I'm used to people mistaking Switzerland for Sweden, but I've never run into anyone putting the Baltic Sea smack dab in the middle of the North Atlantic (these islands are off west coast of Sweden). Doesn't give high hopes for the intelligence of AI. #applemapsfail

Really great job for anyone who followed, or was part of, our efforts with currency&empire

Jiffy Lube distinctly unjiffy.

Stockholm’s busy central bus station’s “tickets and help” desk in the middle of a weekday workday. The machines have definitely taken over.

We’re in peak-navel-gazing era in our culture when we can have “début” memoirs. It implies and assumes that the audience would happily gobble up a second one.

Isn't this the plot to Rob Lowe's #Unstable on Netflix? I didn't realize it was a prescient work of utopian fiction, up there with Bellamy's Looking Backward. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Great article comparing dominant economics’ to medieval prognosticators. Worth recalling Smith’s endless harping on “men of system”….

This article on the Taliban in Kabul is basically Simmel’s “The Metropolis & Mental Life, Revisited (and affirmed)” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/…

Classic statement on how loans work between Africa and the West. Looted from Africa and then loaned to Africa.

I’m confused. Why not just consult his own Afterword to the 2nd German Edition?