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Catholicism by Choice An interest of mine at several points previously, that "wiser" people - writers, thinkers - have often chosen later in life to join the Catholic church, having previously been Anglican / protestant or atheistic. Part of my respect for theology alongside secular science, and…

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Autistic as an adjective? I have 4 or 5 on my timeline who are either self-confessed "on the spectrum" or are living with a family member with Autism or Asperger's. It's a neurodiverse issue that requires care to varying degrees for the individual. No doubt. I do care. But, I've been using the…

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PT/DE 8k ton freighter SOLONG drove at full speed straight into the side of anchored US/DK 30k ton tanker STENA IMMACULATE three hours ago of the coast of England. Solong had been on a straight course for 9h, holding 16 knots in fair weather. Around the tanker were 8 other large vessels, anchored.

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Pretty awful for Trump and others to exploit this lie.

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The Dysmemic / Memetic Problem ... bad / easy answers always prevail over good / hard / complex ones in the "marketplace" of ideas (without a great deal of effort to the contrary). #Dysmemics

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Watching an unfettered Donald Trump these last six weeks running our country like his family business makes it very easy to understand why he bankrupted six companies

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Reminder: A kid had to die for this moron to walk back on years of anti-vax nonsense

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More on “More Than Science” Is there "more than science" (1) that is valuable to understanding & engaging in content & processes in a world seen in terms of (2) systems? (Cybernetics, Complexity, OR/Community-OR, Systems-Thinking, you name it, and all the specific theories, methods and processes…

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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The Rotting of the Conservative Mind: the Tory party bends the knee to Donald Trump. A disgrace and one for which they deserve to be judged. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...

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Happy Publication Day to me! 🎉😱🥹🧿 Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History is officially out! It’s a history of the region through objects found in an ancient museum in Princess Ennigaldi-Nanna’s palace, and I hope you all like it 💛 lnk.to/BetweenTwoRi...

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New books dance! 😊 Thanks to @stevenstrogatz.com @around.com @emilyherring.bsky.social and Sarah Bakewell fro writing them!

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Private Eye spot on as usual:

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Hate Speech – Really? This is just a holding post for what needs to be a longer piece, but there are a whole load of live questions in early 2025 about what kinds of speech are inappropriate - and legal definitions of various "hate-speech" related ideas - blasphemy, islamophobia, transphobia,…

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This isn't Trump, as such, is it? It's the far right grifters he's invited into his company and who are freelancing in his name. Which of course begs many questions.

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Sabine is angrier than ever - something rotten in the state of science? www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFU...

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There are now few pleasant ways out of this. American politicians need to find one of those ways.

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Tucci as Foucault obviously

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Borders vs Business There's a sense from the romantic support for supra-national efforts like EU, NATO, UN etc, that nations, national borders are a hinderance to freedoms - of (movement of) people (and capital). Imagine, as Lennon would say. (If only - see Jonathan Haidt, and notice this is a…

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Truly excellent, content-packed 2 hours. Beautifully produced too, but zero-fluff. Recommended. Ukraine and hopes of NATO / EU memberships may be topical - BUT - understand how complex, deep, and engrained are national, ethnic, religious, resource and economic conflict on Europe's eastern border.

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"Yes"

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Getting to that Lighthouse "The complex tensions of family life." said Margaret Drabble, but like the "unhappy family" of Anna Karenina, Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse", the family relationships are just the setting for musings about human roles in the world more widely. Set before and after…

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ISSS DC-2024 – Tyranny of the Explicit This is a summary of my ISSS Workshop in Washington in June 2024. “Divided by a Common Language - or the Tyranny of the Explicit” Workshop by Ian Glendinning ISSS 68th Annual Meeting, Washington DC 2024 4:30pm to 6:00pm, Day 2, Tuesday 11th June 2024 =====…

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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Apollonian vs Dionysian A while since I read my Nietzsche, but as I consolidate my writing I'm noting reminders in everyday life. Articulating the real science / non-science issue remains pretty central to a large part of the problem statement, still proving tricky in a world that increasingly…

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Nicola Guarino and Ontologies What with literal/physical (ontic) and modelling/linguistic (epistemic/semantic) ontologies having come to the fore recently, when I noticed a name I recognised in the long-running [ontolog-forum] I paused to check the intersection. It was back in 2002/2004 I last…

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Well, well, well

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Why would the NSF comply with this nonsense? Even if it were legal and the White House actually had these powers, they should still refuse.

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East vs West in Thinking Might not be obvious, but this is the next in a series of "dialogues" with Dave Snowden. An example of the "dichotomies" Dave warns against. The ongoing dichotomies dialogue. The recent East-West example. Every choice of word is a binary chop, this not that. And however…

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Ontic Vagueness The concept of "Ontic Vagueness" caused my ears to prick-up when Adam Weisberg shared a link, asking for review comments on Mastodon a week ago: Ontic Vagueness - The Argument From Freedom Adam Weisberg - January 2025 The idea that things are much less well-defined than their…

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Bookmarking Post Some things I'm reading and reviewing, but squeezed for time, so just bookmarking here: Tom Clark, making a defence of Determinism. My position (after Dennett) is that the problem is not that physical science is determinist, but that people interpret that fact too narrowly and…

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The Future of the RPA www.robertpirsig.org/the-future-o... The Robert Pirsig Association (RPA) is asking for input from Pirsig fans and scholars alike to help chart our course for 2025 and beyond for our Strategic Planning Sessions on Sat/Sun February 8-9th. #ZMM #MoQ #RPA

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The law and order dude is about to pardon those who assaulted the police. Collectively more than 40 rioters attacked me that day.

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In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves other people’s interests - not yours.

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what looney tunes needs is a prequel where bugs bunny confirms elmer fudd & marvin the martian are not on the spectrum before Targeting them

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Woke and Anti-Woke What exactly is woke? (And more to the point, why are some people anti-woke enough to label others as woke? A pox on both their houses I say.) Woke is being too focussed on selected diverse minority needs to the detriment of wider public needs. Anti-Woke is being too focussed on…

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Capra met Bateson Two gaps in my reading when it comes to my "Psybernetic" Systems Thinking subject matter, Fritjof Capra and Gregory Bateson. Bateson was obviously involved in post-WWII "Macy" developments in Cybernetics, but I skipped reading him so far thanks to his unpromising (to me)…

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