I’ve started on “Skin in the Game [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075HYVP7C]” by NN Taleb, the third book in his Incerto series, which included his book on Black Swans, and Antifragility. No, I haven’t finished it yet, so this isn’t a review, but an observation only one chapter in that this book, like Antifragile, will certainly give me a lot to think about. Even in the opening of the book, he ties together the Golden rule, the “silver rule”, reciprocity, game theory, and of course “skin in the ga…
It’s a tool, not an end to itself. Look, we have the right to bear arms, and are free to make choices insofar as we accept responsibility for the consequences of our choices, but not a right to indiscriminately point them while loaded, pulling the trigger. Thus, on the speech front, libel and slander laws. Orwell wrote in 1984 that freedom was the ability to state that two plus two equals four. That there were things that, no matter how imperfect our perceptions, were objectively true, and tha…
First, an aside. Today I got locked out of Twitter. Since I have no intention of handing them my phone number, it’s likely to stay that way. So, Q. Is Q real? Well – is Batman real? I know, you’re inclined to say “no”, but hear me out. One possibility is that Q is really really real, an actual human being who actually works high up in the Trump administration with a high clearance, and access to things like travel plans and speeches that the general public and press would not be. Maybe, ma…
It’s been a while. I generally avoid shooters these days. Age has caught up, my reflexes aren’t what they used to be, and the disconnect between head-snapping turns and reality often left me queasy after trying Borderlands 2 for a while. So. I ran into this review of Doom 4 by the inestimable Razorfist. And immediately shilled out the twenty it currently runs. It. Is. Glorious. But first…. please feast on this headline… It’s taken me two years to finally face the new Doom [https://archive.…
Today’s pics courtesy of “Captain Irachka [https://www.deviantart.com/captainirachka]“.…