All Confirmation Bias, All The Time

This is going to be a little bit oblique because I view the world somewhatdifferently than many people: I take an ecological view of the world, insystems and connections not just with rules.

This is the part of the post I started to write in part1 but got side-trackedwith the context-setting.

Introduction This is the post I don’t think many people expected me to write, and I have(rightly!)

I ran into a video review of a spiffy little kit for retrofit-wiring a homewith high speed Ethernet, invisibly.

Toast and Herbs Season The bounty of summer is coming to an end, but the farmer’s market is still running.

My husband watches a lot of TV procedurals, and so I end up watching a fairnumber with him and I spend a lot of time thinking about the cultural meaningof them and the popularity they enjoy.

I make no secret of the fact that my favorite TV franchise is Star Trek, thoughI’ve written about it very little.

There is some discourse going around my corners of the Internet lately,originating from this LessWrong post about the lengths of sentences inwritten works of fiction decreasing over time from nearly fifty to a perhapsunfair but poignant twelve in recent p…

I went on the North Shore Book Trailbookstore crawl yesterday with a dear friend and my husband.

I keep my feet in two worlds politically and it is baffling how much shared value they have, and how little shared context there is.

Yes, reading includes watching videos sometimes. […]suggests something of what it has truly meant, over the centuries, for people to read.

I’m off my regular routine due to travel, so I’m sparse, but here’s some interesting bits.

Things I’ve been reading this week: “Facts, frames, and (mis)interpretations: Understanding rumors as collective sensemaking” by Kate Starbird at Center for an Informed Public @ UW.

A writer friend of mine wrote a pretty goodessay during his July blog-post-a-dayambitions about queer protagonists.

How to stop holding social media wrong and start holding it right, or: an awkward introvert’s guide to not feeling quite so unheard.

This recipe is horrible but it works for me.

We joke that it’s an apocalypse but it is one.

I’m struggling with a community development phenomenon that’s been going on for a while around me, particularly in tech-centered Slack groups.

I went to a tai chi class this morning and had a somewhat surreal experience.

I’ve been using static publishing platforms for a while now.