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Paul Krugman: Conscience of a Liberal
The Confluence
Suburban Guerrilla Ian WelshHappy Presidents Day!
I’ve done another podcast episode but this has nothing to do with Washington or Lincoln.
In this episode, I review what it means to be gaslighted, how plot lines in HBO series can lead to the further distrust of scientists, and how the BITE model works on MAGA people and the SuperBowl.
You can listen to it here at Hey! We’re Here! Episode 11: Connections.
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Corrente (Lambert) Avedon’s Sideshow
The Confluence 
Charles Boyer. That’s the actor you’re trying to remember.
Nice to have a voice to associate with the blog posts.
Yes!! That’s what his name was. Thanks for that. As for my voice, I can’t stop laughing at the absurdity of the country we are living in these days. It’s like an Ianesco play. We’ll all turn into rhinoceroses and it will be completely normal.
Let me know if you want to laugh with me on a podcast. You don’t have to use your real name.
On True Detective:
When I worked at NCAR, we actually did have a case of a Climatology PhD student who had put all of his data on a temporary filesystem that was subject to periodic purges. He somehow ignored the five automated emails he was sent telling him his data was about to be purged and he should save it somewhere else. He didn’t. He was very upset. So, it can happen.
I spent a January in Fairbanks once (1996, actually). Not above the Arctic Circle, but still really, really dark. The scientists I worked with at UAF used to like to hunt. And go out for beers. You sort of have to be outdoorsy to live there.
The mad/hubristic scientist/scholar has been a literary trope since Dr. Faustus. It enjoys periodic revivals (after WW I, during the Cold War, etc.). We seem to be in one of those periods now (plagues are scary, after all). I hope it passes soon.
About the server, the activist didn’t destroy the server. She knocked a whole bunch of core samples on the floor and broke them open. But the last researcher in the station said they had almost figured out what they had. The implication was that they were >< close to publish which meant that they had almost all the data they needed. And for a discovery that significant, they were probably better off using the stations refrigerated storage unit than the creepy ice cave with the janky generator. The station above was full of the most modern equipment. These days, no one stores their stuff on a server. These days, it’s all on a cloud and everything is distributed. So there is no way all that research was gone.
Did you see that star shaped thing they used to stab the environmental activist?
What is that thing?? I’ve never seen anything like that in the lab. It looked like some kind of special screw driver not some instrument common to a research lab. But what do I know?
The star shaped thingy (technical term) was on a drill press, wasn’t it? It sort of looked like an Apple pentalobe screwdriver on steroids to me. Couldn’t figure out what it was for. It’s Hollywood, RD. Plausibility isn’t their strong suit.
If I were going to ventilate an environmental activist, I think I’d use something sharper.
Is that what Rose was doing? Ventilating bodies?
My understanding is that, if you really want a corpse to sink and stay sunk you need to puncture the gut as well so gases produced from decomposition won’t accumulate and give it buoyancy. Probably a much slower phenomenon in Alaska but still – news you can use!
I wonder how much of the Putin Caucus’s blasé attitude about Russian aggression comes from geographical as well as historical ignorance. After all, Ukraine isn’t the only country that borders Russia. We do, too: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E22AQGfSYBKLRKZMw/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1708255363206?e=1711584000&v=beta&t=bEl6KOKKx9R8XNmxNjIX0_mTqWG767C_J0Cf5XI5XjM
People like Trump, Tucker, and Gaetz seem to think Russia is on the other side of the planet. It isn’t. It’s 55 miles away at its closest point (closer than Cuba). There’s a reason why there’s a “Russian River” and a town named “Sebastopol” in California, after all.