Tuesday, June 18, 2024

538 + 1968 does not add up to meta-panic

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 From Andrew Gelman: " How would the election turn out if Biden or Trump were replaced by a different candidate? " The piece is de...
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Monday, June 17, 2024

Summer in Texas means it's time for a ground source heat pump repost

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Happily, both of the nuclear units that were out of commission are back online producing 5,000 megawatts. Unhappily, there are still nearly...
Friday, June 14, 2024

Two pieces of satirical press criticism from Mitchell and Webb.

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The Alien Invasion sketch is very good and sharply observed, but Train Safety (from the team's wonderful radio series, That Mitchell and...

"Not Your Father's Apple Fail" (another video you didn't know you needed)

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Bob Chipman takes a deep dive into Apple's disastrous and quickly aborted ad introducing the new iPad, approached in terms of marketing,...
Thursday, June 13, 2024

Has anything nonviable, stupid and/or evil come out of Silicon Valley without funding from Andreessen Horowitz?

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Example 14,305: From the indispensable Stephen Findeisen, a.k.a. Coffeezilla.
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Eating Eric Roberts – – rational versus irrational desperation

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Think about these two scenarios. One. After a particularly fuzzy night you realize that you have spent most of this month's mortgage pay...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Twelve years ago at the blog – – in 2024 the concept of persuadables is more relevant than ever, Red Lobster... not so much

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This 2012 post its on one of the topics I've been meaning to bring into our election-year blogging. Persuasibility is one of if not the ...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Ethno-states and Ethnic Nationalism

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This is Joseph. I had a conversation with Mark about why I was not a big fan of ethnic nationalism and ethno-states. I thought it might be ...
Friday, June 7, 2024

The latest YouGov survey is useful and even important, but it doesn't support the conclusions people are drawing from it.

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 [I'm trying to get this one out the door quickly so I'll be using an outline format because it's faster.] 1. Unlike most of the...
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Thursday, June 6, 2024

Trump's verdict – – always remember the secondary and tertiary effects

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Given the situation and what we know about Trump, it has been obvious since the first investigation started gathering steam that the more in...