@deinstein.bsky.social
The report is at ourworldindata.org/does-the-new... .
Does the news reflect what we die from?
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
ourworldindata.org
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The report is at ourworldindata.org/does-the-new... .
I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Chinese Communism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I mean, say what you want about the tenets of Chinese Communism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
Is there any evidence that the supply side is even being affected? Certainly not enough to offset the focus of law enforcement away from drugs and towards making brown people suffer. It seems to be nothing but photogenic cruelty.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Is there any evidence that the supply side is even being affected? Certainly not enough to offset the focus of law enforcement away from drugs and towards making brown people suffer. It seems to be nothing but photogenic cruelty.
Cornwell's Sharpe novels (particularly the early ones) do a good job of explaining how the system worked. The novels are somewhat cheesy, but if you like that sort of thing are entertaining.
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Cornwell's Sharpe novels (particularly the early ones) do a good job of explaining how the system worked. The novels are somewhat cheesy, but if you like that sort of thing are entertaining.
As I understand it the sale of commissions was an outgrowth of the the English Civil War(s). It was intended to keep rabble like Lilburne and Cromwell from fouling things up again.
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
As I understand it the sale of commissions was an outgrowth of the the English Civil War(s). It was intended to keep rabble like Lilburne and Cromwell from fouling things up again.
Also, one of his coworkers somewhat famously said “Unless they told me he had a heart attack, I never would have known he had a heart”. That is keeping your day job separate from your life.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Also, one of his coworkers somewhat famously said “Unless they told me he had a heart attack, I never would have known he had a heart”. That is keeping your day job separate from your life.
That explains www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAn...
BAHFest East 2017 – James Propp: Dinosaur Extinction Caused By Gravitational Reversal Event
YouTube video by BAHFest
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
That explains www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeAn...
This is like "The nine billion names of God" but with the universe ending not because humanity succeeded with its assigned task but because they failed so miserably at it.
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is like "The nine billion names of God" but with the universe ending not because humanity succeeded with its assigned task but because they failed so miserably at it.
Show him Threads, he will likely be less bemused.
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Show him Threads, he will likely be less bemused.
Why were they firing live rounds? The training rounds are cheaper and immune to accidents like this.
October 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Why were they firing live rounds? The training rounds are cheaper and immune to accidents like this.
The surprising fact, considering his experience, is that he is wrong. One of the many lessons of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social s "Lying for Money" is that the skills needed to commit fraud are pretty much the same ones needed to run a legitimate business.
October 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The surprising fact, considering his experience, is that he is wrong. One of the many lessons of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social s "Lying for Money" is that the skills needed to commit fraud are pretty much the same ones needed to run a legitimate business.
But they use it wisely.
October 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
But they use it wisely.
Do you have any recommendations for references on the early years of political/ financial support of science?
e.g.
Why did Frederick II support Tycho Brahe so extravagantly?
Why did Charles II grant the Royal Society a charter?
What convinced Parliament to fund the longitude prize?
e.g.
Why did Frederick II support Tycho Brahe so extravagantly?
Why did Charles II grant the Royal Society a charter?
What convinced Parliament to fund the longitude prize?
September 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Do you have any recommendations for references on the early years of political/ financial support of science?
e.g.
Why did Frederick II support Tycho Brahe so extravagantly?
Why did Charles II grant the Royal Society a charter?
What convinced Parliament to fund the longitude prize?
e.g.
Why did Frederick II support Tycho Brahe so extravagantly?
Why did Charles II grant the Royal Society a charter?
What convinced Parliament to fund the longitude prize?
Genuine frontier gibberish.
August 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Genuine frontier gibberish.
Convince him to read americanliterature.com/author/mark-... while maybe not completely accurate historically it predates Hearst by a good bit, and is a good description of the relation between journalism and politics in the U.S.
Journalism In Tennessee
Journalism In Tennessee by Mark Twain
americanliterature.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Convince him to read americanliterature.com/author/mark-... while maybe not completely accurate historically it predates Hearst by a good bit, and is a good description of the relation between journalism and politics in the U.S.
I would be surprised if noone had attempted to tell it.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I would be surprised if noone had attempted to tell it.
He unfortunately does not go into the origins of the laboratories, just their effect in amplifying economic acceleration.
I suspect that there is a story that starts around the Longitude rewards, goes through the 19th and 20th century and ends with the system currently being dismantled.
I suspect that there is a story that starts around the Longitude rewards, goes through the 19th and 20th century and ends with the system currently being dismantled.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
He unfortunately does not go into the origins of the laboratories, just their effect in amplifying economic acceleration.
I suspect that there is a story that starts around the Longitude rewards, goes through the 19th and 20th century and ends with the system currently being dismantled.
I suspect that there is a story that starts around the Longitude rewards, goes through the 19th and 20th century and ends with the system currently being dismantled.
A) My pleasure. I am embarrassed to admit that I read a library copy. Ironically, I blew my book budget buying a microscope.
B) I mentioned 1870 because that was @delong.social 's beginning of the long 20th century, and the research lab was one of his defining attributes of the century.
B) I mentioned 1870 because that was @delong.social 's beginning of the long 20th century, and the research lab was one of his defining attributes of the century.
July 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
A) My pleasure. I am embarrassed to admit that I read a library copy. Ironically, I blew my book budget buying a microscope.
B) I mentioned 1870 because that was @delong.social 's beginning of the long 20th century, and the research lab was one of his defining attributes of the century.
B) I mentioned 1870 because that was @delong.social 's beginning of the long 20th century, and the research lab was one of his defining attributes of the century.
Does there exist a good history of this? I was reading "So Very Small" by @tomlevenson.bsky.social, and was struck by how everything before 1870 or so was done by single scientists, but after that Pasteur and Koch got laboratories to direct.
July 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Does there exist a good history of this? I was reading "So Very Small" by @tomlevenson.bsky.social, and was struck by how everything before 1870 or so was done by single scientists, but after that Pasteur and Koch got laboratories to direct.
Though it is kind of ironic that Lehrer got sued for the "Und I'm learning Chinese" line.
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Though it is kind of ironic that Lehrer got sued for the "Und I'm learning Chinese" line.
Who cares where they come down?
May 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Who cares where they come down?
I wonder if this is a generational thing. I absolutely think better working with paper, and this has been true since before the internet. Computers win handily at search/replace and cut/paste which are invaluable polishing tools.
Things seem different for the genX and millenials I know.
Things seem different for the genX and millenials I know.
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I wonder if this is a generational thing. I absolutely think better working with paper, and this has been true since before the internet. Computers win handily at search/replace and cut/paste which are invaluable polishing tools.
Things seem different for the genX and millenials I know.
Things seem different for the genX and millenials I know.
How vulnerable is openRxiv to political vandalism?
May 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
How vulnerable is openRxiv to political vandalism?