Friday, January 16, 2026

Friday Flotsam and Jetsam

Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.

A little little language nugget as we await the fall of the Islamic regime in Iran: today the word "polygraph" basically means lie detector test in many people's minds but the word originally was used to denote a machine that would copy a letter as it was being written. Thomas Jefferson was big into those sorts of machines.

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