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20 Apr 2018, 2:29 am
“The ideas of liberty and equality have been an irresistible force,” Stevens wrote. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 4:08 am
Louisiana “presents to the justices what likely will be an irresistible constellation of issues,” including “prosecutorial misconduct,” “police interrogation of an intellectually disabled teenager,” and “the misapplication of the ‘Brady Rule’ of pretrial discoverymerged with Louisiana’s dubious reliance on malleable ‘summaries’ of testimony. [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 8:57 am
Back by popular demand, Sonny’s BBQ will offer the “IRS” – Irresistible Rib Special – on April 17. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 4:00 am
Presented with such prescient text from a time before Web 2.0 (an expression coined in 2004), before “big data” and before today’s AI craze, I of course had an irresistible urge to seek for current insight about our technological future from the same author. [read post]
2 Apr 2018, 4:34 am
And it meant that they needed you good and hooked, “addicted” as Sean Parker has said, to all those likes and comments and comments on comments to keep you working for them for free in the great tradition of drug fueled manipulators as Professor Alter demonstrates in his very important book Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 10:14 am
I’m sure it won’t kill the online-services-are-company-towns meme because it’s too irresistible to plaintiffs, but those who continue to advance the arguments will increasingly look like judicial activists. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 5:00 am
The near-unanimous vote tallies in landmark sanctions bills of the last decade reveal the extent to which imposing sanctions is irresistibly good domestic politics. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 6:48 am
The result: an odoriferous stew of political rhetoric that is nearly irresistible to those on the inside and confusingly abhorrent to those on the outside. [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
All we know for sure is that if you stray from it, if you betray it—whatever it is—you have sinned against what it means to be an American.It is precisely this vague potency that makes it such an irresistible rhetorical weapon. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 8:00 pm
It’s almost irresistible for people to presume that a piece of software that deals so fluently with words must surely know what they mean. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 7:15 am
Despite the calls for restraint, many find social media simply too irresistible and can inadvertently undermine their cases by saying or doing the wrong thing and then broadcasting it far and wide. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 11:00 am
PDF Version A review of Niall Ferguson, “The Square and the Tower, Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook” (Penguin, 2018). *** These days, everyone seems to meet online. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 8:50 am
The opportunity to buy a house is irresistible, and is also the largest expense most people will ever incur. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 7:41 pm
The idea of a bankruptcy procedure for large, systemically important financial institutions exercises an irresistible draw for some policymakers and academics. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:41 pm
The deployment of such social forces has always centered on an irresistible weaponization of education--that is probably among the most potent disruptive to the current world orders. [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 8:54 am
Even then, no matter what the app’s disclosures say, I rarely grant apps permission to access my location–only when it’s absolutely necessary to the apps’ functioning–because inevitably both government and private actors will find it irresistible to misuse that information. [read post]
28 Jan 2018, 1:55 pm
The irresistible lure of money has given rise not only to a sophisticated and legitimate industry of financial advisory services and tax planners, but also a nefarious underworld populated by various types of predators, some of whom may be affiliated with large, legitimate investment firms. [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm
The Appeal of the Drug Story (Or, the Irresistible Allure of Painless Solutions)As I described in my last column, the Drug Story places the blame for mass incarceration on the War on Drugs, and especially on the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of low-level, non-violent drug offenders. [read post]
20 Jan 2018, 11:49 am
Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging “gaming the stats” or “teaching to the test. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 4:26 pm
Chances are you'll find one part of that future – social credit scoring – both appalling in principle and irresistible in practice. [read post]
