Monthly Roundup #42: May 2026
At least we probably won’t have another pandemic. And we still have a partial Jones Act waiver. For now. Small victories. Table of Contents Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta. Bad News. Predictions Can Be Easy Even About The Future. Good Advice. The Efficient Market Hypothesis Is False. There Are Four Skills. While I Cannot Condone This. Good News, Everyone. For Your Entertainment. Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game. The Spire Sleeps And So Shall I. I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars. Government Working. Jones Act Watch. Technology Advances. I Said Woo Hoo. Variously Effective Altruism. The Lighter Side. Hanta Hanta I Don’t Wanta We have learned so much less than nothing from Covid. We’re actively stupider. It’s 2026, and here we are again, lying about the virus because we are worried that people exposed to it or from the wrong place might face stigma otherwise. Envidreamz: A local news story highlights passengers on the hantavirus stricken MV Hondius cruise ship who are more worried about facing stigma and rejection back home than the virus itself. The piece quotes passengers fearing social media backlash, portrays their onboard life as calm with masks and birdwatching, and leans heavily on WHO experts downplaying human to human transmission while stressing it’s nothing like Covid. Is anyone else getting these local news articles trying to sympathize with the passengers on the ship because they fear the stigma that nobody wants to be around them when they go home? And then further minimizing this virus saying it’s not easily transmissible human to human and basically no big deal? Wtf? None of this is even true. Meanwhile, the other side is already also out in force and stupidity, to say in advance that no one is going to trust anything anyone says, or follow any orders, and if they say anything is happening it is fake, that if it does happen it will be because of the Covid vaccine, and I’ve even seen a literal claim that one should take Ivermectin. The CDC is nowher