Showing posts with label ghost in the machine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghost in the machine. Show all posts
Friday, January 2, 2015

Nerd Intersectionality

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Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be. The child seems happy all the time to the adult, because the adult knows that the child is untou...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Shine On, You Crazy Diamond

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Claudio: “Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?” Benedick: “I noted her not; but I looked on her.” Claudio: “Is...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Where Angels Fear to Tread

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“Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.” — Raiders of the Lost Ark For a rapacious and unapologetic facilitator of the accumulation and r...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

A Photograph, Not a Circuit Diagram

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Except in the simplest cases, one cannot expect observation alone to reveal the effect of the use of an aspect of economics. One cannot ass...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Laughing Policeman

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A society that admires its shock troops had better be bloody careful about where it’s going. — John le Carré, A Perfect Spy This picture...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

All Together Now

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“Do you mean, sir, that these birds are cannibals?” “That’s an odd question, young Master,” the banker said. “I merely said the birds dri...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Methinks Thou Dost Protest Too Much

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Attentive Readers will realize that I have used my...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Why Oh Why Didn't I Take the Blue Pill?

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Cypher: "You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that i...
Friday, October 1, 2010

The Relief of Distance

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After all, Facebook, like Zuckerberg, is a paradox: a Web site that celebrates the aura of intimacy while providing the relief of distance, ...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Thank You for Smoking

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Ἔρος δηὖτέ μ' ὀ λυσιμέλης δόνει, γλυκύπικρον ἀμάχανον ὄρπετον Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fig...