This thread is vitally important to understanding how politics plays out post-election. https://t.co/HPaPriudq9 — Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) October 20, 2016 via https://twitter.com/hangingsliders
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck
2016.11.13 – 09:47
Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck It should be clear at a glance just how dependent the American economy is on truck drivers. According to the American Trucker Association, there are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the US, and an additional 5.2 million people employed within the truck-driving industry […]
This Is Who We Are
2016.11.11 – 08:47
This Is Who We Are “It’s fair to wonder if the forces and fighters arrayed against bigotry will ever share in a total victory. Perhaps the well is just too deep, and America will always return to what it has been, regardless of how far it is stretched and progressed. It’s fair to wonder if […]
The importance of seeing yourself clearly
2016.11.10 – 17:12
The importance of seeing yourself clearly from: November 10, 2016 at 03:49PM
The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse
2016.11.10 – 07:54
The forces that drove this election’s media failure are likely to get worse “There’s plenty of blame to go around, but the list of actors has to start with Facebook. And for all its wonders — reaching nearly 2 billion people each month, driving more traffic and attention to news than anything else on earth […]
Obama and The Wrong Side of ‘the Right Side of History’
2016.11.09 – 14:48
Obama and The Wrong Side of ‘the Right Side of History’ Obama has mentioned “the arc of history” a dozen times since his election. The problem with this kind of thinking is that it imputes an agency to history that doesn’t exist. Worse, it assumes that progress is unidirectional. But history is not a moral […]
Median Voter Last Name
2016.11.08 – 13:57
Median Voter Last Name “Larkowski is the median last name if you lined up all voters in alphabetical order.”
Crony Beliefs
2016.11.07 – 09:38
Crony Beliefs “So if a brain anticipates that it will be rewarded for adopting a particular belief, it’s perfectly happy to do so, and doesn’t much care where the reward comes from — whether it’s pragmatic (better outcomes resulting from better decisions), social (better treatment from one’s peers), or some mix of the two. A […]