Wednesday, June 5, 2024

When it comes to converging on a narrative, Politico can still give the NYT a run for its money

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Within minutes of the verdict being announced, jokes started to circulate on twitter from people like James Fallows and NYT pitchbot, specul...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Ten years ago at the blog -- a rare Richard Feynman/Tom Lehrer post

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  Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Adding in base 8, counting by ten, and other reform fixations With all of the usua...
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Monday, June 3, 2024

Do Frank Bruni and Politico prove that we are living in a simulation?

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[We dive a bit deeper into "what is intuitive? in the comments.] A few years ago, a Doctor Who episode had the doctor (or more accurate...
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Friday, May 31, 2024

In the aftermath of the verdict, things are going to get ugly. You'll see things you can't unsee (and that's just in the data journalism section)

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Even under the best of circumstances, reading the polls at this point hoping to see who will win the election is a bit like weighing yoursel...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Thursday Tweets -- If your verdict isn't delivered in thirty minutes or less...

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Love that CNN has adopted the Dominos pizza tracker format for trial updates pic.twitter.com/eiiFlmJNo2 — Tyler (@BalloonFlavour) May 29, 2...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

"she, like so many Americans before her, could imagine no greater spiritual fulfillment for herself or the nation than an extinction event."

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I grew up in the Bible Belt and was still living there in the late 90s when things started to change. We were never evangelical, instead opt...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Three quick observations on Donald Trump's not so good Saturday night

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🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS During a speech tonight Donald Trump is met with an angry crowd chanting "Hypocrite" and booing constantly the ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Memorial Day Repost

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A good day for a recommendation There is, of course, no such thing as the military perspective -- no single person can speak for all th...
Friday, May 24, 2024

We can no longer say "the most disastrous vehicle launch since the DeLorean." We might not be able to say "since the Edsel."

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You can make the case that no auto has ever achieved punchline status faster than the Cybertruck. Certainly none have ever achieved it more ...
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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Deferred Tuesday Tweets -- “Would it be too much to pray for a day when the Bible gets a ‘Book of Trump,’ much like it has a ‘Book of Esther’"

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Some stories are just made for Pitchbot... NEW YORK (AP) — A video posted to Donald Trump’s account on his social media network Monday in...

Ten years ago at the blog -- when ed reform met Peanuts

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Friday, May 23, 2014 Good grief! -- Sal...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The cost of being wrong – – political polling edition

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Note: in this context, when I talk about the accuracy of the polls, I mean the correlation between the election results and where the pollin...