Oh, my. My mind is blown. I highly, highly recommend this article about a slice of history of which I knew nothing, most especially to my white readers in the USA: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Catchphrase: 'Free, White, and 21'Note that it has quite a bit of A/V content; there's a YouTube video at the start that you should really watch at ( Read more... )

Oh, WOW.

When I wrote "[p/a/s, biz/econ, sysdyn, Patreon] Massless Ropes, Frictionless Pulleys", it kept trying to spiral out of control, so I made some ruthless decisions to cut some lines of discussion ( Read more... )

So it turned out all the Y2K preparation wasn't wasted: [Federal Reserve Vice Chairman] Ferguson, considered a deliberative and thoughtful man by his staff, [the morning of Sept 11, 2001] settled into his office and turned on his television to keep track of the markets. When the second plane hit the World Trade Center no one had to tell Ferguson, ( Read more... )