Month: June 2023

by liberal japonicus Open thread-y post. Been reading a lot about the revolt in Russia and a common hook is to plug it into some historical event. The obvious one is 1991 KGB takeover and Yeltsin and Czar Nicolas II is another fave. But there is also Yemelyan Pugachev (Catherine the Great), one of the … Read more

by liberal japonicus Fodder for discussion with a rather ironic title.https://www.fastcompany.com/40406673/the-man-who-wants-to-send-us-to-the-bottom-of-the-ocean discuss  

by liberal japonicus Via this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, I was steered to this blog post on a fascinating site, Data Colada I'll let you click on the links, but here's a taste Two summers ago, we published a post (Colada 98: .htm) about a study reported within a famous article on … Read more

by liberal japonicus Rich people don’t wear coats, we were told. Their shoes only ever touch carpet, as they move seamlessly from their cars to their jets to their buildings. Also, crucially, they don’t duck (when getting out of helicopters). In the first season, I wrote an episode set around Thanksgiving. The rich consultant really … Read more

Pictures of the Philly skyline from hairshirthedonist, who writes, the smoky photo was taken in the early afternoon and the clear one mid morning, so the sun at different angles. Thanks, hairshirt. I drove east today and smelled smoke faintly when I got within 10-15 miles of the coast. Then I smelled it again when … Read more

by liberal japonicus In the enshitification thread, the notion popped up (and it's popped up several times at the blog) about the idea of moving to some red state en masse to change the politics. I've kind of lost track of who said what, but this guardian article points to the issues with that. Under … Read more