link dump, before I brave the torrential downpour

It is pouring out. I’d meant to go to Duke Gardens and start on Wealth of Networks again, but clearly not going to happen today. Instead, a quick linkdump and then a search for some local foraging.

8 thoughts on “link dump, before I brave the torrential downpour”

  1. [Ed.: no ad hominem attacks.]

    Also, if something is out from a Nazi playbook, is it a bad thing? It’s the common “Mussolini” fallacy: If Mussolini made trains run on time (which he didn’t, but never mind that), is it a bad thing that trains run on time? Torture is a bad thing because it’s inhumane, and not because Nazi used it.

  2. Oh, of course. If you haven’t figured that out by now, you’re pretty deeply irrational/immoral/in denial. But this is the kind of icing on the cake which tends to break through the thick skulls even of those people. And I think it should, properly, be a solid, emotional reminder even to those who long ago said ‘these guys are pretty damn evil.’

  3. Well, I’m starting to appreciate how well meaning Soviet oriented communists must have felt in the sixties. I still firmly believe that no country has done as much for democracy in the world as the U.S. And they torture people.

    However, I think there is an excellent chance that the U.S. will pull back from the madness. The U.S. democracy has the self correcting mechanisms that the Soviet or Nazi systems lacked.

  4. Which is why I haven’t done anything like move to Canada. Still frustrating and even demoralizing at times.

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