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Wall Street traders were lining up to tell Christian Bale how much they (unironically) loved Patrick Bateman.

There's an average of six government-monitored cameras per 1,000 U.S. residents. The number is higher for the top 10 most surveilled cities.

Many of us grew up hearing, “You need to go to college to get a good job.” So how important is education to employers? In other words, does education

Someone* recently said a thing that stuck with me. Paraphrasing: If you're saying "I'm not comfortable dining indoors right now", you should accept that you're saying, "I'm never dining indoors again." Because there is basically no chance that things are going to materially improve any time in the next 2, 3 years, or maybe ever. There comes a time when "I'm just waiting for things to get ...

Plus! Smartphones and Distributed Law Enforcement; Actors as IP; Microtransactions; Partnerships; Streaming; Diff Jobs

I wrote this more than a quarter century ago when Linux Journal was the only publication that would have me, and I posted unsold essays and wannabe columns at searls.com. These postings accumulated…

Here we are Unf*ckers. It’s our great hope that we contextualize the Chicago School of Economics and its high priest Milton Friedman by alternately expanding our view of the world and narrowing in on crucial moments that changed the course of history. #FMF

It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are rising alternatives that don’t yet have a common name. Some are called “national conservatism,” and some (by no means all) strands […]

The universe doesn’t care about you.

Even more info on Amazon’s attrition problem.

Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark. Their head honcho, Leader Lars, is an AI chatbot, and all policies are AI-derived.

In an era of unprecedented military strength, leaders of the United States, the global hyperpower, have increasingly embraced imperial ambitions. How did th

How a best-selling series gave young readers a new sense of agency.

Leslie Jamison writes about the enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books. The books, Jamison writes, gave young readers a “sense of agency” in limited and rule-bound lives&#82…

Source: Visual Capitalist     I am out of pocket most of today, but I wanted to share a quick note on the long-term history of Interest rates, as seen in the above history. Three things stand out : 1) From 1790 to 1950, the overall trend was towards lower rates. 2) The 1970s-80s inflation/yield…Read More