Friday, October 30, 2026

Multi-media Friday -- three videos and a podcast

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Solid interview of Ed Zitron by Jon Stewart. Not a lot new here for those of us who already have an unhealthy fixation on the AI bubble (you...
Thursday, October 29, 2026

The downside of getting hundreds of millions from Elon Musk is that it comes from Elon Musk -- part 3

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Picking up from here and here .  I didn't mean for this to be a series but I keep coming across more news stories that illustrate the p...
Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Probably the only Herbie Popnecker/aerospace history post you'll read all week

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 I keep meaning to do a long post on arguably the ultimate Silver Age cult comic, Herbie, a bizarre, out of nowhere character created by a j...
Tuesday, October 27, 2026

The downside of getting hundreds of millions from Elon Musk is that it comes from Elon Musk -- part 2

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Even the NYT noticed.  Following up from Friday. NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of th...
Monday, October 26, 2026

A bad time to be a prognosticator

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Early Sunday afternoon at LGM .   If today’s election in Serbia offers potential grounds for optimism, Brazil should take care of that. The ...
Friday, October 23, 2026

The downside of getting hundreds of millions from Elon Musk is that it comes from Elon Musk

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We'll see how this plays out -- carpet-bombing anti-Democrat attack ads in Texas has been an effective strategy for thirty years now -- ...
Thursday, October 22, 2026

To be honest, I'm mainly running this one because of the cartoon

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Via @newyorker.com $META [image or embed] — Carl Quintanilla ( @carlquintanilla.bsky.social ) October 19, 2026 at 2:57 PM What could pos...

XKCD's Randall Munroe on Data Quality

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Supreme Court Expansion

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This is Joseph Steve Vladeck has thrown down the gauntlet against Supreme court expansion with his four hard questions. They are good quest...

Remember what we were saying about a "flying car-shaped object"?

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In case you missed it : Let's get the obvious out of the way. To the extent that a car is defined as a vehicle for personal transportati...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

I think it's fair to say that concern over the AI bubble is no longer a fringe position

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Heather Stewart, and Kalyeena Makortoff writing for the Guardian . In its twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF highlighte...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Being able to run for at most fifteen seconds at a time may limit the range a bit.

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Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt as it tries to Roadster again arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10... [image or embed] — Lora Kolodny ( @lorak.bsky...
Friday, October 16, 2026

I read the Financial Times because of its insightful commentary, in-depth reporting, and because their writers have names like Robin Wigglesworth

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 Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of FT Alphaville (one of the rare bullshit-free zones in the financial press) and his posts are always wor...
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Thursday, October 15, 2026

Canaries

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A couple of recent stories for those following the AI boom.   Frank Landymore writing for Futurism . On Tuesday, Character.AI filed for chap...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Tom Scott invents the anti-clickbait title

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 When you watch this video about a fascinating but somehow almost forgotten bit of post-war era scientific history featuring perhaps the las...