Hiking and Hamas

Epistemology and communication and conflict online and irl

Greetings grizzled Smokestack veterans and a warm welcome to newbies arriving through yesterday’s twitter discourse on the politics of hiking. Ready to get weird?

1) Academic writing, headline lies, alienated labor, commodified nature, conceptual arsenals, actual arsenals, and all the evils of hiking:

(Here’s that prior post No Magic Words if you’re interested.)

2) The science of belief, how we know what we know, things we know that just ain’t so, backing opposed sides for identical reasons, attending to atrocities, and judging justly:

3) Hamas might be worse than ISIS. But even then wouldn’t it still be bad for the American-Israeli military behemoth to butcher thousands of Palestinian women and children?

Thank you for your interest friends and enemies and internet strangers.