“I have for all my mature life been impressed by people’s tenacity, and in no specific more than discussion, whether in electronic forums or newspapers’ letters to the editor…”

(tags: via:vielmetti philosophy argument quotes learning dialog modeling abstraction insight)

“The systems we keep will be hybrid creations. They will have a strong rootstock of peer-to-peer generation, grafted below highly refined strains of controlling functions.”

(tags: collaboration swarms multiagent behavior collective crowdsourcing design Goldilocks)

nonphotorealistic photography

(tags: digital photography nonphotorealistic imaging visualization digitization rendering focus)

I want to live in a place where business websites and meta-websites are embarrassed to be “normal”. I’m guessing we have to make that happen.

(tags: business business-culture local Michigan entrepreneurs economics public-policy labor organization)

“… yet Nature still thinks it’s okay to publish a four-paragraph article containing two paragraphs of unsupported speculation about ways in which unions might or might not harm students.”

(tags: via:cshalizi universities unions labor organization graduate-school cultural-norms academia)