APOCRYPHAL ROAD CODE by Jared Randall

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Note on “It’s not the technology, stupid!”

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May 232011
 
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[Cathy Davidson hits the nail on the head in this forward-looking response to those who fear our technology will, de facto, ruin us. These are not new fears but fall within a long line of such stretching back at least to Plato. The line of this thinking worries that the best of culture's formulations (and thus, the best thinkers' thoughts) are threatened by the drivel of the common-minded. "How can I make the world safe for my superior thinking about how the world is and should be?" And so on. Rather a prideful worldview, based perhaps in a radical inferiority complex. If your thoughts are so superior, can anything stop them? Why so worried? Why the need to stifle competition rather than win outright?]

http://hastac.mobify.me/blogs/cathy-davidson/its-not-technology-stupid-response-nyt-twitter-trap

Osama bin Laden: how DNA identified his body – New Scientist – New Scientist

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May 052011
 
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http://www.newscientist.com/mobile/article/dn20439-osama-bin-laden-how-dna-identified-his-body.html

[I'm not that interested in conspiracy theories about bin Laden's death, for the same reason that I'm not interested in the Birthers' ongoing claims. It's a waste of energy amounting to debates about the identification of meaningless and localized and probably imaginary symptoms when the true disease, which has no or only coincidental connections to these imagined symptoms, gets little to no attention. On the other hand, I am interested to point out that DNA evidence not actually released is not yet evidence, a much more basic observation you won't hear much about because the profit-driven media only sees bin Laden's death as a resource to be exploited for as long as possible, a new vein of gold to be extracted from the social landscape. Every outlet in town is taking a shot or two from its own carefully calculated angle...]