Year: 2022
WindyTHINK
I’ve started a new website. Most of you probably know me as a guy who rants about stuff on the web. But some of you may be aware of my real job as asoftware developer. Most of the time I work on large, mature web products: The code base typically has over a million lines… Read more
What Marjorie Taylor Green doesn’t know about masks… or underwear
Week after week, the competition for greatest Marjorie Taylor Green parodist on Twitter has one clear winner: Marjorie Taylor Green. And a few days ago she showed everyone else why she’s still the champ: (Tweet text: “So many people still wearing masks. I just want to ask you. If a pair of underwear, really thick… Read more
Burning Down Twitter
Elon Musk may have been kicking employees out of Twitter to reduce operating costs, but it’s possible he couldn’t have destroyed more of Twitter’s value if he’d burned down headquarters. Let me explain… It’s common to use the word “capital” to mean money, as in capitalizing a corporation, but to an economist, capital refers basically to tools. That… Read more
Netchoice, Pruneyard, and the digital public square
The federal Fifth Circuit court has just released its ruling on Netchoice v. Paxton rejecting the argument that Texas’s new social media law violates the First Amendment. Basically, the law is a response to the way social media sites blocked and disabled people’s accounts over the last few years, often to the detriment of Trump… Read more
Trump’s “Declassified” Documents
Former President Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he declassified all the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago, although they can’t quite agree how — maybe he had a standing order that all documents removed to Mar-a-Lago from the White House were automatically declassified, or maybe he just did it with his mind. In any… Read more