Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2022

Today's links

Ryan North's 'How to Take Over the World': Popular science as a series of supervillainous thought-experiments.
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Pluralistic: 28 Oct 2021

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The new DRM-breaking exemptions just dropped: But here's the bad news…
All of science gets a general index: For your text-mining pleasure, courtesy of Carl Malamud and Public Resource.
Europe's trustbusters lose the plot: Filternet, made in Europe.
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Pluralistic: 17 Aug 2021

Today's links

Sandman Slim's final adventure: King Bullet brings in Richard Kadrey's masterpiece for a hell of a landing.
Big Oil caught lying about methane: 84 times worse than CO2.
This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 02 Aug 2021

Today's links

Machine learning sucks at covid: Every "AI" covid tool was useless.
Podcasting "Are We Having Fun Yet?": The first three parts of my ongoing Medium series on queueing, aggregate demand management and theme parks.
This day in history: 2020, 2016, 2011, 2006, 2001
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Pluralistic: 28 Jun 2021

Today's links

Podcasting "Qualia": My column on quant-bias, antitrust, drug policy and epidemiology.
Lazy Congress only schedules 9 days' work this summer: We're not paying you to party on donors' yachts.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
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Pluralistic: 22 Jun 2021

Today's links

Improving the ACCESS Act: Six ways to make the most important tech law of the legislative season even better.
Juul's junk science: Reporting bias makes vaping's safety is a hazy mess.
Peloton bricks its treadmills: Your kids are dead because you didn't buy the subscription.
This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 10 Jun 2021

Today's links

A denialism taxonomy: FLICC (fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking, conspiracy theories).
Urban broadband deserts: Digital redlining is a policy, not an accident.
This day in history: 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 16 May 2021

Today's links

Who owns the covid vaccines: Socializing risk and privatizing gain for fun and profit.
This day in history: 2001, 2011, 2016, 2020
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Pluralistic: 02 May 2021

Today's links

XKCD's scientific microfiction meme: "Types of scientific paper."
Attack Surface is a Locus Awards finalist: And what EXCELLENT company it's in!
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Pluralistic: 26 Mar 2021

Today's links

Dreaming and overfitting: The Overfitted Brain Hypothesis has a lot of explanatory power.
Dirty NYPD cops can't lose: The secret legal defense fund for the indefensible.
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