A friend sent me a link the other day to a photo of this very cool plant.

Alien genetic experiment remnant, apparently.

The Wittgensteinian idea of “language games” is a useful one, but ignored because it’s inconvenient is that the same ideas can be applied to “numbers games” as numericity and math does not exist independently of human thought and contextualizing.

One of the reasons for science’s reproducibility crisis is not that anything is fundamentally broken in science but rather that the world just cannot be separated from itself as strongly as would be helpful to observing significant effects in many areas.

I am not arguing against empiricism per se but rather the idea that it’s anything but provisional in arenas outside fundamental laws or extremely simple systems — and sometimes not even then.

Quantification leads too often to the illusion of knowledge rather than to knowledge, and quite frequently we have no way even in principle to determine the difference.

This is not also an argument that we know or can know nothing, but rather that what we can know is as constrained by the “numbers games” we can play just as what we can determine playing language games.

As usual, I am not sure that any of what I write here is true, but I am certain (and at this, Wittgenstein would probably grin) that it is what I am thinking at the time.

The Democrats are so done.

the speed with which "Bernie supporters were Russian plants" has gone from unhinged joke to common wisdom is super chill

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) April 2, 2017

I’ve noticed that too — according to the Democrats, Russia now controls the entire US, Bernie was actually a Russian spy/Manchurian candidate, and all his supporters were also Russian shills, plants, and insurrectionists.

There is no way forward in this. It’s just a method for the Dems to avoid dealing with their responsibility for losing the election and for not having a coherent ideology other than one which just serves to bolster Wall Street and to support banksters in their fraud schemes and various pilferage, purloining and poaching from the societal commonweal.

Putin made me write this, of course. He’s standing beside me with an AK-47 to my head right now.

How the fuck do most people browse the internet on their phones? How is this a thing?

I have a really nice phone (iPhone 6) and it is a terrible, miserable, broken experience to browse almost any site on a phone. It’s slow, ad-filled, and impossible to copy or highlight text easily. Also, using multiple tabs is fundamentally broken, blogging is nearly impossible, and anything more complex than clicking “like” buttons is right out.

I’m still thankful though that most people are going to hobble their ability to compete with me in the workplace, where working on phones (except in a few jobs) will never be a thing.

I’ve already seen evidence of this in the interns who arrive at my workplace, many of whom can barely use a computer and take a long time to learn.