February 20, 2017
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto: Great for Facebook, Bad for Journalism. Deeper issue to be examined is private profit on the backs of what should be a public good: the internet, info tech in general.
February 19, 2017
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump. 4chan unlike this article claims not really a right-wing site: more anarcho-libertarian and something completely new. That said, great article.
Trump Hates the Press? Take a Number. Trump nothing new under the sun. Problem is 26-year-old journalists who have never picked up a history book.
Why Do Americans Refrigerate Their Eggs? Because we have the coolest chickens.
February 18, 2017
US Household Debt Rose To $12.6 Trillion In 2016: Biggest Jump In A Decade. Note this is the one that matters: household debt, not national debt.
February 17, 2017
Countries bombed by the USA since the end of the end of WWII. Woo! Look at all that freedom raining down.
How America Lost Faith in Expertise. Problem with expertise is how very, very often it is used to make deleterious, stupid decisions more confidently. “Trust us, we’re the experts:” Iraq, health care, crash of 2008, NAFTA, Brexit, college, etc.
The Deep State vs. Trump. Most people are utterly clueless as to what’s really going on now.
Historians can often detect social trends much earlier and better than more empirically-minded economists, among whom only a tiny minority sensed the forthcoming dangers. Most accurate sentence I’ve read so far this year.
February 16, 2017
Womanhood Redefined. Much wrong with this piece, but also much right. Worth thinking about.
February 15, 2017
February 14, 2017
Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Protesters. Propaganda works.
Eroding exceptionalism: Internet firms’ legal immunity is under threat. If it kills Facebook, I am for it. (Said only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)
February 13, 2017
Bumblebees Are Dying Out Because They’re Too Fat to Mate. The American future?
How to Close a Gender Gap: Let Employees Control Their Schedules. Makes employees more productive, but reduces exec power, so will not be widely adopted.
Illegal numbers. Back in the early 2000s, I got banned from a dozen+ forums b/c my signature had an illegal prime in it (DeCSS). Regrets: none.
February 12, 2017
February 11, 2017