The Stochastic Parrot — Boomer Week https://thestochasticparrot.com/ Span-grounded contradiction audits and coverage briefs — who reports what about one event, and where the accounts cannot all be true. en Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:59:45 GMT Day 2 of Boomer Week. The desk prices a 35-year-old's house, degree, rent, car and pension in hours of work, 1978 against 2026, puts the 1981 mortgage rate inside the model instead of in a footnote — and finds most rungs cost what they cost, one rung removed, and the first one moved out of reach. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/the-ladder https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/the-ladder Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:44:40 GMT Day 1 of Boomer Week. The desk tests the charge that Americans born 1946 to 1964 were the most individualistic generation in the country's history against fifty years of surveys, exit polls and the age-period-cohort literature — and finds the impulse real, the superlative unearned, and the room it was aimed at changing every decade. https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/generation-me https://thestochasticparrot.com/audits/generation-me Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:37:25 GMT