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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
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Smokin’! Gary Clark Jr. Performs “The House Is Rockin”
Gary Clark Jr. performs “The House Is Rockin” as tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. Smokin’ hot. What a great rendition.
Tagged awesome, entertainment, guitar, history, music, rip/remembrance
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Fox News Settles with Dominion for $787 Million, Averting Defamation Trial Over its 2020 Election Lies
John Gruber at Daring Fireball nails it, as usual: Fox News addicts justify their continuing viewership on the grounds that, more or less, “everyone does it” — that MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, etc. all blatantly lie to their viewers/readers in the same way Dominion proved that Fox News lies to […]
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski reporting at ProPublica: IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago on […]
Tagged bullshit, government, law/legal, politics
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Trump’s Arrest and Republican Outrage
Donald Trump, the former Reality TV host and President, whose “brand” has become synonymous with both losing and shit 1, was processed and arraigned yesterday in New York, due to his having been indicted on 34 felony counts for falsification of business records — the first former President of the United States to be indicted […]
Nashville School Shooting and the Metro Nashville Police Department
The Nashville school shooting is awful. Horrendous. What can you say, except that you feel for the victims and families. Now, right up front I need to tell you I am, in general, no fan of police. Because of my race, sex, gender and age, most people assume I am, but I am not. I […]
Nashville School Shooting
NewsChannel5 (WTVF) in Nashville: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Seven people are dead — including three children — at The Covenant School on Monday morning after a shooting inside the building. Three adult staff members are also dead. The shooter, who is also dead, is identified as Audrey Hale, 28. This person had no criminal history. […]
All right, what’s next?
At the end of The Bourne Identity (2002) there’s a very interesting scene Ward Abbott: [Testifying before a congressional intelligence committee] The Treadstone project has actually already been terminated. It was designed primarily as a sort of advanced game program. We’d hoped it might build into a good training platform, but quite honestly, for a […]
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Elon Musk puts $20 billion value on Twitter
MSN ‘reporting’ on a story by Erin Woo and Martin Peers at The Information (Sorry, I can’t afford to subscribe to The Information…): Twitter CEO Elon Musk has offered the social-media company’s employees stock grants at a valuation of nearly $20 billion, The Information reported on Saturday. The valuation is half the amount he paid […]
The One Thing Every Influential Guitar Tone Has In Common
Nashville guitarist and country musician Jim Lill on YouTube: My name is Jim. I’m a musician in Nashville and I’m pretty sure I’ve figured out the one thing every influential guitar tone has in common. About a year ago, I was confused by all the conflicting opinions out there about guitar tone, so I started […]
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How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown
Jonathan Martin reporting at Politico: NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Standing in the sun outside Tennessee’s Capitol Monday afternoon, and hoisting a sign that had the words “thoughts and prayers” crossed out in red, Karen Carter explained why she drove nearly two hours from her hometown of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., to confront most anybody who looked like they […]
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