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MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

September 3, 2025 by

Mashing two words together to make ‘material world’ brings up a long list of ongoing problems, some more distressing than others. Scientific American shares this story from 2020:   Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth Artificial objects have gone from just 3 percent of the world’s biomass in 1900 to on par with […]

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WRITERS WORK TO EXPLAIN WITHOUT BEING A JERK

May 29, 2020 by

Writers work, readers read, and somewhere between the two an agreement happens. Sometimes the agreement includes a reader who stops reading while the writer keeps writing. That’s what writers do. Readers look for the next story, something more worthy of their time. Then this happened:

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FACEBOOK DATA BROKERS GET DIRTY WITH OUR MUD

March 19, 2018 by

    The numbers are too big to fathom. $42 billion loss in market value? 50 million users had their data harvested? All we want to do is post a nice cat picture, not get sucked into some weird vortex of data mining.   Don’t get me wrong, I like mining, but for the right […]

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