David Mouritsen
@davidmouritsen.bsky.social
I started out in physics/astrophysics and mathematics. And I strangely wound up a creative director at design, advertising, and web technology agencies. Obsessed with history.
The formidable Martin Wolf writes about the Trumpist “pluto-populism” — a term Wolf himself coined back in 2006 — evident in the appalling “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”:
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
June 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The formidable Martin Wolf writes about the Trumpist “pluto-populism” — a term Wolf himself coined back in 2006 — evident in the appalling “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”:
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
Liberation Day, budget, attacks on Powell …
“Analysis by Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo, suggested that US government credit default swap spreads — which reflect the cost of protecting a loan against default — are trading at levels similar to Greece and Italy.”
www.ft.com/content/9ca0...
“Analysis by Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo, suggested that US government credit default swap spreads — which reflect the cost of protecting a loan against default — are trading at levels similar to Greece and Italy.”
www.ft.com/content/9ca0...
June 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Liberation Day, budget, attacks on Powell …
“Analysis by Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo, suggested that US government credit default swap spreads — which reflect the cost of protecting a loan against default — are trading at levels similar to Greece and Italy.”
www.ft.com/content/9ca0...
“Analysis by Torsten Sløk, chief economist at Apollo, suggested that US government credit default swap spreads — which reflect the cost of protecting a loan against default — are trading at levels similar to Greece and Italy.”
www.ft.com/content/9ca0...
Before the recent federal election, 80% of Canadians surveyed by EKOS Research said Canada was headed in the wrong direction.
Since the election of Mark Carney’s Liberals, Canadians have quickly begun to feel better about the country’s direction.
ekospolitics.com/wp-content/u...
Since the election of Mark Carney’s Liberals, Canadians have quickly begun to feel better about the country’s direction.
ekospolitics.com/wp-content/u...
May 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Before the recent federal election, 80% of Canadians surveyed by EKOS Research said Canada was headed in the wrong direction.
Since the election of Mark Carney’s Liberals, Canadians have quickly begun to feel better about the country’s direction.
ekospolitics.com/wp-content/u...
Since the election of Mark Carney’s Liberals, Canadians have quickly begun to feel better about the country’s direction.
ekospolitics.com/wp-content/u...
The loss is deep. However, she has left us all with gifts. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, I strongly recommend her splendid book, published last year, “Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think.”
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May 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The loss is deep. However, she has left us all with gifts. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, I strongly recommend her splendid book, published last year, “Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think.”
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The loss is deep and painful. However, she has left us all with gifts. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, I strongly recommend her splendid book, published last year, “Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think.”
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May 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The loss is deep and painful. However, she has left us all with gifts. If you’re unfamiliar with her work, I strongly recommend her splendid book, published last year, “Wonderstruck: How Wonder & Awe Shape the Way We Think.”
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As Trump commits the United States to being the last of the buggy whip makers…
www.ft.com/content/f867...
www.ft.com/content/f867...
May 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As Trump commits the United States to being the last of the buggy whip makers…
www.ft.com/content/f867...
www.ft.com/content/f867...
Keeping errors and their propagation in mind, the numbers do seem to have shifted in the wrong direction.
To put this as succinctly as I can: WTF
To put this as succinctly as I can: WTF
May 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Keeping errors and their propagation in mind, the numbers do seem to have shifted in the wrong direction.
To put this as succinctly as I can: WTF
To put this as succinctly as I can: WTF
It’s also worth remembering — with respect due for all the contributions the United States made — the US arrived late to both wars and Americans did very little of the dying.
That aspect of Trump's post owes more to the selective storytelling of Hollywood movies than to history.
That aspect of Trump's post owes more to the selective storytelling of Hollywood movies than to history.
May 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It’s also worth remembering — with respect due for all the contributions the United States made — the US arrived late to both wars and Americans did very little of the dying.
That aspect of Trump's post owes more to the selective storytelling of Hollywood movies than to history.
That aspect of Trump's post owes more to the selective storytelling of Hollywood movies than to history.
The change may be painfully slow. But it’s steady.
April 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The change may be painfully slow. But it’s steady.
I bear no burden, whatsover, to compensate for your lack of research ability. But:
On 23 Jan 1995 there was a forgiving and rather sympathetic review in Maclean’s of Reeve’s performance at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Other reviews are easily found.
As a bonus, here's a promotional photo
On 23 Jan 1995 there was a forgiving and rather sympathetic review in Maclean’s of Reeve’s performance at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Other reviews are easily found.
As a bonus, here's a promotional photo
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I bear no burden, whatsover, to compensate for your lack of research ability. But:
On 23 Jan 1995 there was a forgiving and rather sympathetic review in Maclean’s of Reeve’s performance at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Other reviews are easily found.
As a bonus, here's a promotional photo
On 23 Jan 1995 there was a forgiving and rather sympathetic review in Maclean’s of Reeve’s performance at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.
Other reviews are easily found.
As a bonus, here's a promotional photo
There are more depressing numbers out there...
April 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There are more depressing numbers out there...
The photographer was Daniel Torok, who also took Trump's demoniacal inaugural photo
April 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The photographer was Daniel Torok, who also took Trump's demoniacal inaugural photo
The sickening response from the White House:
April 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The sickening response from the White House:
I'm unable to discern what can be blamed on stupidity and what on a combination of willful ignorance, psychopathy, malevolence, and a devotion to the sort of "Bullshit" Harry Frankfurt famously analyzed.
April 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm unable to discern what can be blamed on stupidity and what on a combination of willful ignorance, psychopathy, malevolence, and a devotion to the sort of "Bullshit" Harry Frankfurt famously analyzed.
So that's why the decline is so slow...
April 15, 2025 at 4:05 AM
So that's why the decline is so slow...
Surely, 46.7% of Americans can’t be relying on Fox for news...
April 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Surely, 46.7% of Americans can’t be relying on Fox for news...
Appalling. And profoundly tragic.
“The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.”
“The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.”
April 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Appalling. And profoundly tragic.
“The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.”
“The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 research projects at a breakneck pace, wiping out significant chunks of funding to entire scientific fields, finds a Nature analysis of the unprecedented cuts.”
Just what does Trump have to do for his net job approval rating to plunge?
April 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just what does Trump have to do for his net job approval rating to plunge?