"Crypto is gambling, and you should never gamble more than you can afford to lose, right? So the only people who held onto their bitcoin when it was worth $100,000 dollars were:* People who could afford to lose $100,000 * People who couldn’t afford to lose it and were therefore making a very, very stupid … Continue reading Is/Ought Fallacy: Exhibit A
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JAQing Off, Concerns, Memes & Related
High score! Are you just asking questions, a.k.a., JAQing off? Do you have concerns about X? Do you use rote ideas and thinking to communicate? For example, are you invested in cryptocurrencies and like to use jargon like hodl, hopium, and so forth? Or, do you like to follow "influencers" who spend time explaining things … Continue reading JAQing Off, Concerns, Memes & Related
Live Long & Prosper
"Behavioral scientists have spent a lot of time studying what makes us happy (and what doesn’t). We know happiness can predict health and longevity, and happiness scales can be used to measure social progress and the success of public policies. But happiness isn’t something that just happens to you. Everyone has the power to make … Continue reading Live Long & Prosper
Villeneuve’s Dune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g18jFHCLXk "Empire's Ben Travis, who gave another five-star review, said that for fans of the Dune books, the latest and best film adaptation had been well worth the wait.He wrote: "For science-fiction devotees, especially those who have long-worshipped Frank Herbert's dense tome and waited decades for it to be brought to the screen in a … Continue reading Villeneuve’s Dune
The Four Reading Levels
Elementary: What does the text say? Literacy.Inspectual: What is this article/book about? Superficial, skimming.Analytical: Is the information / argument good? Meaning, perspective and use.Synoptic: Comparative. Trying to incorporate multiple points of view into our own view. Nothing I want to quote from the article by Bruno Boksic on this topic. But, I thought it was … Continue reading The Four Reading Levels
Troll Taxonomies
"The internet doesn’t turn people into assholes so much as it acts as a massive megaphone for existing ones, according to work by researchers at Aarhus University.-Tom McCay, "Online Trolls Actually Just Assholes All the Time, Study Finds." Gizmodo. August 27, 2021. I think there is a troll gravity online, where the megaphones of a … Continue reading Troll Taxonomies
Planet of Cops
"The woke world is a world of snitches, informants, rats. Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance. Everybody is to be judged. Everyone is under suspicion. Everything you say is to be scoured, picked over, analyzed for any possible offense. Everyone’s a detective in the Division of … Continue reading Planet of Cops
Thoughtcrime: I Fought the LAWS and the LAWS Won
"Editor’s Note: Some links in this article lead to media sites and journals that are affiliated with the Iranian military. If access to such sites is prohibited by your employer’s policy, please do not click links in this article from a work computer."-Evan Omeed Lisman, "Iran's Bet on Autonomous Weapons." War on the Rocks. August … Continue reading Thoughtcrime: I Fought the LAWS and the LAWS Won
Confronting the Technological Society
"But as more and more activities and areas of life get absorbed in technique — in recent years perhaps most visibly through digital technologies shaping friendships, learning, buying and selling, travel, music, leisure, and much else — the possibilities of pushing back against it diminish. The lesson here is not that the particular technologies are … Continue reading Confronting the Technological Society
The United States, Pro-Life as Sickness
When visiting Brussels, Belgium, Engelhart speaks to Wim Distelmans, an oncologist and euthanasia proponent, about whether assisted death should be offered to more people in the United States. “It’s a developing country,” he tells her. “You shouldn’t try to implement a law of euthanasia in countries where there is no basic healthcare.” A reader wonders, … Continue reading The United States, Pro-Life as Sickness
We The People
https://www.twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1423097900339445760 Possibly the most American thing I've ever seen in my life. My only regret is I'll never be able to see it again for the first time.
Facebook Directs Your Eyes
"What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people … Continue reading Facebook Directs Your Eyes
…Stay A Little Longer
"As death draws near, I feel the same uncomfortable transition I experienced when I was a teenager at Brantwood Camp in Peterborough, New Hampshire, packing up to go home after a grand summer. I’m not sure what awaits me when I get home, but this has certainly been an exciting experience. I had a loving … Continue reading …Stay A Little Longer
Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee
"I think that what Tucker says much of the time is completely reprehensible and divorced from reality," Lemon said, "but he has a right to be in a space and not be accosted and not be ambushed by anyone."—Don Lemon, CNN anchor, quoted by Sarah Polus, "Don Lemon defends Tucker Carlson amid confrontation video." TheHill.com, … Continue reading Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee
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