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Speaking of facts…
There is a style of mental activity (I hesitate to call it “thought”) that seems obviously to be in the ascendance lately. It features espousing a position, opinion, or belief that’s easily demonstrated to be false — that is, in opposition to what anyone can perceive — and yet “doubling down” on that nonsense even… Continue reading
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Best quote from a republic ever
Mike Johnson, the speaker of the house and a leader in the republic party, just drooled this out:“Don’t get lost in the facts.” The great aspiration of the US has always been that people would be rational, honest actors. That’s clearly gone, at least among the republics. Continue reading
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A bill of goods
“We’ve been sold a bill of goods in this country that we’re divided. We’re divided by gender, we’re divided by race, we’re divided by who we love, we’re divided by where we worship or whether we worship at all. And now they’re trying to tell us that we’re divided by Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Let… Continue reading
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Symiliptic report tober 28
The many discussions and thoughts that went into creating the sixth republic often involved citizenship. Many of us had concluded that it was citizenship that most contributed to the fall of the fourth republic. The idea of citizenship, and how it was assumed to be a thing that was conferred either by birth or by… Continue reading
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Navigation versus implementation
Years ago I designed mobile phone software. At the time, phones were just beginning to be able to connect to the internet, so we had a web browser. Since the platform was a phone, it made sense to us to provide a way to automatically dial a phone number you found on a web page.… Continue reading
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Two approaches
There are (at least) two general approaches to creating something technically new. At least I think there are. One is externally oriented. The creator notices or is given a situation or problem that somebody else experiences, and the creator tries to come up with a technical solution. The other is internally oriented. The creator finds… Continue reading
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Tiny Tim
Apple employs over 160,000 people, and like any enormous collection of humans, the group embodies a lot of variation. Even though they’re a group in the sense that they share an employer, they are not at all a group in other senses. They don’t all live in the same area. They don’t all agree on… Continue reading
About Me
I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer (among other things) located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. No surprise, she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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