Category Archives: Links & Comments

Lc&Cs: Disinfo’s Popularity, Villainous Facebook, and the Complexity of Modern Life

Posted on Saturday 9 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Links from this past week, with comments, about how Facebook finds disinformation popular and therefore profitable, how its users search out disinformation to confirm their preconceptions, how Republican disinfo about COVID is killing off its base, about Trump True Believers’ … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: The Fading of Religion, and Human Progress Despite It

Posted on Thursday 7 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Here are several links about religion I’ve captured in recent weeks mostly to the Patheos.com website, which is a collection of blogs from all points of view along the religious spectrum. The ones I tend to read, of course, are … Continue reading →

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Ls&Cs: Just a Few Rocks to Look At

Posted on Tuesday 5 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Catching up on one last batch of links and comments collected but not yet posted since I came home from the hospital in June. Not all of them political. And, let’s try something new: placing some kind of relevant photograph … Continue reading →

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Aug-Sep Ls&Cs: Revising the Decline of Credulous, Mansplaining Fossil Fuel Flat-Earthers and Klan Refugees

Posted on Monday 4 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

From early August through early September — back at the beginning of the “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, when Covid deaths in the US hadn’t yet reached 700,000.

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Science Ls&Cs: Time for Critical Blue Ozone Fitness

Posted on Sunday 3 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The unfittedness of the universe for life; languages that do or don’t have a word for the color blue; telescopes as time machines; how scientists solved the ozone layer; critical thinking.

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Links & Comments: Today’s Headlines; Other Recent Links

Posted on Friday 1 October 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

About our national decline; how vaccine mandates are mostly working; violence in support of Trump; skewed news coverage; and public resistance to a health mandate in 1847, about doctors’ washing hands.

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L&Cs: Rhythm the Key to Everything?

Posted on Tuesday 28 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

What to make of this? (Link via Fb) Timber’s Newsletter: Rhythm is the single most important avenue to greatness in everything humans do Subtitled: “The best musicians, athletes, cooks, writers, and storytellers all have incredible rhythm”

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Ls&Cs: Interesting Times

Posted on Saturday 25 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

The latest on strategies to avoid long-term calamities, knowing of calamities and lying about them, the US compared to South America and Europe, and Americans’ grasp of reality.

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Ls&Cs: Computer world views; science fiction vs. fantasy

Posted on Friday 24 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

A couple non-political posts today.

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Ls&Cs: Elections and Mandates, Rights and Responsibilities

Posted on Tuesday 14 September 2021 by Mark R. Kelly

Status today 14 Sep 2021: Today is election day for a bid to recall California governor Gavin Newsome. Meanwhile, President Biden is trying to implement vaccine mandates, to howls of Republican objections. (As usual I’m behind posting links and comments, … Continue reading →

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