I looked at the LGM archives for the first week of 2021, and it's remarkable the extent to which the attempted coup on the 6th was something that should have been totally unsurprising. We had numerous posts here in the days leading up to that...
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The NYT has a forum on the Big Questions surrounding the current and future AI revolution/explosion/hype/whatever. Some thoughts as a starting point for an LGM discussion of this whole topic:.
Stephen Miller is often compared with considerable reason to Joseph Paul Goebbels, but he actually reminds me even more of Stalin's most craven lickspittles (Most of these men were eventually.
Andrew Gelman returns to a theme we've been kicking around for awhile, which is how in the New Gilded Age people of immense wealth create and nurture celebrity status, verging in some cases on actual cults of personality, on the basis of the fact that...
Well here's a real pick me up: You know what Kids Today have trouble sitting through, in a college class on films? Akira Mizuta Lippit, a cinema and media-studies professor.
Neil Peart, of Rush, photographed in Cleveland on Dec. 17, 1977. The Rock You know how he gets after a couple of Fox "news" segments: I'm sure we can count.
It's overwhelmingly the position among Democrats, but it also has strong support among independents, and even one out of every five Republicans: This is a situation where what is unquestionably the right thing to do is also popular. The Democratic leadership is full of people...
Things are feeling very dark this morning in vibeland, so you're going to join me here. (1) The FBI seizing voting machines from 2020 in Fulton County, Georgia, is a.
The really pathetic thing -- OK one really pathetic thing -- is that this pitiful act of attempted appeasement has zero chance of being accepted by either the Trump administration.
40 years ago this morning, the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated a little more than a minute into its flight.. Old man thought: The time that has passed since then is almost exactly the same as the time between that morning and the end of World...
Looks like it may well have been: Federal immigration officers have been collecting personal information about protesters and agitators in Minneapolis, sources told CNN – and had documented details about.
Andrew Gelman has read Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which sounds like a very interesting book by a New Zealand lawyer who climbed high in the ranks at Facebook, before.