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I just saw her play in a small venue in Richmond. She blew the crowd away. She is a powerful, formidable presence. Wow.

Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:02 AM

2

I'm going to win one next year. My plan is to go around announcing my IQ in bars that look like places MacArthur sends his spies.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:03 AM

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I can't shake the feeling that they must have something to do with General MacArthur, which is frankly disturbing when you think about the kind of stuff he got up to.

Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:08 AM

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I believe it's actually a mail-order catalog fortune.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:09 AM

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Wikipedia says insurance. Anyway, it's not built on money stolen from captured PVA members.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:24 AM

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Just wondering how many of them are younger than I am. Or older. I still have a shot.

Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:39 AM

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Rhiannon Giddens! Good for her.

Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 7:14 AM

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What heartening news in a shitty week. And yes, always nice to recall John MacArthur making his fortune by refusing to pay insurance claims. I should dig up the account I read...

Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 7:24 AM

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Here is an intersting paper by the math honoree. Deals with identifying a (usefully characterized) subset of high-dimensional problems with relatively sparse measurements that are nevertheless statistically tractable.

Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 7:52 AM

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Oh, you lost again.

ON THE INTERNET, NOBODY KNOWS YOUR NOT NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY.

Posted by: OPINIONATED DOG | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 7:56 AM

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Heh.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 7:58 AM

12

I think the typo makes it better.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 8:00 AM

13

The collective selection is pointed commentary, wouldn't you say? Social organizing, history of segregation, cybercrime, building community, social networks.

Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 8:48 AM

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Yes, I had the same thought, but couldn't think of a way to make it without seeming to diminish how deserving any one of them might be.

Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 9:34 AM

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It's kind of fascinating that you would see that as diminishing rather than augmenting desert... not sure the neutral background exists, you know? The whole thing makes me really happy. Tyshawn Sorey!

Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 9:42 AM

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Yea, what is up with that!?? Why aren't there any lawyers??

Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 9:52 AM

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Why would there be any lawyers? Don't get me wrong, they provide a useful service - like sanitation engineers.

Posted by: | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 4:32 PM

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Lawyers, sanitation engineers, and the animators who made Kevin Bacon's invisible penis be wreathed in smoke for Hollow Man.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 4:42 PM

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Maybe I lost this one, but I did win Time Magazine Person of the year in 2006

Posted by: unimaginative | Link to this comment | 10-11-17 6:18 PM