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When truth is old it is still true

November 14, 2011 – 10:06 pm

From James 5: Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you.  Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last [...]

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one percent of everything

November 7, 2011 – 11:37 am

In response to this: Attention, Protestors: You’re Probably Part of the 1% (quoting) The recent Occupy Wall Street protests have aimed their message at the income disparity between the 1% richest Americans and the rest of the country. But what happens when you expand that and look at the 1% richest of the entire world? [...]

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Artifice Wrecks

October 16, 2011 – 1:23 pm

Some thoughts prompted by this post… Thought Gadgets: A brief history of how you stopped being human Tweaking a photo with Instagram does not make it artistic. Selective redefinition of terms like ‘creativity’ and ‘intelligence’ makes for category errors rather than creativity. So – come to think of it – maybe iPhones DO enable artificial [...]

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