The latest video from Patterns Day is up—Ellen’s superb philosophical presentation: Patterns in Language, Language in Patterns.
There’s so much packed into this one, it might take more than one viewing to take it all in.
Some of the explanations get a little ranty, but Heydon’s collection of observed fallacies rings true:
I’ve definitely had the Luddite fallacy and the scale fallacy thrown in my face as QEDs.
The ‘made at Facebook’ fallacy is pretty much identical to what I’ve been calling the fallacy of assumed competency: copying something that large corporation X is doing just because large corporation X is doing it.
A fascinating detective story of the Enlightenment, told from a very personal perspective.
There’s more than a whiff of Indie Web thinking in this sequel to the Cluetrain Manifesto from Doc Searls and Dave Weinberger.
The Net’s super-power is connection without permission. Its almighty power is that we can make of it whatever we want.
It’s quite lawn-off-getty …but I also happen to agree with pretty much all of it.
Although it’s kind of weird that it’s published on somebody else’s website.
A really great interview with Nick Bostrom about humanity’s long-term future and the odds of extinction.
The Fermi paradox as applied to tapeworms.
‘Sfunny; just yesterday I was revisiting this classic tapeworm tale on Fray.
I am a mermaid.
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Kevin Kelly on mankind's love/hate relationship with technology.
A brilliant braindump by Matt Webb examining the weave of the Web and the nature of reality. Set aside some time to soak this up.
A superb article by John Allsopp on semantics in the broad sense, from philosophy and linguistics right through to markup. And this is just part one! Read, enjoy, and prepare for part two.