Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Coming soon to a theater near you...

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I'm sure Musk will deal with this with the grace and dignity we've come to expect.   Steven Zeitchik writing for the Hollywood Repor...
Monday, September 7, 2026

It's Labor Day, so we're taking time off and running a repost

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  It's Labor Day weekend so let's stop by Emma Goldman's ice-cream shoppe in Worcester for a hot fudge sundae and some anarchy. ...
Friday, September 4, 2026

"An analyst at JP Morgan described the approach as being like paying your mortgage with your credit card, which is unkind, but it's also basically what it is."

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I realize we recommend a lot of Patrick Boyle videos but this is one of the best walk-throughs of one of the most important news stories of ...
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Elites in America

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This is Joseph.  This article got me thinking about the idea of elites. Because I am actually in agreement with one major thread here, whic...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Will Fusion Fizzle?

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Following up on our previous post.   As is always the case with technologies that are still on the horizon, reasonable estimates of timeline...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Fusion hype has a familiar ring to it

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We'll be coming back to this Holdren essay and what it says about techno-optimists' fascination with fusion, but for now, but for no...
Monday, August 31, 2026

It is notable that the illustration for the FT article is a literal Pie in the Sky (but given that we're talking about Brits here, it's probably filled with eels or blackbirds or something weird like that)

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From the WSJ : SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO tested the limits of an obscure financial metric. Anthropic’s could push it even further. The m...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Apparently they don't get MeTV in Florida

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Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida paren...
Thursday, August 27, 2026

Which is weirder, the fact that the president just suggested he might use a military intervention to stabilize the bond market, or the fact that almost no one seemed to notice?

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When I say no one, obviously I don't mean social media, where for every event you can find someone who made a note of it. Reporter on B...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

All roads lead to Cushing*

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*Probably the first time in the history of Oklahoma that anyone has attempted to compare Cushing to Rome. Some random quotes and a few stra...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Saying something nice about Claude

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I have been accused of being overly negative about AI, particularly large language models, and I have my share of issues with the technology...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

October 28, 2016, was arguably the pivotal moment in the career of Elon Musk

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From D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail : As announced by Electrek today , Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof ti...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Friday video/podcast recommendations -- Carl Brown edition

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We've recommended Brown's videos before. They are nothing special from a presentation point of view -- you can pretty much just trea...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use while huge corporations try to sue the Internet Archive out of business.

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This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026

"I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody." --- James Carville (with the mandatory AI angle, of course)

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This is a big story, certainly bigger than you might have guessed from the coverage. Smart commentators like Patrick Boyle and the Financial...