The Way We Live Now: Little Brother Is Watching →
In the Web era, we are eroding our privacy all by ourselves.
actors
if you’re an actor,
you’re a metafictional piece of shit professional eavesdropper.
unless actions aren’t shit,
in which case: reaction.
Monday Poem →
Flash Fires
If these thoughts became fossils
they might be found by some
neuro-paleontologist in time to come
buried among those of others
pressed in the strata of notions
like carcasses of…
Crayola: Helping crazy people remember colors and realize they’re crazy for 100 years.
The Knobe Effect →
Melody Dye in Child’s Play:
What is experimental philosophy and is it new? How does the language we speak both encode and subsequently shape our moral understanding? How can…
Bastion →
As scientists, we can subtly, or even powerfully, manipulate people’s expectations and understanding of a given question or task by using particular words in particular ways. And even better, we can predict — with no little accuracy!– the effect this is going to have on our subjects. (Didn’t advertisers figure this out a long time ago?)
