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Heading For The Last Roundup

January 31, 2019
by Caroline Miller
cattle ranching and the environment, Clive Thompson, Faux Sure, global warming, Hugger Foods, new definition for meat, plant based diets, The Cattlemen's Associations
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Ranchers may be getting worried.  The Cattlemen’s Association has asked the government to “’define ‘meat’ as a product ‘derived from animals.’” (“Faux Sure!” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Jan. 2019, pg. 26.) Apparently, they feel threatened by growth in the “fake”
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I Send My Thoughts Through Time And Space…(from a poem by J.E. Flecker)

November 21, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Antisocial Media, blog writing, Clive Thompson, Daily Rituals, going viral, Mason Currey, Rob Beschizza, social media, txt.fyi
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I am  sick of Facebook.  I’m tired of its cutesy messages.  I don’t want to celebrate the fact that Rudolf Valentino and I have been friends for 3 days. Nor do I want reports on the number of “likes” my comments receive in a week. Frankly, Facebook, I don’t give a damn. 
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Faster Than A Speeding Bullet? Why?

September 18, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Aesop, Americans are addicted to speed, Clive Thompson, Icebox ap, Impulse buying, Is Faster better?, Slow Software
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I recently upgraded my computer.  The new hard drive resides in a box the size of a deck of playing cards. When my installer finished his work, he stood back, with his arms folded.  “You’re going to love this,” he assured me.  “It’s so much faster.” Sadly, “faster”
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A Tale of Mystery, Intrigue, And The Lava Lamp

July 17, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Bring Back the Geeks, Clive Thompson, Cloudflare, cryptographic keys, Ellen Airhart, Lava Lamp, missile defense, Newt Gingrich, Random Grooves, random numbers, Ronald Reagan
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For me, computers pose a mystery.  They are as confusing as a black hole or as simple as a line of 0s and 1s.  When we get to algorithms, life gets tricky.  I haven’t a clue about computer programing, but I remember something from calculus about the difficulty of choosing random
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Coal Miner As Techie

April 25, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Clive Thompson, coal miners and plant workers ideal as computer coders, Code Is King, computer coding, easy transition from blue collar jobs to coding
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Geometry was my downfall in high school.  Languages weren’t much better.  I have an aversion to memorizing material.  All those theorems and all that vocabulary made my head spin.   On the other hand,  my brief but spectacular introduction to organic chemistry was a delight. 
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Clutter And Creativity

March 13, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Clive Thompson, clutter and creativity, Clutter Clash, tidiness and human behavior
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Clutter can be a sign of a creative mind at work.  Clive Thompson writes that a person with pack rat behavior may have an effective “organizational strategy.” Call it, “serendipity.” (“Clutter Clash,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, March 2016, pg. 49.)  When disparate
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Ruminations On The Face Of Human Kind

February 05, 2018
by Caroline Miller
Charles Dickens, Clive Thompson, David Copperfield, Donald Trump, the art of being wrong, Uriah Heep
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In a recent opinion piece, Clive Thompson begins with the question, “What do you do when you discover you are wrong?” (“Retraction Heroes,” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Feb, 2018, pg. 034.)  He goes on to extol the merits of an evolutionary biologist, Daniel Bolnick, who pub
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Too Much Information And Too Little Public Good

May 12, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Clive Thompson, Dave Eggrs, gerrymandering, Moon Duchin, NSA, self-surveillance greater than NSA, The Circle
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Unlike a declining number of people on the planet, I can remember when my life wasn’t documented.  I can recall researching the subject of ear wax at the library without finding my mailbox stuffed the next day with discount coupons for drops or scrapers to facilitate its removal. 
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True Lies, Alternate Truth, Fake News And Diogenes

February 07, 2017
by Caroline Miller
alternative truth, Clive Thompson, Donald Trump, fake news, governing by confusion and disinformation, Melina Zanders, The Social Medium is the Message, true lies
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Donald Trump’s truth varies minute by minute.  It’s like listening to Variations of a Theme of Paganini but less pleasant. Trump doesn’t seem to worry about these variations, which his critics call lies. Rather, he twists the truth, I suspect, to convince his subjects that one
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Predictive Softward

November 11, 2016
by Caroline Miller
ACLU, artificial intelligence, Broward County, Clive Thompson, Issi Lapowsky, Minority Report, predictive algorithms, The Justice Machine
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In an earlier blog (10/27/16), I referred to an article by Clive Thompson about artificial intelligence.  He warned we know so little about what’s going on inside those wired machines, we should consider what this lack of transparency means.  Are we being foolhardy when we put too
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