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GOODHART'S LAW Goodhart's Law illustrates how measures can become unreliable targets, leading to unintended consequences, much like moths drawn to harmful lights.

Goodhart's Law is one of those ideas, once you learn it, you find it everywhere.

I rewrote this post in order to read it for the podcast (so it flowed more) and it turned out so much better that I've updated the post. #MentalModels #politics #philosophy #GameTheory #GreatIdeas #Goodhart #Economics

I'm a grumpy old man with a blog post for everything :-) : rolandtanglao.com/2018/01/27/p... <-- "2018 reminder: Email will fail! Don't depend on it. Archive it by year, convert to wikis, blogs todos, calendar, etc. and then delete"

Good to see people using bouba and kiki in a kiki way. Too many people are way too bouba in their usage of the dichotomy.

The Why of Substack Not for the first time, the newsletter platform Substack is coming under criticism for hosting and now (accidentally) promoting Nazi content. Today, John Gruber of Daring Fireball is leading this c…

Don't care what people who I otherwise respect like Om Malik say about network effects blah blah :-) If the Nazi Party's newspaper paid you $USD1000 / month in 1939 to write an op-ed monthly would you do it? No. Om is wrong. rolandtanglao.com/2025/08/07/o...

I'm moving to New Nakamia.

Conversely, mind is the sleep killer.

Researchers found that pediatric ER visits for asthma decreased by 40 percent almost immediately after a local coal processing plant closed down in 2015.

Our current administration is trying to bring back and increase coal burning power plants, and working to eliminate clean air protections.

Again, it should tell you all you need to know when the policy & rhetoric pushed by certain canadian municipal councillors and premiers is also now a core pillar of the Trump playbook

just landed 5mins ago and there's a lady cop being sooo unnecessarily rude to an old Dutch lady.

America, what a country.

the train from Seatac to downtown Seattle costs $3 and goes by 1000 delicious looking Vietnamese restaurants

hey Londonians

turns out, sleep is the mind killer

Manton Reece compares Ghost and Micro.blog. (Manton wrote micro.blog.). www.manton.org

Manton Reece compares Ghost and Micro.blog. (Manton wrote micro.blog.). www.manton.org. bsky.app

The people who remain on Twitter are only descending further and further into madness.

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

Disagree. Dashboards are the "verify" part of the system automations "trust but verify" approach.

Here is how to do Ghost real real cheap: bsky.app/profile/trac...

this drumbeat feeds into larger drumbeats

- republicans are corrupt
- republicans are incompetent
- republicans are anti-woman

these are overarching narratives that the little stories should always link into

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Blog post link: rolandtanglao.com/2025/07/14/p... since the link wasn't bridged :-)

Roland Tanglao – Cypress Challenge | BC Cancer Foundation My mother died of pancreatic cancer less than 72 hours after being diagnosed in May 2013. My father-in-law died of pancreatic cancer later in 2013. This will be our 8th year riding. My mother Sofi...

Fun video link: flic.kr/p/2rhTqGG since the link wasn't bridged :-)

Roland Tanglao – Cypress Challenge | BC Cancer Foundation My mother died of pancreatic cancer less than 72 hours after being diagnosed in May 2013. My father-in-law died of pancreatic cancer later in 2013. This will be our 8th year riding. My mother Sofi...

Donate link: cypresschallenge.ca/fundraiser/r... since the link wasn't bridged :-)

<p>Please <a href="https://cypresschallenge.ca/fundraiser/roland">donate</a> to my bicycle ride 12km straight up Cypress Mountain on July 27, 2025, the <a href="http://cypresschallenge.com">Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Research.</a> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2rhTqGG">Bonus video of Sjors and I riding up Cypress</a>, bonus <a href="http://rolandtanglao.com/2025/07/14/p1-cypress-challenge-pancreatic-cancer-2025/">blog post</a> <img alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f642.png" style="height: 1em;" /></p>

Please donate to my bicycle ride 12km straight up Cypress Mountain on July 27, 2025, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Research. Bonus video of Sjors and I riding up Cypress, bonus blog post 🙂

This:

These are not dangerous criminals. They are ordinary people. This is a concentration camp. The people responsible are white supremacist fascists.

How bad do things have to get before the media starts saying this? Even Lawrence O'Donnell dances around it.

Grok is on Twitter confirming that DOGE cuts instituted by Elon Musk are to blame for reducing NWS/NOAA’s effectiveness at providing accurate weather forecasts in the recent Texas floods.

Between USAID and NWS/NOAA cuts, there’s already enough material to start a “DOGE death toll” website.

It has nothing to do with trans people defending or not defending themselves in sympathetic or unsympathetic ways.

The expansion of American transphobia from a minority position is almost wholly astroturfed (more like astroTERFed) by a few writers, editors, and capitalists at the Times, the Atlantic, and maybe NYMag.

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