Monday, May 13, 2024

Would manipulating stocks by spreading conspiracy theories about stock manipulation be considered meta-fraud?

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Even by meme stock standards, Trump Media is an insane story. For starters, as James Surowiecki points out "His company has $4 million...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Deferred Thursday Tweets -- Not sure if presidential brain worms are the weirdest news of the week. Welcome to 2024.

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The interesting part of the RFK brainworm story is that literally no one who read it said, “No way.” — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) May 8, ...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

And while we're on the subject of tech revisionism...

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Here's another repost about 21st century journalists retconning the late 19th century narrative. Based on feed back to the original, I...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Dispatches from Georgia

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I was having a long distance conversation with a friend from Atlanta recently. Like me, he spins way too much time watching television an...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Six years ago in the blog, but probably more relevant with the rise of the techno-optimists

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This is the one thing you always need to remember about tech visionaries: if you go back far enough, you can find some actual geniuses, but ...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Waze Hallucinations

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]Kaiser Fung WAZE weighs in here .]   I suspect everyone reading this has had moments while driving where their phone has taken them off wh...
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Friday, May 3, 2024

Should we take Goldwater seriously but not literally?

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As I said before, I don't want to make too much of this analogy, but you could do multiple of these ads just on Trump's abortion q...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Thursday Tweets -- "Where's Cricket?"

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Kristi Noem: The politician who has the guts to tell you to kill your dog. https://t.co/u68uxR3b4o — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 27, 202...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Anti-tax mania

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This is Joseph. Canada recently proposed an increased capital gains tax : Under the proposal, the inclusion rate for annual capital gains re...