Wonking Out: In Defense of Debt Gimmicks
Debunking bad arguments against platinum coins and all that.
Author: Jim
NYTimes.com: Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
Congress shouldn’t be able to invoke an arbitrary dollar limit to force the president to do its bidding.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/debt-limit.html?smid=em-share
**** [The Washington Post] He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon.
He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/
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***** NYTimes.com: Web Content by and for the Masses rj
Web Content by and for the Masses
When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she has traveled safely. And if every picture tells a story, that may be only the start. At Flickr, the popular Web photo-sharing service where Ms. Fake, a co-founder, posted the photo, it can be tagged with geographic coordinates for use in a photographic map, or become part of a communal database of images that can be searched for certain colors or characteristics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/web-content-by-and-for-the-masses.html?smid=em-share
Shared+From+Reason.com:+Fertility,+and+all+the+individual+choice+it+entails,+may+be+too+big+for+even+the+most+powerful+governments+to+control.
Storks Don’t Take Orders From the State
Falling birthrates, pro-natalist policies, and the limits of population control
https://reason.com/2023/05/02/storks-dont-take-orders-from-the-state/
NYTimes.com: Politics Can’t Fix What Ails Us
Politics Can’t Fix What Ails Us
Solutions to social problems lie close to home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/politics-civility.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes: A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up.
A Paper That Says Science Should Be Impartial Was Rejected by Major Journals. You Can’t Make This Up. nyti.ms/3p2A1gt
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NYTimes.com: Web Content by and for the Masses
Web Content by and for the Masses
When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she has traveled safely. And if every picture tells a story, that may be only the start. At Flickr, the popular Web photo-sharing service where Ms. Fake, a co-founder, posted the photo, it can be tagged with geographic coordinates for use in a photographic map, or become part of a communal database of images that can be searched for certain colors or characteristics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/web-content-by-and-for-the-masses.html?smid=em-share
NYTimes.com: Web Content by and for the Masses
Web Content by and for the Masses
When Caterina Fake arrives at the end of a plane flight, she snaps a photo of the baggage carousel with her camera phone to assure her mother, who views the photo on a Web page minutes later, that she has traveled safely. And if every picture tells a story, that may be only the start. At Flickr, the popular Web photo-sharing service where Ms. Fake, a co-founder, posted the photo, it can be tagged with geographic coordinates for use in a photographic map, or become part of a communal database of images that can be searched for certain colors or characteristics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/technology/web-content-by-and-for-the-masses.html?smid=em-share
****** NYTimes.com: We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel.
We’re Watching the End of a Digital Media Age. It All Started With Jezebel.
The feminist site Jezebel presaged major changes in the way America talks about race and gender and pioneered the fusion of audience, writers, politics and identity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/opinion/jezebel-gawker-buzzfeed-ben-smith.html?smid=em-share