I just stumbled upon the knowledge that [Windows key + period] gives you a popup menu where you can get special characters including the em dash. I am unable to find the words for my emotions at this moment
i read recently about how one thing that claims lives in otherwise survivable crisis situations is that people just refuse to believe that what is happening is happening and are cognitively unable to respond to the situation at hand.
Big congrats to AJR (not the band) on their prize, and no, I do not believe that my citation put them over the top. econjwatch.org/articles/lon...
Apropos of, well, everything, I've been thinking a lot about the fragility of democracy, Rawls and Nozick, "big" arguments, and when it's time to recognize that those arguments are made beside the point by the current political choice at hand. economistwritingeveryday.com/2024/10/14/a...
Robert Nozick and John Rawls were intellectual rivals, friendly colleagues, and even members of the same reading group. Their conversations, at least the ones we were privy to through their iterati…
Congrats to Acemoglu/Johnson/Robinson for their Nobel. Their work on how colonial regimes focused on resource extraction inflicted long-term damage was clever and important. Also of some current relevance, but I’ll save that for another post.
The only thing that has happened all year was Biden’s exit
An absolute humanitarian disaster
"Those who remain [in northern Gaza] would be considered combatants — meaning military regulations would allow troops to kill them — and denied food, water, medicine and fuel, according to a copy of the plan given to The Associated Press by its chief architect..." apnews.com/article/hama...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants.
It's October 12 and you do not need to argue with strangers on the internet about voting. If you actually want people to vote, campaigns will happily put you to work.