Your mileage may vary Yglesias is not someone I pay much attention to, but this Monday tweet caught my attention. So you don’t have to click over: “Interesting comparing to the DJI,” one respondent tweeted with the chart at top.
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The problems that economists encounter when trying to predict the future really underline how important it is for social sciences to incorporate Keynes’s far-reaching and incisive analysis of induction and evidential weight in his seminal A Treatise on Probability (1921)....Lars P. Syll’s Blog
Economic forecasting — why it matters and why it is so often wrong
Lars P. Syll | Professor, Malmo University
As Oskar Morgenstern noted in his 1928 classic Wirtschaftsprognose: Eine Untersuchung ihrer Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten, economic predictions and forecasts amount to little more than intelligent guessing. Making forecasts and predictions obviously isn’t a trivial or costless activity, so why then go on with it? The problems that economists encounter when trying to predict the future really […]
A report from a Russian working abroad about the effect of the war on his industry.
Sâmia Bomfim enviou pedido à ministra Rosa Weber após reportagem do Intercept e do Portal Catarinas sobre criança de 12 anos grávida pela segunda vez por sofrer violência sexual.
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My name is Bill Astore and I’m a card-carrying member of the military-industrial complex (MIC). Sure, I hung up my military uniform for the last time in 2005. Since 2007, I’ve been writing articles for TomDispatch focused largely on critiquing that same MIC and America’s permanent war economy. I’ve written against this country’s wasteful and unwise wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its costly and disastrous weapons systems, and its undemocratic embrace of warriors and militarism. Nevertheless, I remain a lieutenant colonel, if a retired one. I still have my military ID card, if only to get on bases, and I still tend to say “we” when I talk about my fellow soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen (and our “guardians,” too, now that... Read more
Next Florida will mandate yellow WOKE badges Woke is a four-letter word, a conservative all-purpose epithet as meaningless as the f-word. “You woking wokers get that woking thing out of my woking sight!” Meaningless or not, it serves Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s purposes: to divide and inflame. Republican politicians, conservative pundits, and Fox News anchors attach their slur to anyone to the left of submitting to them on their knees. Writing in Roll Call, Mary C. Curtis believes the term’s vagueness in Florida’s “Stop Woke Act” is deliberate. DeSantis means to erase Black history without expressly erasing Black history. A federal judge ruling on the act in November stated that Florida’s actions strike “at the heart of ‘open-mindedness and critical inquiry.’” By so doing, “the State of Florida has taken over the ‘marketplace of ideas’ to suppress disfavored viewpoints.” If you have to ask, “disfavored by whom?” you might be part of the problem.
Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy has announced the winners of its 2022 Book Award. The award aims to recognize books in Continental philosophy, taking into account originality and importance to its subfield. Typically only one book wins the award, but this year, three have. They are: Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World (Rowman & Littlefield) by Ian Angus (Simon Fraser University) Anxiety: A Philosophical History (Oxford University Press) by Bettina Bergo (University of Montreal) Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (Columbia University Press) by Lorenzo C. Simpson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Symposium is the journal of the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (CSCP). You can see a list of previous winners of its Book Award here.
. Un viaggio in fondo ai tuoi occhi “dai d’illusi smammai” / Un viaggio in fondo ai tuoi occhi solcherò / Dune Mosse … Dentro una lacrima / E verso il sole / Voglio gridare amore / Uuh, non ne posso più / Vieni t’imploderò / A rallentatore, e … / E nell’immenso morirò! … […]
Hello, Birth 101 class staff —
My wife and I attended your screening of Birthing Video last night, and I have some notes.
Protagonist
I hate to say it, but your female lead just isn’t likable. For the film to work, we have to want to root for the main character, but I couldn’t empathize with her at all. Does she really have to be shouting obscenities the whole time?
I know she’s in pain from the contractions and the vaginal tearing, but you should consider giving her an underlying core wound that the audience can find more relatable. Maybe she’s so hot that other women instinctively hate her, like Erin Brokovich. Or she could be super worried about how fat she’s gotten, like Bridget Jones. Or maybe her boobs are too big for regular bras, and she’s forced to shop at a special store? You could add a flashback scene of her trying to find the right bra while a store manager yells, “Don’t stretch out my merchandise with those bowling balls!” That sounds devastating.
The stark drop in Britain's score is driven by an increased perception of corruption in public office from business executives and experts
Three years on from Britain's exit from the EU, the deep impact on our economy and national standing is now undeniable, writes Adam Bienkov
Last week, the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) announced further strike days, set to be their ‘biggest to date’. Nurses will be joined by ambulance drivers and paramedics, while junior doctors are currently balloting; in education, teachers and support staff in England and Wales are set to be the next group of workers to walk […]
Washington, Kiev and the EU have been furiously lobbying Latin American governments to provide weaponry to Ukraine, but they still want no part of this war.
At a gathering of the National Restaurant Association’s legal arm, lawyers and executives grappled with a worker uprising.
With intense scrutiny on the sending of transgender offenders to women's prisons, Sian Norris reports on the much-ignored safety issue impacting incarcerated women – self harm
At a gathering of the National Restaurant Association’s legal arm, lawyers and executives grappled with a worker uprising.
Sam Bright reports on the scale of pollution being pumped into the North Sea
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Attorneys and journalists, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuador embassy, amended their lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for allegedly spying on them. The complaint [PDF] filed in the Southern District of New York now even more explicitly […]
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"What is the common vision to guide the Global South out of this crisis?" asked the Progressive International. "What is the plan to win it?"
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Biden said "No" when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine, but the US previously ruled out providing other arms it eventually sent.
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By Ralph Nader It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. The self-described “democratic socialist” from a safe seat in Vermont has long been a Big Pharma nemesis. He has issued detailed critiques of what others have called a “Pay or Die” […]
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France’s eight major trade unions united for the first time in 12 years to combat government proposals to raise the retirement age to 64.
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