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Briefly Noted for October 7, 2026: Four eras of San Francisco tech culture; One Laptop per Child in retrospect; a future prime minister's American tour, before Tocqueville; and more.
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Dan Cohen’s latest post on the difficulties of preserving AI-assisted scholarship got me thinking about the patchiness of the scholarly record, of what knowledge gets passed on and what gets left behind.
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College football starts today. Bureaucrats and money men will pick the contenders. They should be chosen on the field. Reposting my case for replacing the FBS with English-style promotion and relegation.
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It’s not nowhere. Connecticut is the borderland where both New York and New England negotiate their identities.
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Updating the book manuscript with some recent figures and I came across this chart from the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report. Does anyone know what might have changed between 2024 and 2025 to cause such an enormous spike in crypto crime?
Two time zones too few; Fahrenheit vs. Celsius; AI and scholarship; Writing by hand; Horror and losing yourself ... and bunnies!
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The House just voted to make Daylight Saving permanent. But whichever way you set the clocks, if you want a real fix you need to fix the real problem: the U.S. has too few time zones for a country this wide.
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Latest newsletter! Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. Temperature is natural. Degrees are man made.
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Okay so the Fed is the one special body that's outside of the Unitary Executive theory because Hamilton was pro finance
Big news: The Supreme Court prevents President Trump from firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
This is a win for Fed independence.
The vote was 5 to 4.
"The Founders knew from experience the calamities that could arise from even the 'suspicion' of political manipulation of monetary policy."
Roberts, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh and Jackson voted in favor of Fed independence.
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So I guess we’re writing all our section headings as questions now in this new day of AI-assisted search (via NYT/The Athletic)
Just explained to an incredulous 13-year-old that the LED-incandescent culture war was really a thing.
A reminder that being good at one thing doesn’t make you good at everything. Nobody wants a Ferrari that looks like an iPod.
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Trump has announced “great progress” on reopening the Strait of Hormuz at least six times. Each time oil prices plummeted. Each time the “deal” fell through. Each time oil prices climbed again. And I’m supposed to believe that Wall Street is full of geniuses?
Numerical comparisons are useless. Scientific publishing and humanities publishing have as much in common as cheese and chalk.
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The U.S. hasn’t seen a mining disaster of this scale in more than 75 years. The next time you marvel at China’s ability to build—its “dynamism”—remember that its relative indifference to human suffering is a big part of it.
At least 90 dead in China's worst coal mine disaster in over 16 years reut.rs/4wKHwHt reut.rs/4wKHwHt