Gordon's Notes

Commentary: politics, science, technology and humanity. Secular humanist.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Blame IT

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Peak Human . Accelerated globalization .  Weak mass media. Weaponized Facebook. Crisis T.

Peak Human and Mass Disability are the same thing

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For reference - DeLong’s  Peak Human  and my  Mass Disability are synonyms. Both refer to a surplus of productive capacity relative to labo...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Crisis-T: stop talking about white *men*

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I don’t believe exit polls that claim half of white college women voted for Trump — though clearly that must have been true in many parts of...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

I can't recommend the Mac any more

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I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Excerpts from Remnick's recent Obama interview

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Read it … Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency - David Remnick - The New Yorker Nov 28, 2016 issue … I’m half Scotch-Irish, man!” he sai...
Thursday, November 17, 2016

The electronic health record problem list - how I'd do it for the third time

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I did corporate research and development in clinical software for about 20 years. During that time I couldn’t write about informatics ideas....
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Crisis-T: What's special about rural?

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I think 40% of Americans are disabled in the context of the modern work environment   because of automation and globalization . That’s why w...

Mass Disability - how did I come up with 40%?

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How, a friend asked, did I come up with the 40% number for “mass disability” that I quoted in  After Trump: reflections on mass disability i...
Friday, November 11, 2016

After Trump: reflections on mass disability in a sleepless night

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I’m having trouble sleeping. There are a few boring reasons for that, but the election is not helping. So it’s time to write while sleep-imp...
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Sunday, November 06, 2016

After Trump: information wants to be free, but knowledge is expensive

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Fourteen  months ago I wrote that Trump was a sign of a healthy democracy . That one might rank up with my Peak Oil prediction . I’m really...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Counterfeit Amazon

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More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple . Finally. Sold “Direct from Amazon” mind you. A...
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Sunday, October 16, 2016

How to give believers an exit from a cause gone bad

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How do you give someone who has committed themselves to a bad cause a way out? You don’t do it by beating on how stupid they are … From  H...
Monday, October 10, 2016

Cumberland Wisconsin is peculiar

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On a meandering drive home from a northern Wisconsin bike race I passed through the town of Cumberland Wisconsin . It’s in the middle of no...
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Thursday, October 06, 2016

iPad High School: 1 out of 3 students return their iPad agreement

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My daughter attends an urban high school. I think it is minority white (she’s not white). Her school has a mixed reputation. It’s effective...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Why Trump? Blame the Vermont Teddy Bear company.

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Why Trump rather than, say, Rubio? To a first approximation, the globalization and technology driven collapse of the white non-college male...
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