the Daily Whale - archive 2015

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2015

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As the year begins, the world is in a more parlous state than it’s seen for decades. In other words, if you’re the future King of the World like me, things are about perfect.


	January	February	March
1	2014 in review	shallow depths	declaration of war
2	stories of the year	spy potato	Korean War
3	naked power 1	dissonant divergence	overcommitment
4	naked power 2	entitlement	role muddle
5	naked power 3	literally significant	Barnes and Noble
6	naked power 4	Little Bird	it means business
7	naked power 5	fork in the road	can’t talk about it
8	naked power 6	illiceracy	breaking news
9	naked power 7	acetic acid	cautious, bold
10	Charlie Hebdo 1	announcements	net neutrality
11	Charlie Hebdo 2	holy	full foolishness
12	the one you hate	lived long enough	awful performance
13	worth fighting for	character faults	see things as they are
14	total war	loosening the skies	achieve the impossible
15	stress	Unitarian exorcist	ways to think
16	flaming laser sharks	hybrid warfare	constitution
17	born without ID	Sphere of Interest	law of rules
18	artless museum	they don’t make them	fault preservation
19	speculative dates	smearleaders	slavery fighters
20	quality	being difficult	cutting edge
21	code reuse	what you practice	Netan the Yahoo
22	plagiarism	giving up	granted agency quiz
23	intimidation	international order	hype free
24	no tragedy	has a past	human nature
25	facing the facts	lunch food product quiz	love
26	animals exist	in your heart	be a pundit
27	failed to learn	Silk Road Economic Belt	what you wish for
28	your call is important	jumping to conclusions	being there
29	mountain of reason		human exceptionalism 1
30	omniscient		human exceptionalism 2
31	F-35		human exceptionalism 3

	April	May	June
1	can seeming be	self-interest	South China Sea
2	GitHub	UK election	stories and sides
3	safe distance	views expressed	emotion wins 1
4	tip	check the weather	emotion wins 2
5	peace and prosperity	the new normal	emotion wins 3
6	trust no one quiz	offend people	emotion wins 4
7	ivory tower	new world order	emotion wins 5
8	form expectations	raccoons	mistakes of omission
9	wishful thinking	irreversible	brilliant answer
10	life in the universe 1	guinea pig	what you are good at
11	life in the universe 2	little note nor long remember	money and honey
12	life in the universe 3	Earth quiz	happily ever after
13	life in the universe 4	risk free	game theory attitude
14	good argument	soldiers over citizens	and all I got
15	first-rate intelligence	Stockholm Syndrome	everything works out
16	fungi against piracy	incompetence and ignorance	the bounder
17	belong to a club	think you understand	federal I.T.
18	candidacy for candidacy	thought you understood	death of convenience
19	don’t panic	separation of powers 1	Dahala Khagrabari
20	centipede	separation of powers 2	misunderstandings
21	Rorschach test	separation of powers 3	immigration control 1
22	suicide watch	separation of powers 4	immigration control 2
23	cover or cover up	separation of powers 5	immigration control 3
24	90% of life	love thy neighbor	immigration control 4
25	dead bureaucracy	dentist	immigration control 5
26	patent anything	RAID	equivocation
27	spy agency slogans	airhead	lack of information
28	tech giant slogans	free	what to forget
29	Maersk Tigris	limited time only	space versus time
30	moral fiber	footloose	defeats the purpose
31		600 pound gorilla

	July	August	September
1	unconventional war	accept a bull quiz	Jackson Hole
2	lawyers and trust	shortsightedness	empty space
3	mediocrity	Jane Austen	Lara Croft 1
4	Us Versus Them	a little slow	Lara Croft 2
5	learn from mistakes	price of gold	daybreak
6	Game Over	face the facts	zombie
7	vasty deep	envy your success	promotion 1
8	cracking a joke	interstellar imperialists	promotion 2
9	throwing caution	unpredictability	promotion 3
10	autonomous weapons 1	habitable zone 1	asset quiz
11	autonomous weapons 2	habitable zone 2	IN CASE OF FIRE
12	autonomous weapons 3	habitable zone 3	split-brain patient
13	autonomous weapons 4	safe haven Germany	if you understand
14	name on Pluto	last frontier	spots on Ceres
15	planet definitions	currency war	contractor
16	invest your problems	fail and bail	overgeneralization
17	Angela Merkel	S.J. Perelman	Ahmed Mohamed 1
18	emotion and truth	embers	Ahmed Mohamed 2
19	dismal science	one city	Ahmed Mohamed 3
20	names as cover	global conspiracy	Ahmed Mohamed 4
21	off script	autochthon bloom	Ahmed Mohamed 5
22	push poll quiz	history	a million refugees
23	heaven	Goldibear	safety and space colonization
24	strategy	reserve	apartment C-4
25	thinking is cheaper	marriage roles	Room 13
26	Earth 2.0 1	had I but known	Mideast refugees
27	Earth 2.0 2	sky may fall	Volkswagen 1
28	best practice	meritocracy	Volkswagen 2
29	good practice	no practice	disgraced
30	inferior frontal gyrus	Rimbaud	U.S.-China cyber agreement
31	the inevitable	pointing mortar

	October	November	December
1	spin cycle	knew/didn’t know	have just one
2	hearing voices	LCS	computational complexity
3	gigantopithecus	cloudlessness	obviousness
4	conclusions, consequences	A2/AD	accept reality
5	opportunity crisis	Coast Guard	entropy
6	Syria quagmire	Eponymous	Paris climate talks
7	Smokey Bear	Astaire, Adair	Bridge of No Return
8	Volkswagen Bug	prove a theory	learn better
9	accomplicement	torte	old and cantankerous
10	I love you	Unalaska	don’t get it
11	contradict myself	wrap-around smile	speech styles
12	smartphone	Ignorance Awareness Day	wins an election
13	silver lining	win without fighting	Dung Beetle
14	hero heron	the impossible	former customers
15	supernova	correct taste	the more you know
16	unexpected error	deification	longer yesterday
17	rogue engineers	fit for CEO	distrust strangers
18	do anything well	good frogs	Syrian Civil War
19	finance and religion	France at war	coathanger, cliffhanger
20	bigger eyes	ingroup/outgroup	fighting and killing
21	dire leeks	political sense	the detective
22	untold hardships	Volkswagen admits	make a difference
23	every plan	institutionalized theory	without lying
24	worry faster	works better	defeatism
25	journalism-speak	ideology 1	tradition
26	what to want	ideology 2	egghead hatred
27	110% of capacity	proxy war	character
28	counting the beans	self-identification	space age
29	corpus callosum	unwind	anyone on Earth
30	Earth	1965	candidate quiz
31	Halloween		New Year’s resolution