someone made some $$ from this.
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someone made some $$ from this.
Market manipulation...
"has remorse [that she was convicted]..."
Printing press...radio...film strips...calculators...cable television...computers...1LPC...Wikipedia...MOOCs...LLMs...
If Capra made this now...
"We Fight Why???"
Of course they have. I am interested to see how the corporations making these unhealthy and unsafe products uss strategies developed by Big Oil and Big Tobacco to avoid and blunt regulation. I suspect this is already happening.
Curious to whether and how corporate strategies described in *Merchants of Doubt* will be used to resist attempts to regulate A.I. and LLM products...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/t...
Dead-fish eyes
Am sharing with my dept colleagues
A tale of two economies...
I was at Ocean HQ a few weeks back and fuel at the local station was $4.20...
Added to the "must read" list
#histsci
NYT writer makes case for self-termination
Gritz's life story reads like a parable for today's paranoid, inept GOP
"In 1998, while the trial was ongoing, Mr. Gritzβs third wife, Claudia, filed for divorce. He attempted to kill himself with a revolver, but missed his heart."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...
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cf. "giss" (birding)
I hear that topic is wide open for historians to examine. Get busy!
US foreign policy, 2026
DJT pardon in 3...2...1...
The BJHS "Themes" volume on manuals and handbooks might have some useful material
This remains one of my all-time favorite podcasts...totally worth the $5/month or whatever you can spare
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this will not improve town-gown relations...
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/e...
The former...
People show more respect at a Little League game when the national anthem is played...
This 'man'...wearing a ball cap as dead service people are presented. #Unfit
I recall corresponding with Hanson some years back when doing research for a previous book. It was hard to take his ideas seriously. FWIW his family seemed to agree
www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/m...
It's 2026 and there's still no Hyperloop
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...