Truth & Lies
Betteridge's law of headlines
The language itself has been weaponized
Art is the one medium in which one cannot lie successfully
Classic style
People can stand for what is true, for they are already enduring it
I went to the woods
Falsehood
Deceivers and deceptions
Truth
That delicate and complex instrument
The complexity and the gray
Beautiful Evidence
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Truisms
Trees and graphs
A tree is a kind of graph, but a graph can be considerably more complex than a tree.
I have reason to believe, which for brevity’s sake I will treat elsewhere, that the most complex class of processes and structures we humans can consciously prescribe, reduces mathematically to a tree. A tree has a top, bottom, left and right. Its branches fan out from the trunk and they don’t intersect with one another. They are discrete, contiguous, identifiable objects which persist across time. Trees are Things.
Software and websites, however, reduce to arbitrarily more complex structures: they are graphs. A graph has no meaningful orientation whatsoever. No sequence, no obvious start or end—at least none that we can intuit. It is better considered not as one Thing, but as a federation of Things, like the brain or a fungus network, or perhaps a composite artifact left behind from an ongoing process, like an ant colony or human city.