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Razib Khan was nice enough to invite me on his podcast. We talk about my (idiosyncratic?) views on Russia & NATO expansion, the experiences in Central Europe that influenced that view, plus a trip down warblogging memory lane & some discussion about

. Thanks, Razib!

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning
Matt Welch: from blog pioneer to podcasting mainstay
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Sad to see what the promise of Q has become.

What Happened to the Q Conference?

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Easier to write this after the selloff today. But I'm a bit skeptical of what’s sometimes called the "Trump put,” the idea that the market throwing a tantrum caps the downside risk. That’s both for theoretical reasons — we shouldn’t be relying on the market to do Congress’s job — and for practical ones (the game theory gets pretty weird …

We shouldn't rely on markets to tame Trump

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"anti vaxxer...is an electric fence erected around vaccines by zealots to keep out honest inquiry by rational people on safety and efficacy, as well as on mandates, coercion, data, and personal freedom.It's time to rip this fence down, walk in, and stand your ground." -

I kept this quote from twitter ( sorry I dont have the credit but not mine)

Fun fact, the term anti-vaxxer was created in 2005 by PhARMA specifically in response to RFK Jr. article "Deadly Immunity" in Rolling Stone that was also published in Salon. Salon pulled it in 2011 and Rolling Stone removed it from their site in 2020 to stand in solidarity with profiteers over an informed public. Archive copy https://web.archive.org/web/20060621141646/http://www.robertfkennedyjr.com/articles/2005_june_16.html

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