-
About
- Yeah, in a Minute... is the personal dumping grounds of Paul Landry:
- NAME AND PRONOUNS:
- "Paul" / "he–him–his"
- FIND ME ON:
- The Fediverse:
- and pretty much everywhere else via [About.me]...
- PHOTO BLOG:
- LASTLY:
- But not leastly, [Fuck Facebook!]
- And Royally [Fuck Twitter!]
-
News Gathering vs. Confirmation Bias
- Remember, if you do not have at least one source of news that you turn to regularly, with which you routinely disagree, then you are not practicing news gathering! You are practicing [confirmation bias].
-
Search
-
Science
-
[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.
-
[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.
-
Subscribe
-
Top Tags
-
Most Recent Entries
- 📌 Mastodon
- 📌 Science is more than a body of knowledge
- Happy Festivus
- Don’t Talk on Cell Phone While Driving, Just Don’t Do It
- Trump Contradicts Himself Regarding Sidney Powell’s Role
- R.I.P. Jimmy Buffet
- Project Street Vet
- The Best Way to Spot an Idiot: Kindness as a Signifier of Intelligence
- Wasn’t even a Nazi in his youth.
- Twitter Limits Backfire
- Oh no! The “Woke” Police are Going to Have to Cancel Their Precious Chick-fil-A
- Why Prince May Have Been the Greatest Guitarist Since Jimi Hendrix
-
More Recent Entries
- Twitter Limits Backfire
- Oh no! The “Woke” Police are Going to Have to Cancel Their Precious Chick-fil-A
- Why Prince May Have Been the Greatest Guitarist Since Jimi Hendrix
- Smokin’! Gary Clark Jr. Performs “The House Is Rockin”
- Fox News Settles with Dominion for $787 Million, Averting Defamation Trial Over its 2020 Election Lies
- How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown
- Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
- Trump’s Arrest and Republican Outrage
- Nashville School Shooting and the Metro Nashville Police Department
- Nashville School Shooting
- All right, what’s next?
- Elon Musk puts $20 billion value on Twitter
- The One Thing Every Influential Guitar Tone Has In Common
- Extreme are Back, Baby!
- It’s Time to Ban “Right Turn on Red”
- Tucker Carlson texts reveal he hates Trump “Passionately”
- End Daylight Saving Time and switch to Standard Time all year
- Trump Visits East Palestine, Conveniently Forgets Own Record
-
Etc.
- Gunga Galunga. Gunga—Gunga Lagunga.
- For another grand, I'll let you take me out to dinner.
- Sippin' on booze in the House of Blues.
- Dude! Stop saying that—it was just a party!
- It's not exactly rocket surgery.
- Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
- Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock!
- iPhone, Bitch!
- 6EQUJ5
-
Meta
Author Archives: Paul
Nikon Releases D810 Firmware v1.14
Nikon (via email): A new firmware update is available for your Nikon D810 DSLR. You can either perform this firmware update yourself or request your local Nikon Service facility do it for you.
Tagged gear, nikon, photography
Comments Off on Nikon Releases D810 Firmware v1.14
Apple confirms iOS 12 will close iPhone security hole used by police and criminals
James Martin writing at CNET: Apple will make a method — often used by police — for getting data off iPhones much less powerful with a software update announced Wednesday. The change, called USB Restricted Mode, will close down access to data through a iPhone’s Lightning port if the phone hasn’t been unlocked in the […]
Tagged apple, crime, law enforcement, privacy, security
Comments Off on Apple confirms iOS 12 will close iPhone security hole used by police and criminals
Fujifilm Releases X-T2 Firmware 4.10
FujiRumors: Fujifilm just released firmware updates for Fujifilm X-H1 and Fujifilm X-T2. Both cameras get a major Kaizen update. The Fujifilm X-T2 firmware 4.10 is a revised version of firmware ver.4.00.
Tagged fujifilm, gear, photography
Comments Off on Fujifilm Releases X-T2 Firmware 4.10
Why We Need to Take Pet Loss Seriously
Guy Winch writing at Scientific American: Losing a beloved pet is often an emotionally devastating experience. Yet, as a society, we do not recognize how painful pet loss can be and how much it can impair our emotional and physical health. Symptoms of acute grief after the loss of a pet can last from one […]
More Than Just Russia
Jeremy Scahill at The Intercept: Did Trump directly conspire with Vladimir Putin and Russia to influence the 2016 election? That is certainly possible. Will we see concrete evidence of that, especially evidence that would stand up in a court? That also is possible. […] But this much is clear: It is a major mistake to […]
Tagged crime, government, politics
Comments Off on More Than Just Russia
micro.blog-entry
“First the monkey, now my hat—how much worse can this day get?” Source: paullandry.micro.blog
Tagged micro.blog
Comments Off on micro.blog-entry
Apple Is Making Password Management Easier in iOS 12
Christina Bonnington writing at Slate: Apple is making some noteworthy changes to the way its devices handle passwords, changes that should help smartphone users better manage their passwords—and perhaps use better password practices in general. In iOS 12, Apple will be giving developers access to a new Password Manager API. This API will work with […]
micro.blog-entry
Excited. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
Tagged micro.blog
Comments Off on micro.blog-entry
micro.blog-entry
“Excuse me, Miss… Miss Pyle? Uh, M- Missy? I… I bought the reward to have dinner with you…” — Penn Jillette as Herbert Blount, Director’s Cut (2016). Source: paullandry.micro.blog
Tagged micro.blog
Comments Off on micro.blog-entry
micro.blog-entry
“The results suggest dogs do seem to prefer the canine version of baby talk. But why do we have the impulse to talk to them like babies? Interestingly, we don’t.” Do Dogs Really Prefer Baby Talk? You Might Be Surprised. Source: paullandry.micro.blog
Tagged micro.blog
Comments Off on micro.blog-entry