Doctor Moss

On the Anniversary of My Death On the Anniversary of My Death “Who the fuck in their right mind would want everlasting life.” Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev in “The Death of Stalin” I’ve just passed birthday 73. Holy …

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Your Zen Moment of Santa Cruz Sunrise

Your Thanksgiving Sunrise Moment of Zen in Santa Cruz

Aces are great, but putting all your chips on one pitcher may not be a sound betting strategy. In 2024 263 pitchers spent time on the IL. That's almost 9 pitchers per team. Your ace has a good chance of being one of them.

Your Moment of Rescued Sea Lion Zen

This is Rebound. He beached himself a couple of weeks ago at Its Beach in Santa Cruz. We reported him to #MarineMammalRescue, they rescued him and diagnosed him with leptospirosis. Bad news, but Rebound beat it and was released back into the sea on Wednesday.

Wonderland Alley

It's a Dog's World

Trust, Deception, and ChatGPT: Down the Rabbit Hole “People earn trust over time through consistency and by taking responsibility for their actions. I don’t have that capacity.” ChatGPT

A Take on ChatGPT That You Haven't Seen Before

The View from the Cave

The Crab Nebula
A popular object for amateur astronomers.
It's the remnant of a supernova explosion about a thousand years ago and about 6500 light years away.

Doctor Moss's review of Philosophy as Poetry 5/5: These three lectures provide Rorty with the chance to give us an overview of his thoughts on the role of philosophy, both academic and in the “real world,” and the binds that tie philosophy and p...

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Here Be Dragons

Doctor Moss's review of On Freedom 4/5: I’m hoping this book catches on. It’s an exhortation, an attempt to light a fire where we badly need one. We’ve been sold a notion of freedom that is not what we deserve. “Freedom” has come to m...

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No, Trump's 'Unconditional Discharge' Sentence Does Not Mean He Was 'Exonerated' Trump's conviction on counts of felony in the Stormy Daniels case stands.

Trump's "unconditional discharge" sentence doesn't mean he was "exonerated," contrary to what Rep. Lauren Boebert and others claimed.

Cousin It!

Economics, or at least economic theory. Something I avoided for a very, very long time.

Doctor Moss's review of The Razor’s Edge 5/5: This is a book I’ve read more than just a couple of times. It’s a book about a character that its author says is a “good” person. Larry Darrell, he says, has the quality of “goodness.” The plot ...

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Your Sunrise Moment of Zen

Actually, if you want to read it, you can find it online -- it was published in Slate. Just a short story. Fast read.

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Today's Sun

Doctor Moss's review of Mr. Thursday 4/5: This is a little story about time travel. But not really. Maybe most stories about time travel aren’t really about time travel. This one’s about a lot of things. It’s about the choices we make a...

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Doctor Moss's review of The Road to Serfdom 4/5: Hayek is a difficult and controversial subject for review. He and Milton Friedman are heroes to advocates of free market economics, and they are villains to others. I’ll say a little more about c...

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3 Iconic Femmes Fatales of Film Noir (Intro) Femme fatales carve a special place into film noir. Somehow they flourished in an era of movies that were all about gritty, hardball…

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What My Dog Taught Me My dog started learning when I quit trying to train him. We both ended up learning, but it was what I learned from him that I’m still just…

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Doctor Moss's review of Trick or Truth? 4/5: This is a collection of papers written by physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers of science and mathematics in response to Eugene Wigner’s 1960 paper, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Math...

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