- The United States Couldn’t Stop Being Stupid if It Wanted To (Foreign Policy) A nice takedown of the Blob and its interventionism.
- Ukraine and the end of "Europe." - by Aurelien On the incoherence of "Europe" as defined by the EU. Money quote, "We are the enemy, in other words, and “Europe” must be protected against against its citizens."
- Can an AI Chatbot Replace the Washington Blob? (N.S. Lyons) Yes, it can. Not a surprise. The blob is an exercise in stupidity and group think, not intelligence.
- The rise and fall of peer review (Adam Mastroianni) Peer review was introduced after WWII, and has not caught fraud and error, nor has it improved the general quality of science.
- “Metaverse” means “pivot to video” (Cory Doctorow) Facebook's "Pivot to Video" was a scam perpetrated by the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™ on publishers using fraudulent data. Doctorow argues that Metaverse is the same thing.
- No Union? You Still Have a Right to Strike (Labor Notes)
- The ‘Perpetual Broths’ That Simmer For Decades (Gastro Obscura) Yum.
- How to Start a Banned Book Club (ACLU) I think that this is an excellent idea.
- Ban the Phillips Curve (Claudia Sahm) This curve posits a inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment. The real world shows that it rarely works.
- The mud-dwelling clam Meretrix petechialis secretes endogenously synthesized erythromycin (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science) Some clams secrete their own antibiotics, a first for the animal world. Science is amazing.
A Lifesize Verion of the Mousetrap Game: (Too much free time)
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