Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet

Silver knew what he was doing.

This is part of a bigger effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 presidential election. Historians will not have access to these records.

Edit: Silver made sense of the data in 2020 and losing his analysis will make it even harder to sort out what happened.

Step Two is to flood the historical record with alternative data and analysis.

>BTW, I approached ABC about buying back the former FiveThirtyEight IP*, and they said they wouldn’t sell at any price because I’d criticized their management of the brand. Costing Disney shareholders $$ b/c of their vindictiveness.

>* I own the models but the trademarks, etc.

>[https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/2055353919585325333](https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/2055353919585325333)

If Silver is correct, then it’s a grudge match.

Orwellian.

What will history do without the quasi statistical political analysis of a self loathing baseball fan?!

Maybe people are starting to realize that what numerous highly respected people from various backgrounds and eras said was true: when it comes to “social” things, the data can explain what happened but it will never help to predict what will happen. Confusing the two, and making claims about what will happen is almost sure to fuck everything up because if there’s one thing that is almost unchanged throughout all human history, it’s that humans do not like being told what they are going to do and we will actively harm ourselves and those around us to prove that prediction wrong. You can disagree, but you’re wrong

edit: that being said

https://www.natesilver.net/p/democrats-are-not-ok-with-boomers

https://www.natesilver.net/p/a-random-number-generator-determined

God we’re so fucked