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“If we should encounter someone who believes — honestly and adamantly believes — in both the existence of the Easter Bunny and in the resurrection of Christ, it would naturally raise questions about the quality of his or her believing faculties.”

Posted on December 8, 2020 by jgordon

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Against Tufekci: it’s not a coup.

Posted on December 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good point that, so far, GOP officials with responsibikity have not cooperated. On balance I favor Tufekci though. This is an attempted coup that is not yet effective.

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Authoritarian control the next stage in economic growth.

Posted on December 8, 2020 by jgordon

Link. 9/11 was a turning point. It accelerated the development of control systems by decades.

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Scientists Slam Microwave Theory For “Havana Syndrome”

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A mixture of psychological, infectious, toxin seems more plausible.

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Trump is Thanos.

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The comic book version, not the TV guy. A legit spin with new to me quotes.

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Media intrigue at the end of cable.

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fun for the chiefs but a hard world for the minions.

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Newt Gingrich Slams ‘New York Times’ 1619 Project As Shameless Abolitionist Propaganda

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “What happened to giving the public all the information about slavery’s benefits and drawbacks and trusting them to decide?”

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“Trump’s ability to scrape the bottom and then go lower still is simply impossible to overestimate.”

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s a genius at exploiting weakness. We can’t match him.

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“In Turkish, we do have many different words for different types of coups, because our experience similarly demands it”

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trump, with significant GOP support, is attempting illegal control of the US government. Coup is the right word. Don’t underestimate him and don’t overestimate the health of US democracy.

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A Dem on the future of the Never-Trump conservative.

Posted on December 7, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I also applaud. Their best hope is conservative immigrants and Latino.

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[toread] “… his North Star, his organizing principle, should be doing as much good on as many fronts as fast as possible. Blitz.”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Ignore the GOP.

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“any downfall of 21st-century liberal democracy is unlikely to follow a 90-year-old template.”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Lessons from the past may mislead.

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“The deputy was thrown onto the hood of the car, the office said. Mr. Presti was not injured.”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Deputy had bilateral tibial fractures. Some serious white privilege in play, but hard to believe Presti won’t spend some time in the big house.

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Why Trump’s coup is working on GOP.

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good analysis – the coup has not failed yet. Of course if we really had hacked the election we’d have taken the damned Senate.

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“Google’s cross-platform web browser utilizes a hidden auto-update daemon and agent that wrecked Mac systems and wreaked other havoc”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Google needs a rethink.

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Murder and violent corruption in Mexico: Fidel Herrera and Javier Duarte

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Trumpism is a milder (so far) version of the same disease.

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Ed Yong: Pandemic told via LOTR

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Love the beacon watchers

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Keynes resurgent: “for now, macro in the real world is “GIVE PEOPLE MONEY.”

Posted on December 6, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Actually it’s well beyond Keynes. The money flow is broken, it goes only to the 10% and especially the 0.1%. Governments are installing energency bypass shunts.

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McCarthy to Trump: the continuity.

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The GOP went bad long ago.

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iPhone 11 screen defect repair program

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. defect affecting some iPhone 11 screens,

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“Kia and Hyundai must pay $137 million in fines and for safety improvements because they moved too slowly to recall more than 1 million vehicles with engines that can fail”

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fines are far too small.

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“Just eight Republicans, 3 percent of all GOP lawmakers, voiced support for Trump’s current strategy of claiming victory and asking state legislatures to declare him the victor in states that he lost.”

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Of the 8 I’d guess 1-2 are idiots and the rest don’t give a sh*t.

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“metrics in the HHS dataset that we are able to evaluate appear to be at least as accurate and reliable as the state data”

Posted on December 5, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Good news.

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“30% of the PA Assembly seeking to overturn the results of an election that Biden won by 82K votes. Signers include the House Speaker & Majority Leader.”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Had the election been closer the coup would have led to mass strife.

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Tony Hsieh’s self-destruction.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Imagine the grief of his parents.

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“Biden’s popular vote margin by percentage (4.4 percent) far surpasses Obama’s 2012 victory over Mitt Romney.”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. America, in the end, rejected Trump by as much as is probably possible for America.

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Newsmax viewed. Beyond Fox.

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If Fox is heroin, Newsmax is meth.

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“substantial proportion of the 50 billion pounds has been siphoned off and is being used for illegal activity such as money laundering”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Illegal enterprises growing with COVID.

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Long haul COVID group: “85 percent report cognitive dysfunction, 81 percent had numbness and other neurological sensations”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Brain injury. We don’t know prevalence or age distribution.

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“they were less worried than last spring about socializing outdoors, touching surfaces or sending young children to school. They were more worried about indoor air transmission and the dangers of not wearing masks”

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This has not been communicated well.

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The Puzzle of Low Interest Rates – Mankiw

Posted on December 4, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Money/opportunity ratio high. Wealth concentration. Redistribution by government is most economically productive use now.

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Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Obviously I don’t understand but it soumds important.

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Fauci day: “11:50 a.m. to 12 p.m. A bathroom break and more email”

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Insane energy and discipline.

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6PPD-quinone, produced from car tire preservative, kills coho salmon.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Doubt only them.

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“we are well into stage three of GOP gutlessness.”

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The Benedict Arnold Party.

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Where are you in vaccine queue?

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I’m near front.

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Bezos: reversible and irreversible decisions.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by jgordon

Link. So much better than the usual CEO advice.

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“46-minute videotaped speech that denounced a “rigged” election and was filled with lies”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Quality journalists know how to cover Trump.

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“Trump tried to leverage the power of the presidency to subvert the vote and overturn the election results.”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. If he had won we’d be done.

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“McInerney, who served as the Air Force’s assistant vice chief of staff in the 1990s, told Howse he’d heard reports that U.S. soldiers were killed in a CIA-led operation to retrieve ballot servers in Frankfurt, Germany”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This year we have had lots of proof that very stupid people can be quite successful.

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Elastomeric masks: when you really don’t want COVID.

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need more like ths.

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“What about the Black Africans?’ Well, you can see something, the vitality, there. I mean, they have a little animallike charm. But God, those Indians, ack, pathetic.”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Nixon.

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“Holm 15A, formed from yet another merger of two already-huge cored elliptical galaxies that wprobably formed from the combination of eight smaller spiral galaxies over billions of years”

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sounds like a rough neighborhood.

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Trump despicable again: claims COVID carr facility is fake

Posted on December 2, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He is a horrible person.

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“it can be done by policy, by making life more secure for those without a college degree.”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. When David Brooks and I agree the apocalypse is nigh. But what policy?!

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“Collectively, as a society, we wrung our hands and ran in circles and screeched and died and screeched and died and screeched and died until scientists made vaccines against the virus.”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Science is the miracle.

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“The FEC should be reshaped to emulate Australia’s independent election commission”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Essential reforms. Stop Trump II takeover.

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Predict Hospitalization Risk for COVID-19 Positive

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Age, gender, BMI

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“Atlas said what Trump wanted to hear so Trump elevated him to say the same things to the American public”

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. A fair appraisal of Atlas. A useful minion.

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‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’

Posted on December 1, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We have always been like this.

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