conspiracy theories are everywhere because the means to distribute information far outstrips the access to good information. cue the transparent society
Tag: culture
China work rules
Chinese culture is set on rules and following the rules takes precedence over productivity, efficiency, and even plain old reason.
this will come home to roost once cost of business is high enough
Fake Directions
Tourist mom: Excuse me, miss, do you know how to get back to Manhattan? Hipster girl: I’m sorry, I don’t really have the energy to give you fake directions right now.
Online to Offline
A dude on the internet referred to Russell Tavares as “a nerd” in an online trollfight. In one of the more dramatic tales of internet rage we’ve seen lately, the 27-year-old Tavares, who believed himself to not be a nerd, hopped in his car and sped off 2100 km from Virginia to Texas, where the name-caller lived. Tavares photographed road snapshots along his route, and posted the images online, as if to prove to his internet peers that he was not a luzer. When he got to there, he burned the dude’s trailer down. Tavares has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson.
such a nerd. OOOPS
Bible checksums
The scribes who were in charge of the Old Testament text dedicated their lives to preserving the text’s accuracy when they made copies. The great lengths the scribes went to guarantee the reliability of the copies is illustrated by the fact that they would count every letter and every word, and record in the margins such things as the middle letter and word of the Torah. If a single error was found, the copy was immediately destroyed. As a software engineer, I can personally vouch that the scribe’s method of protecting the text is more rigorous than the common checksuming methods used today to protect software programs from corruption
TV Accountability
since tv is not broadcast & forget anymore, it is out to haunt you if you are stupid / wrong. just wait for full-text search and face recognition. “give me dubya sound bites on X”.
Prison Thriller
anywhere else this would probably be cruel and unusual punishment.
English and Irish Ancestry
Say goodbye to foundation myths, and hello to Levenshtein distances of DNA strands to define the “other”.
Britain and Ireland have been inhabited for 1000s of years by a single people that has remained in the majority, with only minor additions from later invaders like Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Vikings and Normans.
2023-03-30: lol, this is completely wrong. 
Cultural Survival Nonsense
Most significant were indigenous peoples’ concerns that the results of the Genographic Project would contradict indigenous groups’ traditional understanding of their origins or history.
-1, stupid.
Age of ignorance
We take our young children to science museums, then as they get older we stop. In spite of threats like global warming and avian flu, most adults have very little understanding of how the world works. So, 50 years on from CP Snow’s famous ‘2 Cultures’ essay, is the old divide between arts and sciences deeper than ever?
as long as the political elites in the west continue to be scientifically illiterate lawyers, it will keep getting its ass kicked by china.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 