Comments on: NYT Night http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: This Week in Reaction | The Reactivity Place http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-52515 Fri, 16 May 2014 16:03:43 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-52515 […] Nicholas Wade purged? OK, maybe “preemptively auto-purged” is more like it. I was kind of hoping for an […]

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50478 Mon, 12 May 2014 04:12:46 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50478 Unconfirmed, or unapproved?

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50476 Mon, 12 May 2014 04:04:03 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50476 Could be. I had no idea a “Colbert coinage” even existed.

]]> By: Wyrd http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50450 Mon, 12 May 2014 02:36:10 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50450 “‘Truthiness’ is an interesting word.”

Yeah, but Colbert is a Cathedral weenie.

“Doesn’t it basically mean an explicit attachment to honesty, beyond the threshold of social awkwardness?”

Colbert around the time of advocating Truthiness urged his viewers to storm Wikipedia in order to fudge-up articles related to Africa. Hmmm….

“It’s Will Wilkinson anticipating the dark Enlightenment, and advising against it (on popularity grounds).”

That dude needs far more eye-related superpowers to impress.

]]> By: easytolo http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50428 Mon, 12 May 2014 00:56:26 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50428 As far as I’m aware its most widespread meaning is the Colbert coinage, something that feels true in your gut but not in fact.

]]> By: Aaron http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50421 Mon, 12 May 2014 00:22:20 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50421 @easytolo

I thought it was a Colbertism that meant “plausible but unconfirmed rumor”.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50400 Sun, 11 May 2014 23:19:05 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50400 Ironically — to say the least — it looks as if the Daily Caller has been making stuff up. Sheesh.

]]> By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50397 Sun, 11 May 2014 23:03:37 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50397 ‘Truthiness’ is an interesting word. Doesn’t it basically mean an explicit attachment to honesty, beyond the threshold of social awkwardness? It’s Will Wilkinson anticipating the dark Enlightenment, and advising against it (on popularity grounds).

]]> By: easytolo http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50395 Sun, 11 May 2014 22:55:05 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50395 ‘Truthiness’? Is that really the word you wanted to use there?

]]> By: AWC http://www.xenosystems.net/nyt-night/#comment-50388 Sun, 11 May 2014 22:05:19 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2601#comment-50388 Actually, it seems that the Daily Caller just invented the entire story out of thin air.

See updates: http://occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/roundup-of-book-reviews-of-nicholas-wades-a-troublesome-inheritance/

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