Paul Krugman @pkrugman @paulkrugman.substack.com today mentioned "an old military axiom" about professionals and logistics. I did a little digging, and it's more recent than I thought:

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/quotes/#:~:text=Amateurs%20talk%20about%20strategy%20and%20tactics%2E%20Professionals%20talk%20about%20logistics%20and%20sustainability%20in%20warfare%2E%E2%80%9D

Today's blog post:

Historian of fascism Ruth Ben-Ghiat surveys the fragile state of American democracy, and lists the things authoritarians do to undermine democracy.

It terrified me.

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/ben-ghiat-fall-of-democracy/

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RE: https://universeodon.com/@Edmonds_Scanner/116206557203756295

A few economists disagree.

The loudest of them tend to get eaten by curious ghost cats.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/116188244389493216

We've all had days when the keyboard seems to invite this.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134590715834642

Now *there's* a turn of phrase:

"What used to be bicycles for the mind are now subscription-based pickup trucks driven by Nazis in a neverending demolition derby."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116127740444038853

Dunno if I believe it yet, but it's at the edge of being almost plausible to me.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115983875604010038

Numbers don't lie.

They do, however, occasionally burn.

Today's blog post:

Addendum re AI LLMs providing little benefit in business deployments. Price Waterhouse Coopers joins & agrees with MIT, CMU, Boston Consulting Group, the BBC, Reuters, The Economist, and Oxford Economics.

Evidence is piling up.

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-2026/#addendum-2026-jan-22-price-waterhouse-coopers-agrees

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115712538140436815

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

— Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, archbishop of Recife and apostle of social justice

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/quotes/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhen%20I%20give%20food%20to%20the%20poor%2C%20they%20call%20me%20a%20saint.%20When%20I%20ask%20why%20the%20poor%20have%20no%20food%2C%20they%20call%20me%20a%20communist.%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94%20Dom%20H%C3%A9lder%20Pessoa%20C%C3%A2mara%2C%20archbishop%20of%20Recife%20and%20apostle%20of%20social%20justice

@smach

Just found your blog post on "Career-Adjacent Hobby Projects" in retirement.

It looks like we both have about the same idea of being retirement data nerds:

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/

Today's blog post:

A little girl demonstrates on video how to break zip-ties, in her words "in case you get kidnapped".

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/in-case-zip-ties/

“The fact that Sam Altman can ship such mediocre software and get more coverage and attention than every meaningful scientific breakthrough of the last five years combined is a sign that our society is sick, our media is broken, and that the tech industry thinks we're all fucking morons.”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

Today's blog post:

Stanford political scientist @adambonica.bsky.social has data on DOGE firings targeting "liberal" agencies. We analyze it, from Fisher Exact Tests to crossvalidated/LASSO logistic regression.

It's all revenge/bias, not cost-trimming.

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/trump-polit-targets/

A while ago I was talking to a researcher and he was like “a few years ago through field research I found out that __ and wrote about it, it was such an exciting find” and then added “and it’s amazing how smart ChatGPT is, recently I asked it the same thing, and it came to the same conclusion as I did in my research!”

My man, ChatGPT didn’t come to the same conclusion you did and it isn’t smart. It stole words from your article and didn’t give you credit.

That’s not amazing, that’s plagiarism.

How long do you think it'll be before their keyword search scripts flag a false positive on "DEI" when they read "Opus Dei"?

Today's blog post, brought to my attention by:
@sphakos @jenniferplusplus

In the 2022 tech layoffs, 70% of those laid off were women, who made up only 20% of the tech workforce.

Does a Bayesian analysis show this is evidence of bias? Yes, by a factor of 8.8x in the male/female likelihood ratio.

https://www.someweekendreading.blog/2022-tech-layoffs-bias/