Charles Dickens’ actual desk in the Charles Dickens Museum. Adding that to the list for my next trip to London. (h/t The Londonist)
Quote: “Utility-scale solar generation in the United States is up by 46% in the first 70 days of 2025.” (Fix the News)
Here’s the report, which you can bookmark and read and share wherever and whenever you want to however many times you want to.
(h/t Alaska Public Media)
Eek. (h/t Laughing Squid)
Quote: “This essay is going to lay out the remarkable parallels between today’s America and the nation during each of its previous periods of fundamental reinvention. It will compare our pivot year of 2025 to the previous pivot year of 1945 and the end of World-War II, and then to the end of the American Civil War in 1865, exactly 80 years prior. It will then go back another 80 years to 1785, just after the Revolutionary War as the founders were gearing up for the Constitutional Convention.” Subscribe to Peter Leyden’s Substack here.
I love history. (h/t 1440)
Quote for the day:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. –Mark Twain
Outro…
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I’ve read a couple of books by the authors who “discovered” the 80 year cycle of change. And what happens when they start going into detail about the four different changes that create that cycle, is that they ended up explaining how they how the cycles all had exceptions, and this one was longer and that one started later due to *reasons*. There turned out to be more exceptions than there was conformity to their theories. Still, it was interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-History-Americas-Rendezvous-ebook/dp/B001RKFU4I
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith.
Still, as you say, interesting. I’m subscribed to Paul Krugman’s Substack. He writes about economics in a way that I can (mostly) understand the subject.