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At least this posting has no Sam Harris content. Oh, wait, I just added some Sam Harris content! Should I add a trigger warning? Ni!
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[Trigger Warning: spiders]
At least this posting has no Sam Harris content. Oh, wait, I just added some Sam Harris content! Should I add a trigger warning? Ni!
Normally, I don’t like bourgeois pursuits like weeding. I feel that plants should Do Their Thing and I mostly try to hold the line at keeping them from growing over the top of my house. [Read more…]
The problem with the space station (it was leaking air) has been identified. From there, the story gets bizzare. [guard]
They will probably go extinct in my lifetime. But they’ll always have food waiting for them here at Bellwether Farm, if they manage to get here.
Why is nobody asking “is this Russian disinformation?”
Because that would be the proverbial multi-dimensional chess-playing: give your target a phantom to chase and get everyone stabbing eachother in the back. Pass out the ice-picks, it’s battle royale!
This is one of my favorite jokes; I think of it as “zen-like” and “koan-like” – except it has one problem: it’s a “blonde” joke.
The Bird Committee is having a meeting under my kitchen window.
Fake news. So what? Doesn’t everyone realize that all news is fake to some degree or another? Yet, we are supposed to get excited about it, because it is the reigning popular explanation for the spectacular failure of the American political system.
These are the photographs of the great Lewis Hine, who resorted to a number of subterfuges to be able to get cameras into the factories.
Computer security is a new(ish) field, so we get to make up names for things. That’s an advantage and a disadvantage – it means that marketing people can come up with new-sounding names for old stuff, and sometimes customers get all excited and buy it because it sounds so new!