Friday, July 19, 2024

XKCD needs to update this one

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Don't get me wrong. This is a great strip. But Oumuamua 's old news. These days everyone's overreacting to Dyson swarms. (You ha...
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Thursday, July 18, 2024

Twelve years ago -- we told you to keep an eye on these guys

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  Weigel Broadcasting is getting a lot of getting a lot deservedly positive press for its launch of MeTV Toons , the company's latest ty...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Another newly relevant repost -- Hipster Eugenics

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[Apologies for going into reruns so heavy this week, but it's another topic people need to be paying attention to this week.] Concern ov...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Two years ago at the blog -- didn't expect to be reposting this one quite so soon

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Back in 2021, the national press was desperately trying to convince itself that Trump was losing his hold on the Republican Party. This was ...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Predictive Models and Black Swans

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 Every predictive model relies on at least one of two things. The first is the assumption that patterns and relationships will in the future...
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Friday, July 12, 2024

This isn't the video where she calls Steven Pinker a dick, but you can't have everything

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Finally got around to watching this video by physics post-doc Angela Collier, recommended by frequent commenter David, and I'm giving ...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024

YIMBY and the education reform movement -- part one: questions of class and technocracy

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I've been thinking about the similarities between the education reform movement we spent so much time discussing a dozen years ago and t...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

This isn't a post about politics; it's a post about the poitical press.

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Even more than usual, the best political commentary over the past few days has been coming from Josh Marshall. Though I want to wait until t...
Tuesday, July 9, 2024

'This is the year 1980, by now half the population of the United States is living in cities and towns that didn't even exist 20 years ago.'

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Lots of threads colliding on this one. First off, it's a 1961 documentary about what researchers and technocrats thought the future woul...
Monday, July 8, 2024

What do you call a dense, well-planned, innovative exurb? ... An exurb.

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However, the East Solano Plan, as proposed, can offer a model for how to build new cities with the whole ecosystem in mind, intentionally:...
Friday, July 5, 2024

Coffeezilla vs Rabbit

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Coffeezilla first got on my radar when the Financial Times quoted his investigation of a shady crypto deal. I've been watching his chann...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

Music for the 4h

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  Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to war in Europe was. And finally,...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Come for the Brian Eno quote, stay for the cultural insights

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In addition to the great quote, I'd say this was exceptional work from Bob Chipman but I don't think you can be characteristically e...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

It's almost like reducing sprawl wasn't really the goal

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A rational land-use policy in a state like California needs to balance the agricultural productivity against the proximity to housing demand...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Twelve years ago -- Time to revisit the locavore non-debate

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 The mystery of why this attack on the locavore movement was so bad when legitimate criticisms were so easy to come by would have first gott...
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