Fight fear with data. Fight anger with gratitude. Every day do something that won’t compute.
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so i didn't plan on writing this at any point in my life, but here is a thread about toilets in the library of babel.
there is an interesting (intentional?) set of voids and paradoxes in "The Library of Babel" related to metabolism.
latrines or bathrooms are mentioned:
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Every plan, in order to have a decent chance at being accomplished, needs 5 things:
1 Positive definition of success
2 Owner
3 Timeline
4 Budget
5 Next physical action
Without any of these, it's not a plan, it's a wish. Wishes sometimes come true! But plans are more reliable.
David Saff retweeted
Untitled (1977)
Mixed-media work by Chicago artist and poet Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915-2010)
David Saff retweeted
The last sports strip in "Peanuts" (from January 2, 2000) was about football. A little more than a month after it was published, Schulz would pass away, and I've always considered this one to be about mortality, about the end drawing near.
David Saff retweeted
In 1968, they made the mistake of inviting Ivan Illich to speak to a gathering of American students preparing to do volunteer work in Latin America.
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Graph of the day: in social science, we can usually only dream of correlations as strong as this one: the negative relationship between % residents who can work from home and neighbourhood deprivation. From
bit.ly/3armeFv @U_Inequalities @spatial_network
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Let's give our vocal support to the hard working editors & reporters at the @BostonGlobe. They deserve a fair contract.
New at Media Nation: @BostonGlobe employees union launches publicity campaign as negotiations drag on. dankennedy.net/2021/01/26/gl…
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There's a disconnect around the concept of "consensus" in science. People say: science would never advance if we trusted consensus.
The point is: consensus is the best info experts have. If you're outside the field, take it. Because WITHIN the field, we challenge it constantly.
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For me, these 3 Qs have been productive:
1) What do you think I think?
2) Why do you think I think that?
3) How do you square that w/ everything else you know about me?
David Saff retweeted
Popping back on briefly to share some insights on media consumption, spread of conspiracy theories, & epistemelogical divides.
