his performances t...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

I read the Financial Times because of its sharp insights, witty prose, and the fact that they have writers with names like Robin Wigglesworth

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More on the approaching SpaceX IPO scam. The definitive explainer remains the Patrick Boyle video that we discussed Monday , but if you pref...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Blah blah Ginger blah blah blah

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The following quote comes from the distinguished computer scientist  Yann LeCun , but I've heard others in the field say virtually the s...
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