Graphs going up #2
Higher interest rates have a way of letting you know what your debt is. I hear Argentina has recently shown a compelling alternative.…
Commentary
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On cleaning up after yourself
Grabbing my popcorn and cheering them on…
All wired up
(Originally a draft post for a longer series on “the first day of the 90s”) I found this piece amusing and naive. “The Internet in the 90s” is something that will be revisited later, but for now, her…
Interceptors
Patriot missiles are in the news again I remember the name from the Gulf War (the "first" Iraq war for the younger folks), when the idea of one missile knocking out another one ("Scuds…
All’s fair
Marked out the takeaway from an article about Ukraine (From WSJ, the Jan 5, 2024 issue)…
On well-intended
Saw this in Letters to the Editor, 25 Oct 2023…
Fraying
The UN and associated bodies are nearing an end of an era…
Two interesting takes
(Sharing articles I read this week) Getting a paper newspaper subscription has its benefits! Reading things slowly, or skimming through pages, is it’s own reward.…
"AI crap"
From the post of the same name by Drew DeVault: You will never trust another product review. You will never speak to a human being at your ISP again. Vapid, pithy media will fill the digital world ar…
TikTok brain
Yeah, not good. Not good at all. There should at least be an opt-out for kids!…
Uber-Rationalism
Bruno Maçães talks about a recent convergence of ideologies ... Here some serious pathologies quickly coalesce. First, many of these people only recently developed a taste for politics and political…
Past and Future, interrupted
From this Substack post In Margaret Mead’s understanding of cultural transmission between generations, it appears that we may also be living in a pre-figurative culture, where the past is not the gui…