“It is my hypothesis that, back in the 2000s, everybody’s activation energy was a bit lower. More of us were bloggers, back then. Linking felt more natural, somehow. Now, in the 2020s, the algorithms do most of that work. You must lower your activation energy again. When a thoughtful reader shares a link, it’s not intrusive. It’s…
Month: September 2024
“Paris 2024 must learn from London’s broken promises if legacy is to be fulfilled” – Jonathan Liew (Guardian)
Not really the residents of Newham, Hackney and Waltham Forest, thousands of whom have been waiting years for social housing while luxury developments stud the skyline. Of the 33,000 new homes that will be built on or near the Olympic site by 2036, just over a third will be affordable, against the original bid pledge…
“The Secret That’s Driving Up Highway Costs” – Boondoggle
“Studies like this are why I get supremely annoyed by folks who like to talk about the “size of government” as if it’s meaningful measure of anything. Government should have the resources necessary to do the jobs it has to do and do them well. Are there too many people and dollars sloshing around the…
“Shameless” – John Elledge
“And really, have you noticed anyone from the anti-regulation, small state-ist, let-the-market-rip side of politics questioning their beliefs or publicly considering the links between those and this disaster? The silence, as Ian Dunt has noted, is deafening. We’ve been here before. The financial crisis happened under a Labour government – but the decades of deregulation…
“Big publishers think libraries are the enemy” – Molly White
“These licenses permit the libraries to lend out their e-books, typically, to a single patron at a time per copy, for a fixed number of times or for a fixed duration. This is ostensibly to mimic the wear and tear on typical physical books that forces libraries to periodically purchase new copies, but in reality…
“The mistakes of 2019 could cost Harris the election” – Nate Silver
“Democratic messaging often suffers from the sheer abundance of potential attack lines on Trump, causing voters to tune out. The aforementioned whiny progressive media critics don’t seem to understand that elevating every minor controversy surrounding Trump only reduces the signal-to-noise ratio and makes them look like the boy who constantly cried wolf” https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-mistakes-of-2019-could-cost-harris