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Mon, 20/10/2025 - 00:10

Fam and I are visiting my 96-year-old Uncle George tonight. We love him. His complicated and somewhat meandering stories have been music to my daughter’s ears since she fell asleep in a cab at age six listening to him lament his wife’s death. George is my late mother’s only sibling, and the only survivor of […]

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Sat, 18/10/2025 - 23:10

My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he, who’d been a socialist in his impoverished […]

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Sat, 18/10/2025 - 04:10

“The U.S. Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit the use of the landmark law to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.” — AP News

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The Supreme Court appears poised to deliver yet another win for the US Constitution by striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that prohibits race-based discrimination when drawing legislative district maps. America no longer has a problem when it comes to voters of certain races being disenfranchised, and you can tell it’s not an issue by how great race relations are in America right now.

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Sat, 18/10/2025 - 03:51
What strikes me repeatedly when examining the results of randomised experiments is how closely they resemble theoretical models. Both share a fundamental limitation: they are constructed under artificial conditions and struggle with the trade-off between internal and external validity. The greater the control and artificiality, the higher the internal validity — but the lower the […]
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Sat, 18/10/2025 - 00:07
John Maynard Keynes believed that ideas, hospitality, travel, knowledge and science should move freely between nations.  if a country could reasonably produce something physical it needed, it should. Trade should exist, but be kept to a minimum. I’d like to highlight something Matt Stoller (the anti-trust guy) recently wrote: In May of 2020, the Chinese […]