Category Archives: Education

Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

25 Years On

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I’ll be doing anniversary posts here with updates. The first is from Arynne Wexler, who is so much more than a comedian.

And then there’s this:

Either he didn’t understand the nature of the enemy, or he was too enamored of his Saudi buddies in the oil business.

[Update a few minutes later]

I was in Puerto Rico, about to go to the airport for a flight back to LA, and about to call a cab to the airport. As soon as I saw the second plane hit, I knew there was no point. If I’d been home, it would have been eerie to look toward the east from our balcony, where normally every clear night you can see the planes lined up for final at LAX all the way out to Palm Springs, and see an empty sky.

[Update a few more minutes later]

Yes, the war won’t be over until we actually win, and ending the monstrous regime in Tehran will go a long way toward that.

[Update a while later]

Thoughts on asymmetric warfare, from Supersonic Redhead:

[Update a while later]

Remembering the heroes of Flight 93, by Salena Zito.

And a related oldie, by Dave Barry a year after the event: On Hallowed Ground.

[Update a few more minutes later]

James Lileks, on the martyred towers.

Replacing them would have been a big FU to the people who cheered as they fell.

Business, Education, General, Technology and Society

Some Labor Day Thoughts

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…from Supersonic Redhead:

[Afternoon update]

All we need to make it happen is the New Soviet Man!

Business, Economics, Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Boutique Bolshevism

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On the lunacy of the DSA and the loons who support it, including apparently the “big tent” Democrats.

[Afternoon update]

Yes, McCarthy was right:

Not clear how to post it in English, but there will probably be an option to translate from the French at the link.

Education, History, Law, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Popular Culture, Social Commentary

The British Caliphate

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Business, Economics, Education, History, Space, Technology and Society

The Business Of American AI

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Is it sustainable?

“…the US AI companies remind me a lot of 1970s era Detroit with the Chinese companies today playing the role of Toyota, Honda and so on. At least Detroit had mostly depreciated the majority of its factories and the like and wasn’t in the middle of building massive new ones.”

Not clear to me what this implies for the viability of space data centers.