announcement: research post for 3D modeler/fabricator

2019-02-19 Thread TOM CORBY
Dear Colleagues, please forward the following to those who may be interested. This is an AHRC funded research assistant role (34 months) to work on the physical representation of climate change and its data at Central St Martins. Apologies for cross-posting. Materializing Data, Embodying Climat

Re: Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-19 Thread mp
On 19/02/2019 02:57, Morlock Elloi wrote: > to which we meekly subject to demonstrate compliance. What word shall we > use for facts? What are facts anyway? Useful for building washing machines and cars? Eternal truths? For who? 'Facts' and the notion of them that you seem to be chasing are wi

Re: Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

2019-02-19 Thread Morlock Elloi
BTW, take a look at this graph: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%22fake%20news%22,%22conspiracy%20theory%22 It seems that "fake news" meme failed, and we're moving back to time-tested "conspiracy theory". On 2/18/19, 23:57, Morlock Elloi wrote: Read this ov