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The Perimeter Expands
Federal enforcement, civilian risk, and the politics of escalation It’s a regular overcast morning in the PNW, something which will burn off, but something which lingers with feeling for the events of the day. I read a CNN report on… Continue reading
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Cú Chulainn and the Standards That Decide the Outcome
Creationism, Abiogenesis, and the Shape of a Closed Argument It was a beautiful Sunday morning, more representative of the quantum physical wonder of our Sun than any tedious deity’s claims, when as these things usually do, it was tainted with… Continue reading
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Science Montoya Was Right
On correction, meaning, and the misuse of theory in everyday speech The line gets quoted like a weapon, but it behaves more like a small act of repair. “I do not think it means what you think it means.” In… Continue reading
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Clown House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent
While war rages, the economy slips towards recession or worse, and the president tries to create a Ice‑tapo for America. The House wisely decides to placate the lowest hanging fruit with broad support. Ok, so the real article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/ar-AA27UMiH Continue reading
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Alternatives, or the Refusal to Default
Questions We Avoid When We Ask for Alternatives I have been noticing a pattern in my own feed lately. People who were once mildly skeptical of capitalism are writing with a sharper edge, a tone that suggests not just dissatisfaction… Continue reading
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Purpose Isn’t Waiting Out There
Probability, Constraint, and the Human Habit of Calling It Design Facebook, and to a slightly lesser degree Threads and Twitter, have become strange little tide pools of thought. You get polished arguments, half‑formed intuitions, outright nonsense, and every so often… Continue reading
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The Chameleon Who Stayed Near Power
Act IV: drying out in the sun Lindsey Graham died this morning, and the timing feels almost too clean for a career defined by elasticity. I don’t mean that in a poetic sense. I mean it in the way a… Continue reading
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More About Nothing
I’m not sure about what it is on quiet Sunday mornings that brings out the most existential views. It could be the memories of being woken up at 5 AM to go to church in the snow, and how we… Continue reading
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Color Is Not Arguing With You
Geometry, perception, and the quiet collapse of the subjective–objective divide under an overcast sky Here’s one I had to dredge up from notes about discussion I had which I thought I was right on, but later found out I was… Continue reading
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Bayesian Reasoning in a Lost World
How Evidence Updates Beliefs About Ancient Narratives Ah, another day with Facebook and Threads! On this Americano fueled Tuesday, I saw this gem from Lost World Museum. “Many creation scientists theorize one of the major contributors of preflood longevity was… Continue reading
