Parts of this blog were made “private”; about 800 posts remain online
As this blog is not read much, in 2025 I removed about 2,000 posts, leaving about 800.
Policy: Tourists to US required to provide 5 years of social media posts
This marks the end of social media. We have no idea what they are looking for and can be misconstrued. Only safe option is leaving social media.
Europeans claim the US has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
The BBC mischaracterizes Twitter’s old Blue check
The BBC does not understand the old Twitter Bluecheck, which was restricted only to the elite.
The financial idiocy on X is off scale
Read the Community Notes correction …
Climate: COP30 seems to be suggesting a call for censorship…
“Truth” comes solely from government, academics, and environmental journalists.
Climate: Climate change news coverage of COP has vanished
I noticed this too
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Social: The idiocy on X is off scale
The idiocy on X is off scale.
Reporter does not understand amortized mortgages
Reporters should never, ever, be left in a room, by themselves, with a number.
Media: The “average cost of weddings” is $33k
The “average” wedding costs $33,000 or $35,000? No it doesn’t.