The Shining is the most "weirdly great" movie. It seems like it's about Jack's mind, except that at least one of the ghosts is clearly revealed to have corporeal capabilities. Many scenes are downright goofy. And yet, somehow it sticks with you.

This labor day, I would like to celebrate my favorite kind of labor: labor that was done in the past to create things that still benefit us today - whether that be structures, equipment, research, intellectual property, or organizational knowhow. 🥰

The thing I don't get about the UK system is that... why not just use upper-class voice? I am a Yank even I can mimic some of the characteristics of high-class and low-class Brit speech. Surely an enterprising low-class Brit could just change accents?

If you don’t think of me when you hear the phrase “Tax Doom Loop” then now is the chance to recalibrate your random word association algorithm … courtesy of ⁦Andy Duehren and ⁦The New York Times⁩. nytimes.com/2024/09/03/us/…

There's going to be so much envy about the millennials who got a job in 2010 (admittedly, difficult) and socked away money in their 401ks through the entire insane 2010-2024 bull market.

The online trad community always rubs me the wrong way b/c they don't have enough functional experience with what they claim to want a pregnant woman with 7 children under the age of 5? They don't see this incongruity b/c they don't know to look.

One important facet of win probability models is that percentage points isn't really a constant measure. They're very "cheap" in the middle range. They swing easily. There's little difference between 45% and 55%. By contrast, the difference between 89% and 99% is "expensive."

Ahmed Mohamud of Melbourne, Australia, sure is plugged in with senior White House staff

Somewhere out there, there is a Dodge Challenger driver who is actually a good driver. I'm not saying I have ever seen this. I am just assuming. given the combinatorics of hundreds of thousands of these cars on the road, there's probably 1-2 good Challenger drivers somewhere.

Guy who is mad at JK Rowling specifically because Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire sends a wrong message about the viability of parlay bets, which almost always strongly favor the house.

You know the scene in Silence of the Lambs when Clarice is walking down a long, dark hall in an insane asylum to meet Hannibal Lecter, and the patients scream psychotic things at her? That’s what scrolling X feels like.

Woah, the guy really did say "the" instead of "a," at least once. Not to spend too much time on responding to something dumb but: Churchill didn't become PM until after Germany had already invaded Poland, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, and Norway.

Tucker Carlson’s interview with Holocaust apologist Darryl Cooper was full of falsehoods about World War II, Churchill, and Hitler. Given the size of the audience, historian @vdhanson has written a systematic response: thefp.pub/4dQbGPs

We Arnold Ventures were frustrated that the US publishes data on the # of hogs slaughtered each day with a one day lag but national crime stats only annually, 9 months later. Since the FBI can't/won't publish more timely data, we funded the creation of realtimecrimeindex.com