The ever-excellent Matt Levine points us to the amusing economic policies that connect the international jet-set to Malaysian street hawkers…
The Federal government controls a ridiculous amount of land in the West including more than half of Oregon, Utah, Nevada,…
Salamanca still feels part of the orbit of Madrid, but León does not. Many of the faces are more Celtic,…
I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t…
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Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet. The post Why LLMs make certain mistakes appeared first on…
Eli Dourado continues to keep his eye on the most important number in the world, total factor productivity. It continues…
I love these glow-in-the-dark petunias. Aside from the novelty, they speak to science and progress! The petunias were genetically modified…
Joe Nocera has a strange piece in the Free Press arguing that the “godfathers of protectionism” have been vindicated. It…
Instead of re-opening Alcatraz as super-max prison we should build a statue to America. I suggest “Lady Liberty of the…