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LOGIC OF CROWDS

Posted on March 9, 2009 | by Ed

First day posts at the Putz, including some photographic evidence of dubious estimates of crowd sizes.

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He looks like "Pennis Gillette" at a Drag King show in Muncie in 2009. He looks like the one guy in every curling club who curls in shorts and a t-shirt because "my legs don't get cold." He looks like the Geddy in Worcester's second-best Rush tribute band, "Test for Echo." He looks like he glued a false goatee on in the rear view mirror of his Stratus so that he could eat at a Potbelly he was banned from for washing his balls in the sink. ...

Pete Hegseth's firing squad livestream has fans in the defense industry

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Co-founders of Palantir and defense tech firm Anduril are defending "public and brutal" executions.
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This is a cut scene to the White House in a Verhoeven movie from 1987. ...

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On John Updike, narcissism at the end of the world, the next step beyond narcissism, and Renee Good's mom explaining how she voted for Trump to kill other people's children, not hers.
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In one of the best book reviews of my lifetime, David Foster Wallace skewered what he called the Great Male Narcissist novelists of the post
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If you have ever wondered about the apparent illogic of the U.S. exporting 2 barrels of crude oil for every 3 barrels it imports, here's a brief explainer. It has to do with our refineries coming from one era and set of assumptions and our domestic crude coming from another. ...

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On the surface, a weird thing about the oil industry in the United States is that we are simultaneously a big producer, a big importer, and
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“When a population is dependent on a machine, they are hostages of the men who tend the machines.”

On AI outages and Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll" (Astounding Science Fiction, 1940), which is often mischaracterized as an anti-technology jeremiad but is actually a prescient warning about *people*.
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This morning's brief outage of several of the big-name AI tools shines a light on a question Robert Heinlein posed in 1940 and that in the h
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