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Posted on March 10, 2010 | by Ed

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3 days ago

“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*. ...

THE ROADS MUST ROLL | Gin and Tacos

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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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7 days ago

Just for fun: On the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, which detente (and Macmillan, and a lot of money) brought to Americans to read, translated into English but not otherwise altered, in 1973. It offers posterity an unusually thorough time capsule of the world as the USSR officially saw it. If you have access to a university research library there's a half-decent chance they have the set. If you ask as nicely as I do they might even unearth them from storage for you. ...

ALTERNATE REALITY | Gin and Tacos

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The recent post on the book EXIT STALIN, combined with a pleasant surprise from the local university library, is an opportune time to share

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1 week ago

On Mark Smith's recent book EXIT STALIN, the shocking paucity of trade books that actually deal directly with the how and why of the collapse of the USSR, and the utility of Smith's "Soviet Civilization" concept to "The American Dream" and an understand of our own current dilemmas. ...

EXIT STALIN, ET AL. | Gin and Tacos

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Given the obsessive centrality of the Cold War and the Soviet Menace to American politics and culture for decades, "Fall of the Soviet Union

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2 weeks ago

Move Weird Al to a secure location. ...

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2 weeks ago

This piece successfully verbalizes something I've been trying and failing to put into words lately: the powerful sense that headlines about The Leader announcing that a big special import of food is on its way are not the stuff of a thriving nation where things are going well and likely to get better. ...

Trump’s Third-Worldism

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Nothing Left but the Mess

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