Well the good news is that a lot of people have a much deeper understanding of how our parliamentary democracy functions than they did yesterday.
Serfing USA
Jeremiah Owyang : Chances are, you’re probably a serf.:
To modernize the last word of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin’s famed quote; “In antiquity, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called users.”
I’m taking a new approach to link posts on One Man & His Blog. What do you think?
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This is a massive dose of nostalgia - I was on a lot of these networks. But, thankfully, not all:
This is a lovely story, beautifully drawn.
The art of pseudo-science in politics
This sums up how many articles and books cloak nonsense claims in a thin skin of scientific respectability:
Inconvenient Facts claims, over and over, to be based in science and emphasizes the importance of the scientific method; however, the author does not, himself, use the scientific method in his own analysis. There are no references to any peer-reviewed journal articles by Wrightstone himself. Many of his “inconvenient facts” are non-controversial statements. In fact, most of them are actually true. It’s the conclusions that he draws from the “facts” that are not supported by peer-reviewed journal papers — they’re just his own misleading opinions.
Opinion is not expertise. And opinion can be wrong.
A wee update on life, work and blog.
Nothing alarming, just trying to figure out how to avoid burning out again.
So, the reason for my silence here over the last couple of weeks was that I was holidaying in a nearly bandwidth-free place.
And it was lovely. Just taking a first pass through the photos now.
Well, this is depressing - but painfully resonant. Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Blimey - a story about Instagram that’s actually positive: A woman documents the clothes her boyfriend ‘hates’ on Instagram
Why are people risking their lives to take the perfect selfie? (Spoiler; it’s not about the selfies…)