John Arrington Woodward @Jawoodward@aleph.land
Film nerd and scholar. Professor of general Humanities. Have some knowledge of macroeconomics.
https://aleph.land/media/lpGKt3LIVM0yluBBg1g #Marx and Engels Monument covered with paper maché by artists #Berlin
Representative bodies that do not in any way understand the actual interests of their constituents are pointless. #campuspolitics
Yeah. I'll be a bit poorer when this drops. #radiohead
A bit on the backfire effect comic in the Oatmeal: I think one way of explaining a cause to the gut level, animalistic response to new information is that it enters the mind as new information and not fact. The faciticity of a fact is only proven through social processes. Searle (even though he is a womanizing ass) was pretty prescient with his concept of social reality-- it is a reality created in language.
https://plus.google.com/+JohnArringtonWoodward/posts/UjT8nLjwTL1
Unfortunately, #Mastodon does not yet have Donaeld the Unwieldy. https://twitter.com/donaeldunready/status/858951865089839104
Waiting...
#Soundgarden tonight. This will be a day to remember.
Today was a reminder that even very good decisions can be scuttled by bad rollouts. No one appreciates dictates without input, even if those dictates are in the end a net good.
I'd mentioned the concept of standardised content classifications, preferably based on the Library of Congress Classification System, a day or so back.
Today, Google announces "Topics" at Google+
Still in roll-out, claim is there are "hundreds" of topics.
h/t @gideonro
https://blog.google./products/google-plus/googleplus-topics/
At what point should one give up on a "conversation" in online forums? #G+ #SomeOneIsWrongOnTheInternet. Any suggestions for handling those contentious discussions are welcome.
Mastodons were all the rage 100,000 years ago in America. #science
its the year 2050. for 10 years your retinal implant has been blinking 12:00 because the company decided to stop supporting it
@gideonro I'm going to destroy your productivity for the next week:
http://historyofinformation.com
(But might increase it afterwards.)
(You're welcome.)
(The History of Information. 2 mya - present. 4,406 entries. 96 themes. San Francisco antiquarian bookseller. An amazingly awesome site.)
American journalists have no understanding of #history: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/french-election-sunday-marine-le-pen-macron-nationalism-1
In 2002, Chirac got only 19% of the vote, and the run off was against Marine LePen's father! This is not a Trump effect! America is not the center of the universe.
Looks like Mélenchon got 19.5% of the vote. Just short of the runoff. #france
