Monthly Archives: May 2025

‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot’

Nathan Cofnas writes: On April 17, researchers led by Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge announced that they had detected dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere of K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years from Earth. On our planet, dimethyl sulfide is … Continue reading

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NYT: In Multilevel Marketing, Sleight of Hand Is Simply the Rule of Doing Business

The New York Times reports on this new book, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America: Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own … Continue reading

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Tom Wolfe’s Favorite Russian Writers

Gemini says: Tom Wolfe cited several Russian writers as influences and inspirations, particularly those associated with the Brothers Serapion group, including Boris Pilnyak, and especially Eugene Zamiatin. He also expressed admiration for other Russian authors like Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, … Continue reading

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‘The Rule of Law, The Rule of Courts, and the Rule of the State’ (5-4-25)

02:00 WSJ: Trump’s Tariffs Are Lifting Some U.S. Manufacturers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI 07:00 Trump’s First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W960TW79QCI 24:00 Michael Huemer: Trade, Tariffs, & Make-Work Bias, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16094240:00 Democrats Think They Have A Branding Problem, … Continue reading

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The Democrats believe they have a branding crisis.

This reminds of the optics crisis experienced by the Alt Right post Charlottesville, and Biden’s communications crisis that Americans think the economy sucks and he’s too old to govern. These are all attempts to deny reality. The problems are deeper … Continue reading

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