Walking through the neighborhood this morning, I’m noticing that The Epoch Times is distributing physical newspapers for free in an effort to encourage subscriptions. I’ve never heard of the newspaper and initially suspected it had some religious perspective. Apparently it is an anti-communist Chinese paper. Sadly their distribution zone didn’t include my street. Might have been interesting to sample.
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Short content: a microblog of status updates or short notes
I’m a fan of the concept of George Lakoff’s “Truth Sandwich” idea in journalism. I’m curious with his recent spate of great publicity for it if any major outlets have taken it directly to heart? Are there any examples of major newspapers or online publishers taking it closely to heart? Has George or anyone created a news feed or Twitter account of articles covering Trump (or topics like the Alt-right, Nazis, etc.) that highlights articles which pull off the idea? I’d love to support journalism which goes to greater lengths to think about their coverage and it’s longer term effects. Having an ongoing list of articles as examples would help to extend the idea as well.
It would be cool to have something like NewsGuards’ browser extension for highlighting truth sandwiches, but I’m not sure how something like this could be built to be automated.
The best example of a truth sandwich I’ve come across thus far actually went a few steps further than the truth sandwich and chose not to cover what was sure to be untruth from the start: MSNBC declines to allow Sarah Sanders to dictate its programming (Washington Post).
📖 Read pages 21-24 of Abstract and Concrete Categories: The Joy of Cats by Jirí Adámek, Horst Herrlich, George E. Strecker
📖 Read pages 21-24 of Abstract and Concrete Categories: The Joy of Cats by Jirí Adámek, Horst Herrlich, George E. Strecker
One of the things I love most about The New York Times‘ podcast The Daily is that the storytelling and analysis are just as strong when listening months later as they are if you’re listening contemporaneously.
Twenty-something: A time in one’s life when it’s passingly acceptable that most of one’s dishware be of the plastic souvenir sort.
“Look ma! They stack AND I get cheaper refills.”
Thirty-something: A time when one has decommissioned all of one’s souvenir cups only to replace them with twice the amount of mismatched children’s sippy cups and plastic-ware.
“Where’s the lid to this?”
Fourty-something: A time to help a new budding teenager begin their own addiction to plastic souvenir cups.
“This dinosaur cup has such an awesome swirly straw and it glows in the dark!”
I decided to give the professional subscription to Inoreader a chance for a year and a half. Hoping some of the additional features will save me some time and effort in my reading flows. Now to tweak some of my set up.
📖 Read pages i-20 the front matter and Introduction of Abstract and Concrete Categories: The Joy of Cats by Jirí Adámek, Horst Herrlich, George E. Strecker
📖 Read pages i-20 the front matter and Introduction of Abstract and Concrete Categories: The Joy of Cats by Jirí Adámek, Horst Herrlich, George E. Strecker
Some initial discussion of sets, classes, and conglomerates to keep us out of trouble with some of the potential foundational issues that can be found in set theory.
Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia
completions of partially orderedsets and of metric spaces,ˇCech-Stone compactifications of topological spaces, sym-metrizations of relations, abelianizations of groups, Bohr compactifications of topo-logical groups, minimalizations of reachable acceptors, etc. ❧
The tough part of category theory is lists of things like this right up front which will tend to scare off almost any reader but those who are working on Ph.D.s in mathematics…
November 30, 2018 at 09:29PM
Motivation ❧
I really wish more math textbooks had motivation sections like this one does.
November 30, 2018 at 09:35PM
Therefore we advise the beginner to skip from here, go directly to§3, and return to this section only when the need arises. ❧
They’ve buried the lede here apparently.
November 30, 2018 at 10:15PM
Kuratowski definition of an ordered pair ❧
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the specific name Kuratowski attached to this.
November 30, 2018 at 10:31PM
The Amazon app gave me a useful enough notification that I was able to walk outside and pick up my package at the street just as it was delivered. How convenient for both me and the driver who didn’t even have to get out of the vehicle.
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📖 6% done with Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
📖 Read pages xiv-xx of the Preface of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
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📖 Read pages i-xiv of the Preface of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
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As I listen to Scene on Radio’s series Men, I’m a bit jarred when they use the word “virtue” without acknowledging its provenance in relation to their topic.
Virtue’s etymology includes the Latin word vir meaning man, which is also the stem of the Latin word virtus meaning valour, merit, moral perfection, and even strength or manliness. These are also, not coincidentally, the antecedent words for the modern English word virile, which has a more in-your-face relationship with men.
I’m thinking we need a more modern “femina”-centered word meaning moral perfection…
I’ve just run across a great old school internet button:
Is your website XFN Friendly?
Oh the memories brought back by the odd smell of turning the heat on for the first time in the winter…