This is one of the most shocking graphs I've ever seen in regard to the long term social effects of the New Gilded Age. It comes from a big National Academy of Sciences study of the changing relationship between income and life expectancy across different generations...
Biden has taken important steps toward fighting climate change, absolutely. It is great that there is so much emphasis on opening big solar plants in the United States. And if.
This is the grave of George Cortelyou. Born in New York in 1862, Cortelyou was old money. So old that it should have been spelled "olde." His family came to.
Paul recently observed that "one of the most fascinating pieces of psychological denial I've ever seen is the belief among so many deep pocketed Republicans that Donald Trump can somehow be stopped from getting the GOP nomination." With DeSantis's poll numbers seemingly permanently buried in a...
There's lots of money in universities. So when you don't believe in educating students, that money seems like a good thing to steal, at least if you are Ron DeSantis..
Of course: The United Arab Emirates planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to strike oil and gas deals, the BBC has.
In addition to my radical view that one-issue anti-nepotism voters should prefer Joe Biden to Donald Trump. I also have the radical view that one-issue anti-inflation voters should strongly prefer Joe Biden to Donald Trump: But the primary driver of Trump’s support — especially among swing...
These are not very bright guys: Bakersfield, CA has always been a part of the United States of America! No military consequent of any kind! Never were there any controversies.
In a conversation on Bluesky, I commented that I have never found an explanation of the neural net part of the LLMs like ChatGPT that makes sense. “It works like.
Some reading for your Monday... Regime type and nuclear war, from Van Jackson. Opportunities and vulnerabilities of the transatlantic defense industrial base. In October we lost Richard Bitzinger, a remarkable scholar of the global defense industry. It's a bit dated now but The Modern Defense Industry...
This is the grave of Frederick Billings. Born in Royalton, Vermont in 1823, Billings grew up in Woodstock. He went to local schools and then to the University of Vermont,.
Amazing what you can find on that thing! Even amid the uproar over President Donald J. Trump’s freewheeling use of his pardon powers at the end of his term, one commutation stood.