2021 archive
Maskless Marauders, the “Tell” Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christian Miller reports on research that suggests how persons wear masks in these viral times sheds light on their character. A bit; follow the link for details.
That, at least, is what the economist Yossef Tobol at the Jerusalem College of Technology and his colleagues found in a recent study published in the journal Economic Letters.
So Much Winning . . . . 0
PoliticalProf does the math.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu comments on Iowa legistors’ attempts to keep information from the New York Times’ 1619 Project out of public schools. She finds that effort particularly disheartening because the project was led by a black woman from Iowa.
A snippet:
One more time, heaven forbid that American students learn what life was really like in ye olde South.
Maskless Marauders, Rand Gestures Dept. 0
Rand Paul delivers a stream of gobbledy-goop and demonstrably false assertions to justify just having his own way.
The stupid. It burns.
Video via C&L.
QOTD 0
Immanuel Kant:
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
(Rescheduled after having been improperly scheduled.)
Geeking Out 0
Virtual machine of Slackware –Current running in VirtualBox on Magiea v. 7 using the Plasma desktop.
Vaccine Nation 0
Harry Shearer interviews Matt Stoller about how America’s monopolistic health care industry (and it’s an industry, not a system) gives you the business, with a focus on the roll-out (stagger-out might be a more appropriate term) of the coronavirus vaccines.
This is a must listen.
All the News that Fits . . . 0
. . . and none that doesn’t.
The Vice of the Turtle 0
Meanwhile, Republicans decide that they just can’t bring themselves to uncross the Rubicon that they crossed five years ago..
The Disinformation Superhighway, Short Attention Span Theatre Dept. 0
One man saw it coming.
He even foresaw “influencers.”
An excerpt from Charlie Warzel’s article about him in last Sunday’s New York Times (emphasis added):
In June 2006, when Facebook was still months from launching its News Feed, Mr. Goldhaber predicted the grueling personal effects of a life mediated by technologies that feed on our attention and reward those best able to command it. “In an attention economy, one is never not on, at least when one is awake, since one is nearly always paying, getting or seeking attention.”
Parler Talk 0
A New Jersey school board member didn’t know that insults could be, well, insulting.
QOTD 0
Voltaire:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Afterthought:
Q. E. D.
In the Face of the Evidence in Their Face 0
Seth sums it up.