Merriam-Webster Definition of covnversation 1 a (1) : oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas "... we had talk enough but no conversation; there was nothing discussed." - Samuel Johnson (2) : an instance of such exchange : TALK > a quiet conversation b : an informal discussion of an issue by representatives of governments, institutions, or groups > conversations among the senators c : an exchange similar to conversation > We had a conversation by email.

I’m not convinced that what you had was a conversation. (In particular, did it involve an exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas? Or was it instead an interaction with an electronic mimic?)

Circulacoes: Artérias mais importantes (23 letras-23 artérias) Veias mais importantes (20 letras-20 veias)

Paulo do Cantos

Circulaçōes

cantosverso.org/item/o-homem...

1930 - 1936?

Museu Do Design E Da Moda, Lisbon

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing humans the other 364 days of the year are not fools’ days.

It’s been covered by a bunch of people, including Pete Seeger.

The lyrics I posted first are the ones Joni Mitchell used in her version.

Jackson Browne - Crow on the Cradle Lyrics & Meaning Crow on the Cradle by Jackson Browne. Crow on the Cradle jackson Browne’s “Crow on the Cradle” carries an unsettling tone, blending nursery rhyme cadence w... Full lyrics & meaning on SongLyrics.

Oops, I just realized that the lyrics to this version are the ones Jackson Browne used in his version: www.songlyrics.com/jackson-brow...

The Crow on the Cradle YouTube video by Lady Maisery - Topic

In this time of senseless warfare, here’s a very moving song.

The Crow on the Cradle, performed by Lady Maisery youtu.be/dOoJ-mMy8x0?...

The song was written by Sydney Carter. Here are the lyrics, which are really worth reading:
unionsong.com/u115.html

"One of the most heartbreaking examples of nonverbal communication to emerge from Iran.
I cannot call this a mere propaganda piece. It is the unbearable truth, laid bare through the profound art of cinematography and animation." #MinabSchool
t.me/politblogme/22

Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it. I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency.

This part is sharp and important: bureaucracy inherently requires discretion but can't acknowledge that because it derives its legitimacy from being objective

Meaning it has an unresolvable tension at its core

Demarcation problem - Wikipedia

I don’t know if anyone has already brought this up here, but the so-called demarcation problem in philosophy of science concerns how to distinguish science from pseudoscience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demarca...

Cartoon image titled "Saint Patrick Driving the snakes out of Ireland". It's a view through the windscreen. St P is driving, looking unamused in his mitre. The snakes in the car are complaining: "Are we there yet?", "How much further?", "I have to go to the bathroom", "I'm going to be sick"

Imagine looking at the world today and deciding to write an opinion piece complaining that people are buying fancy coffees.

Unless this is a joke?

William Tecumseh Sherman - Wikipedia

While the quote is apt, Sherman is remembered for this:

“After ordering almost all civilians to abandon the city in September, Sherman gave instructions that all military and government buildings in Atlanta be burned, although many private homes and shops were burned as well.”

Highlighter

I choose carefully
At first
The parts that really matter
But soon I realize
It all matters
And everything is bright like sunlight

Today’s poem(s): Katana Smith, “Three of Us” and “Shitty Boyfriend”
#lunchpoems

“prima facie, [ ** voice noticeably quieter ** ] it appears that these actions are inconsistent with international law.”

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Ceramic vessel in black with white dots and ridges coming from the small neck in a swirling pattern all on a white surface

Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart

Here's some bonkers microbiology terminology:

Thanks for your reply. My comment was snobbish and unkind.

There is literally no situation where Comic Sans is a good choice

And now I notice that’s not all it’s got!

Do it! It’s definitely got legs

Why Data Is Never Raw — The New Atlantis On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment

My long read about this: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

The Bible ≠ God

Cover of “The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel

“The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life” by Eviatar Zerubavel

As is happens, Olivia Dean sings about this topic in “Loud”:

“The silence is so loud
And everything's unspoken now”

I’m a biostatistician who does some work on RCTs. I don’t think it’s incorrect to call this a randomized controlled trial. But I think you can’t called it a randomized *clinical* trial since it’s more a kind of simulation of what *might* have happened.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.