Notices by Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)

This interview with the author of /Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism/ is not bad on how Smith’s thought has been distorted: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revisiting-the-father-of-capitalism/id1081584611?i=1000665865388 https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics/113153115118145867

@donaldball @inthehands @dimsumthinking I don’t know the rules around this. When I read “bike trails”, I thought of the kind of trails mountain bikes are for. Do people try to keep ebikes off of side-of-the-road, in-town bike lanes? That seems wrong.

(And are there jurisdictions that actually *enforce* rules on bike lanes? Here, we all – ebikes, bikes, skateboards, are constantly dodging cars parked in the bike lanes.)

@inthehands @dimsumthinking I might look more carefully. I may be missing discrete assistance.

The Kids These Days all seem to ride powered skateboards or weird balancy things or scooter-type ebikes rather than Real Bikes. Or they ride buses. The city mass transit buses don’t collect fares at campus and nearby stops, so buses are packed between classes and the bike lanes are mostly empty.

@inthehands @baldur The Atlantic loves, loves, loves its narratives and “there’s something wrong with the Youths” is a big one. I gritted my teeth and stuck it out my subscription for too long because of Ed Yong.

But we should pity the poor author. You’re out there to gather supporting quotes for a pre-ordained conclusion and some damn subject-matter expert just insists on complicating things.

@dimsumthinking @inthehands I have Strong Opinions about the hale and hearty students who are riding their rental ebikes all around and never bothering to pedal. It’s a red letter day when I see someone pedaling an ebike.

I’m judgmental that way, at least about the Damn Kids.

@dimsumthinking @inthehands You can get these bikes in the US? I idly peeked and it seemed to be a Europe bike.

@inthehands I don’t think Ezra Klein heard me, and Dawn has little influence at the NYTimes.

@inthehands I’m for the equivalent to the Clooney op-ed in the Washington Post. Maybe from Hulk Hogan.

Drove Dawn to O’Hare yesterday. Listened to Ezra Klein podcast. Annoyed Dawn by continually saying to Mr. Klein, “So this is where you call for the GOP to dump Trump, right?” Preferably with some giddy speculation about how exciting the succession struggle would be. But no.

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus Since you said that nice thing, may I present my sole academic sociology publication: “Agile Software Development: A Manglish Way of Working”¹, in a followup book collection: /The Mangle IN Practice/² (2009).

¹https://user.fm/files/v2-21dcabb6abbfd8ebc5fabfe1e6f8fa65/marick-truly-final-dammit.pdf
²https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-mangle-in-practice

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus FYI: here’s my summary of what Pickering says about quaternions: http://www.exampler.com/old-blog/2004/02/13/index.html

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus /Proofs and Refutations/ is a wonderful book.

@inthehands @ct_bergstrom @jenniferplusplus Pickering’s /The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science/¹ is along similar lines, using the example of the bubble chamber (invented because Glaser wanted to do lab-top science, but ended up inventing a symbol of Big Science) and Hamilton’s quaternions (he was trying to solve a completely different problem).

¹ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/556449.The_Mangle_of_Practice

@Asymmetricblue @evan Did Mondale play golf? I think some Minnesotans do.

https://www.mngolf.org/Courses

@inthehands *I’m* impressed. (The reality of portaging[?] a canoe came as rather a shock to me, first time.)

@inthehands I had a similar epiphany when Obama said, publicly and often, that the ACA was the greatest thing since sliced bread, when he surely knew it was an awkward compromise. It was explained to me that saying what all those senators and congresspeople had risked their careers to support “kinda sucks, but it’s the best we could do” won’t exactly keep them as allies next time.

Iterated, high-visibility games are the norm. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1048424.Governing_the_Commons

@inthehands @designatednerd Please do. I’ve not reposted a number of your posts because I try to be scrupulous about #uspol

@rationaldoge @inthehands My first reaction was, “huh? They didn’t take the bribe! They reported it!” Then I realized knowing the defendants had friends willing to break the law so substantially might just possibly provide a titch of bias against the defendants.

@donaldball @inthehands @mybarkingdogs It hurt, canceling my subscription, because Ed Yong’s work on Covid was stellar.

Elvis Costello’s “My Aim Is True”: best debut album of the ‘70s or just near the best?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJTIIfhk2k4&list=RDFJTIIfhk2k4&start_radio=1

@inthehands @dimsumthinking My impression from the interview is that she was always a person of perky character who liked making weird vocal noises. So I think the arrow of time doesn’t allow for your theory.

I did notice when I was finding the link that it was only the first of two episodes. The shownotes for the second suggest there may be more about her actual work. For you – *just* for you – I’ll listen and report back.