Point/Counterpoint This War Will Shut Off 20% of the Global Petroleum Supply for A Month and Send the Economy into a Stagflationary Tailspin vs. No It Won’t Published: March 26, 2003
“Now son, you need to study a language in depth for years to understand all its subtleties. And then you can label that language idiotic.”
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Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
Very inclusive!
Wait til we get to the stage: how do we know anything really?
This remake of Death of Stalin in the US is something.
Half of finance Bluesky is “how is the market so calm in this energy crisis?!” The other half is the above.
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
Hadn’t noticed he does the GW Bush thing of leaning his head in as he says long words.
Maybe these are people for whom “plan ahead” isn’t redundant.
Plenty to comment and critique but I tend to avoid “he fell asleep at a boring meeting” and “sounds like this” given what i fear I sounded like in hour 3 of a lecture class, but…
Chotiner: How long did you stay with Calypso?
Odysseus: Seven years
Chotiner: As her prisoner?
Odysseus: Yes. I was bewitched.
Chotiner: And another year with Circe?
Odysseus: It's complicated.
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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
At certain times of the day, my feed is very UK-heavy and a reminder of what it would be like to live in a country where every major news outlet was like the NY Post.
It is amazing when I was younger how much I thought I needed to know about a topic before I’d get up and give a talk about it.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Up a bit from “just a smidge”…
Baudrillard can't keep getting away with it
Beige book with some red alarms.
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Would have just watched the “genius” trying to peel the banana.
I came upon a rally for him in Bordeaux, of all places, last weekend. Wasn't very large but the paraphernalia looked well-funded.
The necropolitical futures market is barely getting started.
OTOH, since it's not my area, the review did point me to better reads on this. (I only got through the hyperboles of the first chapter or two before stopping this book.)
RIP William Connolly
Not an era for subtlety.
