Posted on December 31, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
Posted on November 14, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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I will never cease to be baffled by the pride that a good chunk of humanity seems to take in submitting to preistcraft. By preistcraft I do not necessarily mean religion. In this broadened definition I include many ideologies and yes…among them I dare…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedTags: Blogs, Essays, Rants
Posted on March 12, 2019
by Alex V. Weir
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It’s noble to admit when you don’t know. But, phrases like ‘I am not scientist’ can be nothing more than a cop out. It’s sister ‘You are not a scientist’ is often nothing more than an ad hominem. Both phrases…
Posted on September 3, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Axon the company that was once Taser is just that a company – a corporate entity. Yet, its cloud holds police data which as far as I understand is subject to public interest and access. Whether or not the data is actually ‘public’ is…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Articles, Axon, Current Events, Dana Goodyear, Economics, Essays, News, Policing, Politics, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, VieVue
Posted on August 22, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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One of my favorite articles on this topic is David J. Ley’s ‘No, Dopamine is not addictive.’Which is published in Psychology Today. There are however deeper and more complex perils at play in the age of information. The reason that I find the aforementioned…
Posted on June 30, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Free speech is life. Allow me to elaborate. Breathing is not considered a right. It’s not considered in the same category as rights, privileges, and all the myriad distinctions thereof. No. Even prisoners and slaves are unquestionably reserved the right to draw air. Certainly,…
Tag: Essays
Plastic Rose – The Changing Nature of Memory
Posted on December 31, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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Isn’t it interesting or perhaps more fittingly alarming that we have precious few markers of passage? A letter is such a finite thing. Perhaps no more finite than a tweet but certainly more tangibly finite. Because the leaf, the bit of tree, it will…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Commentary, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Cognition, Essays, Ideas, Memory, Mortality, Musings, Time
Preistcraft
Posted on November 14, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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I will never cease to be baffled by the pride that a good chunk of humanity seems to take in submitting to preistcraft. By preistcraft I do not necessarily mean religion. In this broadened definition I include many ideologies and yes…among them I dare…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Humor, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedTags: Blogs, Essays, Rants
“I am not a scientist…”
Posted on March 12, 2019 by Alex V. Weir
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It’s noble to admit when you don’t know. But, phrases like ‘I am not scientist’ can be nothing more than a cop out. It’s sister ‘You are not a scientist’ is often nothing more than an ad hominem. Both phrases…
Category: Alex Weir, Current Events, Philosophy, Social Commentary, The Fractal Journal, UncategorizedTags: Essays, Science
‘Don’t Datamine Me Bro’ – Taser, Axon, Skynet? (Part III)
Posted on September 3, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Axon the company that was once Taser is just that a company – a corporate entity. Yet, its cloud holds police data which as far as I understand is subject to public interest and access. Whether or not the data is actually ‘public’ is…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Articles, Axon, Current Events, Dana Goodyear, Economics, Essays, News, Policing, Politics, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, VieVue
Pop Psych Perils
Posted on August 22, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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One of my favorite articles on this topic is David J. Ley’s ‘No, Dopamine is not addictive.’Which is published in Psychology Today. There are however deeper and more complex perils at play in the age of information. The reason that I find the aforementioned…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, UncategorizedTags: Essays, Evolutionary Psychology, Pop Psych, Social Commentary
More than a Right
Posted on June 30, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Free speech is life. Allow me to elaborate. Breathing is not considered a right. It’s not considered in the same category as rights, privileges, and all the myriad distinctions thereof. No. Even prisoners and slaves are unquestionably reserved the right to draw air. Certainly,…
Category: Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Essays, Ethics, Free Speech, Human Rights, Politics, Public Discourse, Rights
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