Louis Anquetin

Avenue de Clichy

The Great Stupiding

continues.

Leopard

Spots.

Delphin Strungk

What a magnificent name for a composer.

Romanticizing Hunter-Gatherers

Analyzed here.

Fake News from Coyne

Here.

The NYT calls BS, as Althouse notes.  Coyne didn't just pass on the fake WaPo report, but cited “readers” and riffed on this. This is a portrait of a man with an impaired confirmation bias sensor.  Coyne is I think an honest guy, but he just lets his biases rule him sometimes.

Concerto for Piano and Flute Octet

Composed and performed by Jeroen van Veen.

“Police Department is Closed. Call 911 in case of an Emergency.”

Weinstein and Heying speak out on the future of WLU TESC.

Ban Rigor Mortis

And the other kinds too!

Happy Cow

Here

And now for something completely different.

Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald eviscerates the fake news pushers.

Update. CNN out-CNNed.

The Great Stupiding Continues

Compare and contrast.

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Bruno Turner

Examples of his doings.

A bit about him.

A nice piece of real math

From 3Blue1Brown

This Is What Trump 2020 Looks Like

Wilfrid Laurier University says to shut up

I used to live quite near the campus, and my wife worked at WLU.
This is disgraceful.
Good for her, and her questioner should be fired.


My preferred pronouns are 'I', 'me', 'mine' (Think about it.)
UPADTE Dec 2. Retaliation

More Eisenga

Requiem '53, a memorial for victims of a flood in Holland in 1953.

Waves in QM

An excellent 20 minute video on waves and wave-talk in Quantum Mechanics.

Oldie but goodie

Landsburg summarizes a remarkable and simple proof of Gödel’s Theorems. Here.

P.S. Scroll down to comment 12 too.

Dis-educated

Terrific stuff, if he survives.

UPDATE. More Scott Alexander. Excellent but looooong

Caught lying about Trump- CNN, ABC, HuffPo, NBC, NYT, AP, CNBC, Guardian

First this, where Abe can be seen dumping the rest of his box first.

And then this, showing a compendium of the media lies about it.

Update: the estimable Glenn Greenwald documents four more media spread lies this week.

Weill

How Can You Tell An American

Related

How's Trump Doing?

It might be 1/5

Coyne

On craziness

When two professional athletes need to argue about who’s been the most damaged by tattoos and dreadlocks, then you know something’s gone wrong with society.

The Mystery of Time

By Miloslav Kabeláč 

A little slow to get started, but propulsive after a while.

Free the Mind

A film score for a documentary. Here.

Worth noting

*

Update: I posted that in the expectation it would be the stupidest thing I saw on the web today. Live and learn.

Buyer's Remorse

Aretino

Set by Nyman.

Illustrated by Anselm Feuerbach

Leonardo Says

From Michael Nyman's opera Facing Goya.
I have probably posted this before but ...

BONUS Songs for Tony

Initial Reports

As of this moment I have read the following initial reports about the Las Vegas shooter, Paddock

•         Long criminal record
•        No criminal record
•         Numerous posts on facebook
•         No posts on facebook

I see people trusting initial reports all the time. In fact, when someone waited for more information, half the country went crazy condemning him.

Eric Ewazen

Pavane from an unusual trio

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun, But you have to know how!

Tribal witlessness

Everything is kneeling here. I believe Trump is a genius at distraction. The repeal of Obamacare just crashed and burned, and Trump’s endorsed candidate just lost a senate primary, but he has everyone talking about kneeling at NFL games. To his great benefit even aside from the distraction. This is a fight Trump cannot lose.  

What strikes me though is how blind the NFL was and is to what they done to themselves. A commenter name buwaya made an point I thought insightful. Sports fandom is based on a hallucination: the idea that your team are warriors for your tribe.

That might be true for high school football, but it’s not even remotely true for professional sports. That’s why the NFL’s mistake here is so big. Now people see their supposed tribal warriors being rude to them. People see disrespecting the flag as rude.

And worse than being rude to them, being rude about them.  Especially those to whom the main appeal of the NFL is rooting,  that tribal appeal I mentioned, the flag too is a tribal symbol that they value. Dissing it is dissing them. There's your tribal hero, attacking your tribe.  

So the NFL has punctured the illusion; hallucination is harder to maintain. This will be catastrophic for the NFL. One telling thing I have seen a lot of is people giving up fantasy football.  That should scare the NFL witless, but I think they already are witless. 

UPDATE: Ouch!

UPDATE Oct 19: Ouch!

Tyberg

An excellent symphony.

Charity

The NFL is a registered charity, and it claims tax exemptions available to charities. it doesn't look non-political to me.

"This lack of imagination is a common problem across most issues."

Russ Roberts

He links a Scott Alexander piece. It's loooong (as ever) but it's brilliant.

The apotheosis of Woke

Brendan O'Neill

Here. 17 minutes.

A forgotten but great cello concerto.

Vainberg aka Weinberg

Four Saints Again

I posted earlier about the new BMOP recording. It's currently on YouTube.

And it's spread DownUnder!

I have loved this for 40 years. I'm clearly a trendsetter!

Louis Andriessen - Symfonie voor losse snaren

Something unusual.

Bonus, some slightly less unusual Harrison.

Clive Crook

Clive Crook has been consistently insightful. And on cue we get immediate vindication!

Theory 1

Theory 2

Savonarola

reborn.

Let the menu purging begin!

1812

Last year I watch re-enactors play out a skirmish from the War of 1812. So I have questions.

This was in Ohio. Should the British re-enactors have been pepper-sprayed?

And when they re-enacted a battle in Ontario, should the Americans have been punched?

Romney

Finally someone in politics showing some moral courage.

I think Trump's response has been distorted and feelings whipped up, and that there’s hysteria loose upon the land, but none of that lessens Trump's responsibility to deal with it as it is. He hasn't, yet. I don’t know if he can succeed. Trump as moral clarion? It’s not plausible.  But, "comes the moment comes the man."  Clinton stepped up after the Oklahoma bombing. Johnson, even worse than Trump really, stepped up after the assassination. Will Trump?

When Did Gladys Kravitz become the role model?

Here.

UPDATE:

Normally I find this guy over the top, and I guess this is over the top too, but  today it resonates

You simply cannot say, in polite society, “basic fairness requires us to avoid a rush to judgment and to give people the right to respond to accusations.” To do so gets you lumped in with the criminals. Like a friend of mine said, “the only acceptable reaction to an accusation is enthusiastic and unqualified acceptance.”

and

Contemporary political culture is an autoimmune disorder.

  

Peas, podded

Here

Brooks's home run

600 feet.

Useful Tips from Google ...

... for their paying customers.

CNN may need to up their game.

Time comes on strong.

A Gentleman's Honor

Glass.

Bonus, some unprepared piano, by Nils Frahm.

A true micro-aggression.

Against the gas can.

Fake News, Book Edition -- Update

Here.

Tweeting as an art form

Here.

CNN's true colors

CNN is despicable.

CNN now says they kept his identity a secret for his safety. But they only know it because they hunted him down. There would be no issue of exposure had they not decided to find him out. Nice anonymity you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it.

More from Althouse.

UPDATE. CNN responds:  He was not underage!!
Fake news getting you down? Perhaps you want a retraction?

UPDATER: Here is a timeline with the CNN guy changing his story repeatedly in an attempt to obfuscate his threats.

UPDATERER: The gift that keeps on giving.

And giving. The fake news just keeps coming. and this really is fake news not just an error. Innocent errors would be random. The fake Lincoln quote too.  And the carefully edited handshake video in Poland, made to look like a snub of Trump, was reated by CNN reporters. Cilizza in particular.

RELATED. Not just CNN. Note the dates, long after the AP retraction, the NYT retraction, and the testimony of the DNI that the 17 number was bogus. It's not just an error. She is controverting Trump's assertion without bothering to check.

Fake News, Book Edition

The new book Truth in Chains is challenged. A quiet but devastating review is here.

More Melnyk

Cloud 81

How's Trump Doing?

By the platform, zero out of five. 21 May 2017.

Conceptual

penis

Coyne has a few follow up posts on this too. Here.