Probability
July 19, 2020
What is the chance that the US will be a democracy a year from now?
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Rules of patch cables
July 18, 2020
The first rule. When doing any kind of music recording using hardware, for any new device then no matter how many patch cables you have, you always will be missing at least one of the ones you need.
The second rule. The first rule remains true even if the device comes with suitable cables.
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The ruins of a mind
July 20, 2020
'The plan is to have no plan' is not a strategy, really. Nor would I call it a policy. It has a kind of logic to it, but this is different from saying it has a design – or a designer. Meaning: I do not want to be too conspiratorial about this. To wing it without a plan is merely the best this government can do, given who heads the table. The manufacture of confusion is just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the presidency. There is no genius there, only a damaged human bein...