Signal from Noise

What I’ve been reading - 1. Mason Currey, Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life. The best overall book I know on the different methods top artist...

Tech jobs have hit an AI air pocket. Is it temporary or permanent? - Tech layoffs have picked up lately. Some pressures may be temporary as AI reshapes hiring, roles, and the future of work in Silicon Valley.

Here's What's Coming in the 2026 Apple TV - There are a lot of folks waiting for a new version of the Apple TV because the set-top box hasn't been updated since 2022. There is an update coming this y...

Wildfire ‘red flag’ warnings in effect for large chunk of the U.S. Here’s what to know - These wildfire warnings are in place up and down the country, from Texas to North Dakota and Minnesota

Declining Survey Response and Government Data - The rise of the government statistical apparatus in the 20th century was heavily based on survey data, including surveys of households and businesses. Bu...

Jobless claims: still the most positive datapoint in the entire US economy - - *by New Deal democrat* Let’s take our weekly look at jobless claims, recently perhaps the most positive datapoint in the entire economy. And it c...

Border Message - [image: Thanks to differences in logging regulations, the messages actually turned out to be visible from the air.]

Levels of Faith - How is it that some are convinced of a space future? This post looks at what grounds faith, and where it gets too shaky for my taste. Continue reading →

Music of the day - Instead of listening to a podcast on my way to work I turned on the radio and listened to a Busoni transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata, Adagio...

What I've been reading - I just finished the new book by my ertswhile colleague Al Roth. Highly recommended! The subtitle is a good summary.

Eggs, rooms, puzzles, and talking about AI - Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.

Friendship and Forgiveness - If you have invested your time and emotions in a close friendship, it's easy to feel disappointed, and forgiveness can seem beyond reach. The post Friend...

The Most Dangerous Books in Society - Research reveals that banned books don't harm kids, they create better citizens.

Amorim trả giá khi MU để mất ‘báu vật’ từ thời Sir Alex - Trong bức tranh đầy u ám của Manchester United mùa giải 2024/25, HLV Ruben Amorim đang đối mặt với một loạt thách thức để cứu vãn đội bóng. Nhưng giữa nh...

Through the looking glass - I'm living in a world that was unimaginable to me until everything started crashing down. I know what is happening, what the prez and his crony-in-chief ar...

Reading the referee reports of that retracted paper by the science reformers: A peek behind the curtain - One interesting sidelight of the story of a much criticized and finally retracted article on replication in psychology is that we get to read some of the r...

Why Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is a broken moral compass - Originally published at THE HILL.COM on 07/13/2024 When Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a law in June requiring the display of... The post Why Loui...

Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan - John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer at the *New York Times Magazine* and has written for *Harper's*, *The New Yorker*, and *GQ*. He is the au...

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack! - Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform.The engineers at Subst...

A Few Quick Announcements - By James As I wrote a couple of years ago, I don’t post here anymore. I just have a couple of updates for people who subscribe and may be interested in my ...

10 Ways City Dwellers Alleviate Secular Guilt - If a man lives in sin, away from the Church and its sacrament of confession, his soul becomes burdened with the cumulative weight of his transgressions. Si...

Q&A: Pexapark’s Luca Pedretti on Europe’s changing PPA market -

Jobless claims have best pandemic week yet - Jobless claims have best pandemic week yet This week’s new jobless claims decreased close to their pandemic lows, while the unadjusted and 4-week average...

David Tennant Can’t Hold Together Frustrating Deadwater Fell - While we don’t cover a lot of Acorn TV here on *RogerEbert.com*, I’ve always liked what they do, and jumped at the chance to review a new thriller that c...

New Floating Solar Handbook Launched - [Singapore] At the start of the 3rd International Floating Solar Symposium (IFSS) held at the Asia Clean Energy Summit (ACES) this week, the World Bank G...

America Vs Poland: Vulvo Edition - This is interesting, in a Chinese curse sort of way. Swedish car company Vulvo ran two different ads to be shown in America and Poland. lmao. Do the swedec...

Strong and Weak Technologies - During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the iPhone’s touch-...

Relativity – Part 2 - It’s 9 pm on a Friday, I come out of school after 8 hours of finance and 3 hours of marketing. My face is a mask of exhaustion, my injured brain hurts. I s...

The Dilapidated Homeless Shelter At D.C. General Finally Closes Its Doors - [image: The Dilapidated Homeless Shelter At D.C. General Finally Closes Its Doors] D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser fulfilled a promise she made when she first ran...

Flashback: Taylor Swift Makes Her Awards Show Debut in 2007 - Watch Swift perform her debut single "Tim McGraw" at the Academy of Country Music Awards, right before meeting the man himself

Where are the new blogs? - Working to update our blog lists.

The World Cup and Making Soccer Less Boring - It is World Cup time, a good time to reintroduce two posts I did one of the last times we had the World Cup capture the imagination. One of them suggests ...

Hannity Promises To Expose CNN & NBC News In "EpicFail" - *"Tick tock."* In a mysterious tweet yesterday evening to his *3.19 million followers,* Fox News' Sean Hannity offered a preview of what is to come from ...

Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...

China: Choosing More Debt, More Unemployment, Or Transfers - I have often written in this blog and elsewhere about the three policy choices Beijing faces as it tries to manage through the adjustment process. My argum...

Wisconsin in Last Place for Start-up Activity - The Kauffman Foundation has just released its report on startup activity. Wisconsin comes in last place in startup density. Figure 1: Source: Kauffman Foun...

LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: “A Hero’s Welcome” - [image: Peter Paul Payack, LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: "A Hero's Welcome"] Visit peterpaulpayack.com for more ‘Life on the Left Bank’ cartoons! …

13 Questions to Joost - I have realized that I have a choice in every moment. Being aware is a choice. I still forget now and than but I have learned that it works in this way. Ho...

Goodbye Blogger, Hello WordPress: Mish's GlobalEconomicAnalysis has Moved to MishTalk.Com - It's been a long run, but I am leaving Google Blogger for a new home on WordPress. Please bookmark my new site: http://mishtalk.com/ Why Leave? My needs...

IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play? - IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month -- buying the stream...

Seth Roberts Community on Facebook - A new group on Facebook has been set up to continue discussions on topics that Seth covered: personal science, self-experimentation, scientific method, and...

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To be continued - As promised, I am bringing this blog to a close. If you’re so inclined, feel free to pop over to my new blog. I’ll do my best to keep it entertaining, slig...

Farewell - In memoriam: Gary S. Becker, 1930-2014. The Becker-Posner blog is terminated. Richard A. Posner

Post Felix - Today is Felix’s last day at Reuters. Counterparties may have been the brainchild of Felix and the recently departed Ryan McCarthy, but the blog, site, new...

Where to Eat: Two Chain Restaurants Worth Trying - Maybe it's because I grew up in a small city. Or maybe it's because my family has been in the restaurant business for as long as I can remember. Either way...

Follow Our Environmental Coverage - Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.

Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read - [image: Instapaper 4 Icon] *Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone* The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 v...

Bostonist Bids Adieu - [image: Bostonist Bids Adieu] There's no clever way to say it: This is the last word from Bostonist. Last week, Gothamist informed me that Bostonist will b...

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