ActivityStream.Silverton.Palo-Alto.CA.us - tagged with philosophy http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron michael@silverton.palo-alto.ca.us When I’m Old and Wise http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/10706/when-im-old-and-wise ]]> Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:00:00 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/10706/when-im-old-and-wise Best TEDx Talk of 2011? The future of transportation & happiness. http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/10667/best-tedx-talk-of-2011-the-future-of-transportation-amp-happiness

TEDxUCLA – Jimmy Lizama – My Message is Bicycle

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Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:35:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/10667/best-tedx-talk-of-2011-the-future-of-transportation-amp-happiness
Google ngram: the word "liberty" http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/8512/google-ngram-the-word-quotlibertyquot

  For the pointer I thank Kevin Edwards.  The link here allows you to see the full graph.  In contrast, here is "freedom."

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Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:17:00 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/8512/google-ngram-the-word-quotlibertyquot
Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/5894/jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight ]]> Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:06:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/5894/jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight OG Libertarianism, Penn Jillette Style http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/5892/og-libertarianism-penn-jillette-style

“To be able to say you’re wrong and here are the reasons, is respect. To say you’re evil, is anti-human.” — Penn Jillette

This is not an endorsement of libertarianism, per se, but it is a damned good working description. Compare and contrast to other ideas and draw your own conclusions.

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Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:00:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/5892/og-libertarianism-penn-jillette-style
OH: Comments on the Phenomenal Self http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4877/oh-comments-on-the-phenomenal-self

"We must take care not to delude ourselves. All beliefs are founded on some kind of “voluntary” mind control technique. In other words, we are easily susceptible to believe what we want to believe, and thus we must take care not to loose sight of the goal of truth in our 'self-realisation'." -- CygnusX1

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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:39:21 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4877/oh-comments-on-the-phenomenal-self
On Self-Leadership http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4587/on-self-leadership

Brief text. Deep context. An all too rare combo to which I must needs better and further aspire. http://bit.ly/self-leadership

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Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:46:29 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4587/on-self-leadership
Suddenly trapped in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap … http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4306/suddenly-trapped-in-the-blinding-headlights-of-vacuous-crap

“And if, perchance, I have offended, think but this, and all is mended: it as well be ten minutes back in time, for all the chance you’ll change your mind.”

Thank you, IEET blog!

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:15:00 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4306/suddenly-trapped-in-the-blinding-headlights-of-vacuous-crap
Why do people laugh at creationists? http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4292/why-do-people-laugh-at-creationists

A 30 part series in one embeddable player. Feel free to lift this code to embed in your own sites.

Please do vote to help balance skews from vote-bots. YouTube should really do a much better job of throttling 3 standard-deviation moves on such metrics. Legitimate big pops can be anticipated by content creators and account holders could temporarily disarm such circuit breakers when the situation merits.

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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:49:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4292/why-do-people-laugh-at-creationists
Open-mindedness http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4293/open-mindedness

“It’s not a virtue to be easily persuaded by people.”

Thank you for this great post, @mlanger!

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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:01:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4293/open-mindedness
The Four Horsemen http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4298/the-four-horsemen ]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:08:00 -0700 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4298/the-four-horsemen THE IMMORTALISTS - a short film by Jason Silva http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4541/the-immortalists-a-short-film-by-jason-silva ]]> Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:53:00 -0800 http://michael.silverton.palo-alto.ca.us/sweetcron/items/view/4541/the-immortalists-a-short-film-by-jason-silva