Notices by Henry Farrell (henryfarrell@mastodon.social)

Sometimes there are weird conjunctions in my feed.

So we have ... ah ... our first Amazon review. If you've read Underground Empire and are so minded, it would be wonderful if you could rate it and perhaps even review it. I'd love it if you liked it, but would willingly settle for more sophisticated criticism than GoonerStrike https://amzn.to/3PbIyqX

Reading this by @mmasnick makes me realize that one of the great stupids of SV CEOs like Huffman is to think that they're in the data business while actually they're in the people business tinyurl.com/3bzjbrp6

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-chris-miller.html So Ezra's Chris Miller interview mentions my and Abe Newman's work in passing. But the real find was a link to a book with this amazing proto-Lovecraftian Kipling poem on deep sea cables https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/deep_sea_cables.html

They have wakened the timeless Things; they have killed their father Time;
Joining hands in the gloom, a league from the last of the sun.
Hush! Men talk to-day o’er the waste of the ultimate slime,
And a new Word runs between: whispering, “Let us be one!”

Short thread - if you're interested in sanctions, this new piece by Wally Adeyemo, the Deputy Treasury Secretary for enforcement is worth reading as a statement of USG's view of where we are. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/americas-new-sanctions-strategy A few points that I thought were particularly interesting below.

This, from an intro essay to Popper's Open Society and Its Enemies, is a particularly grim example of @kjhealy sociology of the typing wife - "I could not but smile when I saw an item in Sotheby’s catalogue photographed and described as “Popper’s typewriter.” I very much doubt that Karl ever touched its keyboard. He left it to Hennie, in what she described as the nightmare years, to type and retype countless versions and revisions." https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2007/07/28/the-last-typing-wife/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/18/collegesrankingsyale/ Why Yale (and Harvard and Berkeley) law school pulled out of the U.S. News rankings. My interview with Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder, who wrote the book explaining the U.S. News rankings empire of fear and loathing.