David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025For sure. Maybe someone can chime in with an actual historian. All I have on my shelf is this Playfair one from 1783, taken from Tufte’s discussions on the origins of graphs: 100
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 28/02/2025This still feels like the motive for much of Trump 1st month activity (tariffs, doge): change budget by $2trillion, make the 2018 tax cuts permanent - otherwise, they expire this year. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cut... 120
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 07/10/2024Rare asperitas clouds over Ottawa in the late afternoon 000
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 29/10/2023Fascinating globe op-ed on the history of Canadian R&D funding. The near-total absence of industry takeup of grads… feels very familiar and real. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... 000
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Some sources do claim he really is a native Esperanto speaker, but that’s disputed by the memoir’s translator. 010
David Pritchard @drpritch.bsky.social · 26/10/2023Oh John Hodgman, your fake trivia is funny! A native Esperanto speaker! As if! Wait… his father really did publish his Holocaust memoirs in Esperanto…!? 110