Category Archives: Water Cooler

Today’s Water Cooler: Warren’s Cherokee eruption, Booker and charters, Gabbard, Biden Agonistes, the SOTU, a Manhattan dinner party, international trade, productivity and costs, mortgage applications, housing, online advertising, geo-engineering, climate optimism, Karl Polanyi

Today’s Water Cooler: Booker, Booker, Booker, Warren, Sanders, SOTU, Pelosi and #MedicareForAll, services, Target, QuadrigaCX bitcoin debacle, recession calls, CO2 removal, “fight club” charges dropped, sex ed, Henry Miller, Ursula LeGuin, Philosophers International

Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread

Today’s Water Cooler: Booker announces, Howard Schultz, Klobuchar, employment situation (“quirky”), manufacturing, consumer sentiment, retail, SS7 hacking, smartphones, Apple,Sony, Amazon, 5G, crude oil, Enbridge 3, teachers strikes, Der Speigel, Dave Asprey, Apollo computing, recursion, nihilism

Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Medicare for All, Sanders on estate taxes, Bloomberg, AOC, the Wall, personal income, jobless claims, new home sales, manufacturing, OxyContin, Comcast, Tesla, the cold snap, forest fires, sea stars, Amazon and unions, memorization, MySpace

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Howard Schultz, Harris, Bloomberg, Clinton, beyond George Lakoff, impeachment, soft coup, Stacey Abrams, GDP, home sales, ADP employment, Facebook, InstaCart, Google, Apple, the polar vortex, animism, billionaires, labor power, bloatware, “You’re fine”

Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, Warren, Trump, Virginia schools and Amazon, corruption in Chicago, Google donations, AI and “reinforcement learning,” computer architecture, platforms and biopower, Jacob Hacker, Silicon Valley, Gustave Doré

Today’s Water Cooler: Wilbur Ross on China, China solar panels, Warren’s wealth tax, Sanders on Venezuela, Air Traffic controller sickout?, Democrat culture, charters, Tesla, Theranos, flash crash, housing, newspapers, TVA, tectonics, Erik Olin Wright, footnotes, hagfish slime

Today’s Water Cooler: Tariffs and auto, Harris 2020, Venezuela, 2018 dark money, Pelosi and Biden on Republicans, DSA, leading indicators, manufacturing, jobless claims, apparel, Amazon, CP, Anheuser-Busch, Deliveroo, soil, groundwater, Zuckerberg, Alzheimers, rotary mixers

Today’s Water Cooler: Harris, Sanders, marginal top rates, Trump and church-goers, manufacturing, architectural billings, flying cars, eyeglasses, global warming and aerosols, Greenland ice, Bryan Singer and R. Kelley, LA teachers strike, venture capital, particle physics

Today’s Water Cooler: Warren, Harris, Sanders, “brunch,” cognitive illiberalism, existing home sales, Grab, Apple, concentration and Silicon Valley, Canadian Medicare v. ObamaCare, the Sacklers and their museums, LA teachers strike, government shutdown, socialist feminism, Buke & Gasse

Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.