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Tag Archives: language
A Brief History of the Gradual Shift from Submission Censorship towards Self Publishing
One of my friends who has enough patience to patiently listen to my own long-winded diatribes into various affairs in the realms of such sophisticated topics as literacy, economics or even the conditions of life in general (yet who will … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, brand name, brand names, brands, censorship, language, mass media, online publishing, publishing, rational media, self publishing, submission, submissive, submit
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The relationship between the Validity of Natural Language Expressions and the Statistical Concepts of Accuracy and Precision
As you may be aware, I recently started reading a book that was quite the bestseller a few years ago (see e.g. my initial reaction to the quote: “The problem is that the pervasiveness of technology and mass marketing is … Continue reading
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Tagged accuracy, accurate, expression, expressions, language, natural language, precise, precision, reliability, reliable, science, scientific, valid, validity
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Obscurity is an issue we all have to deal with
It’s been almost two decades since Tim O’Reilly wrote “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.” That article mainly dealt with issues of copyright and similar intellectual property laws – and one point where … Continue reading
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Tagged common, community, engage, engaged, engagement, engaging, language, linguistic community, obscurity, participation, people, shared, unique selling proposal, USP
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Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word
I have an important announcement to make: I’ve learned something — and what I learned has helped me to change my course. Many years ago, I started using Facebook (in large part because one of my friends said “facebook” was … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, brand name, brand names, brands, fake news, Hope & Change, irrational media, language, manipulation, propaganda, rational media, retard media, slogans, suckers, wisdom of the language
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I understand that this is very important to you
One of the texts on my “summer reading” list was “The Plague” (by Albert Camus). I had never read anything of Camus’ before, and I was stunned by his immense ability to explicate intricate details of human thought and behavior, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberrt Camus, goal, goals, importance, important, information, language, life, meaning, natural language, profession, professional, purpose, work
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Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, advertising industry, attitude, audience, closed, communication, communications, communities, community, express, expressed, expression, expressions, free speech, group, groups, illiteracy, illiterate, in-group, language, languages, linguistic communities, linguistic community, literacy, literate, mean, meaning, means, mutual, negotiation, negotiation of meaning, open, out-group, participate, participating, participation, patron, patronage, patronise, patronize, patrons, propaganda, rational media, read, reader, readers, reading, relationship, relationships, retard media, target, target audience, targets, understanding, write, writer, writers, writing
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How to make facts
A guy named Edward Snowden was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience recently, and here is something he said: This is the context: You say you know, and — you know, let’s put it the other way: maybe you do … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, deniability, deniable, Edward Snowden, evidence, fact, facts, factual, false, gossip, information technology, journalism, journalist, language, mass media, natural language, proof, proofs, propaganda, prove, skepticism, speculation, true, undeniability, undeniable
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Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda
More or less exactly ten generations after Edmund Burke’s treatise concerning the French Revolution and roughly about twenty generations after the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, I would like to give you a small update on the state of news, … Continue reading
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The Cooperative Principle in Conversation versus the Prejudice in Silence
In the following, I understand the Internet as a massive text connected by many participants conversing with one another. Parts of the text are in close connection, and the discussion can be viewed as heated insofar as the sub-texts reference … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, data, language, natural language, propaganda, qualitative, quantitative, rational media, research, science
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