Relax, UFOs aren’t real
What do I even make of this headline?! This would’ve been an Onion piece a decade ago. Still, good to know ……
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Graphs going up
I still keep my NYT subscription -- one reason is the comments The original article is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/biden-trump-consumer-confidence-economy.html…
Two charts
One from this week’s WSJ, the other from this week’s Economist.…
Posthumous influencers
Add this to the list of things I didn’t see happening:…
On Instagram
Sharing some highlights from this excellent essay. All of these pack a punch, IMO. tl;dr: In a saturated digital arena and offline marketplace, the aim of all content and media is the Pursuit of w…
A comforting headline
(Right …)…
Not-so-uniquely stupid
From Jonathan Haidt's recent article in the Atlantic: The high point of techno-democratic optimism was arguably 2011, a year that began with the Arab Spring and ended with the global Occupy movem…
On form and feeling
Many ages must have elapsed before architecture came to be considered as a fine art. Utility was its original destination, and still continues to be its principal end. Experience, however, has taught…
The humor in Radical Candor
(From a recent issue of the Economist)…
On history and progress
From https://www.city-journal.org/lionel-trillings-warning…
On the space dog
From an article in the New Yorker reminiscing about Laika: But the story of Laika had a dark lie at its core.a space coffin turned shooting star…