I've went on Luddite rants before, but a NextGov article titled Most Scientific Research Data from the 1990s is Lost Forever settles in my mind the impending technoclasm will erase us from history.As a Maître Jaques, I amateurishly dabble in many fields, but have not the skill to bountifully harvest from any of them. But … Continue reading Another reason why we won’t exist in future history
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Goat herd’s joy
I've posted on multiple occasions[1] of my dream job as a goat herder, so you can imagine my delight when I found this comic today. © xkcd ~~~[1] Ah, my daydreams of goat herding:http://www.jeremyblevins.com/2013/09/nunya.htmlhttp://www.jeremyblevins.com/2012/09/my-dream-job.htmlhttp://www.jeremyblevins.com/2012/06/my-next-career-as-pygmy-goat-farmer.html
Common Risks
Sharing a post by Bruce Schneier: Jared Diamond on Common Risks: Jared Diamond has an op-ed in the New York Times where he talks about how we overestimate rare risks and underestimate common ones. Nothing new here -- I and others have written about this sort of thing extensively -- but he says that this … Continue reading Common Risks
Luddism?
Comic for January 31, 2013:
In celebration of the Mayan ‘Apocalypse’
There has been lots of "news" about the non-event that is occurring today. I mean this sarcastically, but it's sort of nice for it to be someone else's beliefs that are being trashed by the media for a change. Even if we are basing what we think we know on our modern interpretations of a … Continue reading In celebration of the Mayan ‘Apocalypse’
