I just finished watching the movie Snowpiercer(2014). Morally devoid and conceptually stupid. After having watched Frontline about ISIS earlier in the evening, with all the unnecessary snuff film footage, Snowpiercer was brutal. The basic plot, that you can wantonly kill people with all the latest first-person-shooter-game violence you can think of, for the sake of…
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Social Networks and Privacy
There’s been a lot of news about Ello, a new social network on the block, but one that promises privacy, in contrast with Facebook. Why don’t people know that diaspora* has been around for a long time, has over a million users and respects privacy and has no ads? Here’s an article about this.
Modern Physics is a Reductio ad Absurdum Argument
Sometimes I think that modern physics has become a reductio ad absurdum argument. Sometime in the 1960s or so, with quarks and continuing to strings and other developments, things started getting ridiculous. Soon, I hope, physicists will say we’ve reached the point of absurdity and declare the argument finished, and we’ll go back and reverse…
Cantor’s Infinities
This idea of different levels of infinity is, like, patently dumb. We’re talking about Infinity, you know. There will always be another integer that you can map every rational number into, because, well, there are an infinite number! There is only one infinite. You only need one. Before even considering this, though, I would say…
Tech software thought
We need a toolkit for apps, especially social apps. Like the old days of game tool kits, where users contribute to building games, or at least, game worlds. Some are working on enabling programming for non-programming. Better, I think, is that plus rich tool kits. People are going to come up with their own ideas….