Interesting perspective (via WSJ) on the “real winners” of the meme stock pump-and-dump…

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Just saw the trailer for Death on the Nile. youtu.be/dZRqB0JLi... Knew who it was when I heard that accent at the end! Very nice to see Poirot is alive and kicking :-)…

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From this old article about Rene Girard: > "We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires," he said during a lecture at Stanford's Old Union i…

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Mostly good, opinionated overview of CL/Scheme (and more)…

Shtetl-Optimized  » Blog Archive   » Why Quantum Mechanics? > Q: Why should the universe have been quantum-mechanical? If you want, you can divide Q into two subquestions: Q1: Why didn’t God jus…

From the City Journal: > The age divide extends to more general questions. When asked, “Thinking about political correctness, are you generally in favor of it (it protects against discrimination),…

A fun anecdote from the New Yorker > Biden has a personal history with Putin, too. During a trip to Moscow, in 2011, Biden, then Vice-President, was blunt. “I’m looking into your eyes,” he told Pu…

From this Marginalia post > It is only now beginning to be borne in on us — very faintly, it must be admitted, very slowly, and very much against our will — that this vision of the world is danger…

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