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    EVENTS

    Unrelated: About Pigeons

    Apparently an artist came up with the idea of making shoes that look like pigeons, in order to get closer to pigeons.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 1, 2017
    • Art

    Book Review: History of Skepticism (Popkin)

    This book is one of the first that I added to my list of recommended reading, for very good reasons. [list]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 30, 2017
    • Book Report

    Memorial Day 2017

    Today is the day when the nation pauses to say stupid things about the victims of its pointless imperial wars. A small minority of them, actually.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 29, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Totalitarianism, War is a Racket

    When is a “Field” Discredited?

    We’ve recently been treated to a round of Sokal-style hoax papers that were declared to invalidate (or at least severely damage) parts of a field, because they were accepted by publications within that field. [pharyngula]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 29, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Technology

    Monday Meslier: 177 – The Supposition of Another Life is Neither Consoling to Man Nor Necessary to Morality

    Jean Meslier Portrait

    Jean Meslier

    We are assured that the dogma of another life is of the greatest importance to the peace of society; it is imagined that without it men would have no motives for doing good. Why do we need terrors and fables to teach any reasonable man how he ought to conduct himself upon earth?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 29, 2017
    • Monday Meslier, Philosophy

    Sunday Sermon: Torture – Why?

    Content Warning: Torture

    After this, I am going to stop posting about torture, and resume being my usual fake happy soap-making, nihilist, anarchist, technology strategy-loving self. I promise.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 28, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Propaganda, Sunday Sermon, Terrorism, Totalitarianism

    Torture

    I periodically post this in comments on other blogs when the topic comes up. A lot of Americans are ignorant of the law regarding torture, and are kept that way, deliberately. Let me clear that up a bit for us all.

    [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 27, 2017
    • Bureaucracy, Burn it to the ground

    Watch Robert Mueller Duck and Weave

    One of my personal agendas in blogging here is to help people defeat the assumption that someone whose interests appear to be aligned with theirs on one thing, is aligned with theirs on most things.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 25, 2017
    • Philosophy

    Chocolate Fudge Brownie Soap -2

    I unmolded the soaps last night. They came out pretty well! I wish I had added a bit of titanium dioxide to them to make them a little less dark but they’re fine. [Read more…]

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 25, 2017
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    Chocolate Fudge Brownie Soap

    If you’re going to make one of my soap recipes, this is the one. It’s easy, too. Would I lie about something like this?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 24, 2017
    • Art, Recipes
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