David Weinberger
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
I write/speak about how AI, the Net, etc.are shaping our ideas. Latest book: Everyday Chaos. Delirious pa and grandpa. (he/him) @[email protected]
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4 days ago |
kmworld.com | David Weinberger
Almost exactly 5 months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began advocating for military action against Iraq, alleging that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling “weapons of mass destruction,” or WMDs—an acronym that quickly became ubiquitous. President George W. Bush supported this justification, arguing explicitly by early 2002 that action was necessary to prevent Middle Eastern regimes from potentially transferring WMDs to terrorist groups.
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1 month ago |
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Laurent Bègue |David Weinberger |Serge Garcet
1 Introduction Animal abuse is defined as a “socially unacceptable behavior that intentionally causes unnecessary pain, suffering, or distress to/or death of an animal” (Ascione 1993, 228). Because of its obvious implications for animal welfare as well as its significant connection with human mental health and interpersonal violence (Chan and Wong 2019; Cleary et al. 2021; Longobardi and Badenes-Ribera 2018; Monsalve et al. 2017; Mota-Rojas et al.
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1 month ago |
acton.org | David Weinberger
C.S. Lewis once observed that the world is full of stories of people who say they have experienced miracles. What, though, are we to make of them? Can they be true? Are miracles even possible? Hagiographies sometimes convey extraordinary stories and legendary accretions, intended to leave devotees in awe. And then there are those tales of saints who flew.
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2 months ago |
kmworld.com | David Weinberger
Perhaps you’ve heard this one before:All people are mortal. Socrates is a person. Therefore: Socrates is mortal. This is the classic example of the West’s preferred form of reasoning— deductive logic. We have long professed to prefer it because of the certainty of its conclusions: If you’ re certain about the first two premises, known as the major and the minor premises, then you can be certain that Socrates is going to be pining for the fjords eventually.
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Jan 25, 2025 |
dailykos.com | David Weinberger
Donald Jehosiphat Trump today said that he's considering a tariff on the Tooth Fairy. "Why does she get to pull all those American teeth?”, he said in the course of an interview about the disadvantages of health care. “We don't even know where she offshores them."When asked for specifics about the tariff, Trump said, "Elon is working on an exact amount, but I told him it has to be high. So high that children keep up to 90% of their original teeth.
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President Cancel My Cancellation has cancelled his profoundly stupid cancellation of student visas. Unfortunately, cancelling a cancellation still leaves a mark. #trump
They're lumberjacks and they're ok. (via @mathewi ) #Python
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He tweeted "Jews love me like the ]King of Israel' " and Israeli Jews "love him like he is the second coming of God." https://t.co/nviai896Zz Plenty of other sources cover it.
@JamesTate121 Show me where he said any of this. Because I missed it
