Known Knowns and All the Other Ones
We cannot know everything and our only option is to trust others who know stuff that we don’t.
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Beware of Truth Sayers
We don’t all have to know all the facts and admitting ignorance is no shame but a virtue.
The Schnews.
Apologies to the Schnews that was actually a pretty good wee publication that came out of Brighton, England.
Is it OK for a woman with an opinion to host TVNZ’s Breakfast?
It’s great news that Hayley Holt has landed a cool new gig hosting TVNZ’s Breakfast show. It’s not so great that before she […]
Armstrong still pulling his punches
What does it take for Armstrong to call for Key’s resignation, the way he called for Cunliffe’s?
Bias in election coverage?
Like everyone else, I find you can get better political analysis from chicken entrails than from Claire Robinson. But it seems she can count and use a ruler and what she discovered is interesting. In last year’s election campaign, the four biggest newspapers featured 138 pictures of Key to 80 of Goff, and Key’s were twice as large on average.
Dumbing down search
Do we really want search results tailored to our mood and intelligence? Are we going to take the most powerful aggregate of information ever assembled by humanity and bend it to our cognitive biases?