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  1. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗺𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗳, 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗳𝘁

    Noma, het wereldberoemde Deense restaurant, heropent in augustus zijn deuren. Het sloot in 2024 nadat toenmalig chef-kok René Redzepi was beschuldigd van grensoverschrijdend gedrag tegen zijn personeel. Hij blijft verbonden aan het restaurant, maar krijgt een kleinere...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik

    #Noma #heropening #chef

  2. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗺𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗳, 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗳𝘁

    Noma, het wereldberoemde Deense restaurant, heropent in augustus zijn deuren. Het sloot in 2024 nadat toenmalig chef-kok René Redzepi was beschuldigd van grensoverschrijdend gedrag tegen zijn personeel. Hij blijft verbonden aan het restaurant, maar krijgt een kleinere...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik

    #Noma #heropening #chef

  3. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗺𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗳, 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗳𝘁

    Noma, het wereldberoemde Deense restaurant, heropent in augustus zijn deuren. Het sloot in 2024 nadat toenmalig chef-kok René Redzepi was beschuldigd van grensoverschrijdend gedrag tegen zijn personeel. Hij blijft verbonden aan het restaurant, maar krijgt een kleinere...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik

    #Noma #heropening #chef

  4. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗺𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗳, 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗳𝘁

    Noma, het wereldberoemde Deense restaurant, heropent in augustus zijn deuren. Het sloot in 2024 nadat toenmalig chef-kok René Redzepi was beschuldigd van grensoverschrijdend gedrag tegen zijn personeel. Hij blijft verbonden aan het restaurant, maar krijgt een kleinere...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik

    #Noma #heropening #chef

  5. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗲𝗺𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝗺𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮 𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗳, 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗳 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗳𝘁

    Noma, het wereldberoemde Deense restaurant, heropent in augustus zijn deuren. Het sloot in 2024 nadat toenmalig chef-kok René Redzepi was beschuldigd van grensoverschrijdend gedrag tegen zijn personeel. Hij blijft verbonden aan het restaurant, maar krijgt een kleinere...

    rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik

    #Noma #heropening #chef

  6. Controversy Surrounds Noma L.A. Pop-Up Amid Abuse Allegations and High Prices

    📰 Original title: Arellano: Noma's $1,500 meal is the antithesis of L.A. and the way we eat

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary: killbait.com/en/controversy-su

    #gastronomy #noma #losangeles #culinaryculture

  7. Noma chef resigns amid allegations of physical abuse of staff.

    René Redzepi, the head chef and co-founder of Noma, has announced his resignation from his internationally acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant following allegations he physically abused his staff.

    Noma has been repeatedly ranked No 1 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260312

    #ReneRedzepi #Noma #Food #Restaurants #Copenhagen #Denmark #Redzepi

  8. Noma chef resigns amid allegations of physical abuse of staff.

    René Redzepi, the head chef and co-founder of Noma, has announced his resignation from his internationally acclaimed Copenhagen restaurant following allegations he physically abused his staff.

    Noma has been repeatedly ranked No 1 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260312

    #ReneRedzepi #Noma #Food #Restaurants #Copenhagen #Denmark #Redzepi

  9. Celebrity chef René Redzepi resigns from iconic Danish restaurant he founded, Noma, after abuse allegations.

    @abc reports: "Redzepi has been dogged for years by reports of mistreatment of his staff as well as his yearslong use of unpaid interns to staff the pricy restaurant, which was ranked first on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List five times."

    flip.it/ysP0_A

    #Food #Noma #Chef #Restaurant #Redzepi

  10. Celebrity chef René Redzepi resigns from iconic Danish restaurant he founded, Noma, after abuse allegations.

    @abc reports: "Redzepi has been dogged for years by reports of mistreatment of his staff as well as his yearslong use of unpaid interns to staff the pricy restaurant, which was ranked first on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List five times."

    flip.it/ysP0_A

    #Food #Noma #Chef #Restaurant #Redzepi

  11. Fresh Fusion – Chicago Magazine

    Culinary mash-ups are nothing new in the Chicago dining scene, but here’s a fresh one: Japanese and Nordic. The two cultures intertwine at Atsumeru, the tasting-menu restaurant th…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #Atsumeru #Chicago #copenhagen #DevinDenzer #FortuneFish&Gourmet #heyday #Japanese #Japanesenews #JimChristiansen #Loon #Michelin #Minneapolis #Minnesota #news #noma #Nordic #Schwa #Temporis #WestTown
    alojapan.com/1452507/fresh-fus

  12. Fresh Fusion – Chicago Magazine

    Culinary mash-ups are nothing new in the Chicago dining scene, but here’s a fresh one: Japanese and Nordic. The two cultures intertwine at Atsumeru, the tasting-menu restaurant th…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #Atsumeru #Chicago #copenhagen #DevinDenzer #FortuneFish&Gourmet #heyday #Japanese #Japanesenews #JimChristiansen #Loon #Michelin #Minneapolis #Minnesota #news #noma #Nordic #Schwa #Temporis #WestTown
    alojapan.com/1452507/fresh-fus

  13. alojapan.com/1452507/fresh-fus Fresh Fusion – Chicago Magazine #Atsumeru #Chicago #copenhagen #DevinDenzer #FortuneFish&Gourmet #heyday #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JimChristiansen #Loon #Michelin #Minneapolis #Minnesota #news #noma #Nordic #Schwa #Temporis #WestTown Culinary mash-ups are nothing new in the Chicago dining scene, but here’s a fresh one: Japanese and Nordic. The two cultures intertwine at Atsumeru, the tasting-menu restaurant that Devin Den

  14. alojapan.com/1452507/fresh-fus Fresh Fusion – Chicago Magazine #Atsumeru #Chicago #copenhagen #DevinDenzer #FortuneFish&Gourmet #heyday #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #JimChristiansen #Loon #Michelin #Minneapolis #Minnesota #news #noma #Nordic #Schwa #Temporis #WestTown Culinary mash-ups are nothing new in the Chicago dining scene, but here’s a fresh one: Japanese and Nordic. The two cultures intertwine at Atsumeru, the tasting-menu restaurant that Devin Den

  15. История елочной гирлянды и… ее стандарта

    Что такое елочная гирлянда для вас? Деталь уюта, один из символов Нового Года или сущность, которую распутать сложнее, чем проводные наушники? А вы знаете, что за этой простенькой цепочкой из лампочек целая история? История легендарной маркетинговой кампании. История одной из первых стандартизаций в электротехнике. История борьбы за патенты и появления NOMA - компании, которая на 40 лет стала крупнейшим производителем праздничного освещения в мире. Давайте вместе узнаем много нового про этот привычный новогодний аксессуар.

    habr.com/ru/companies/beget/ar

    #гирлянда #Новый_Год #лампа #лампа_накаливания #цоколь #освещение #история_технологий #стандарт #NOMA #винтаж

  16. Merry almost-Christmas, everyone! I hope your gadget gifts don’t require prolonged firmware-update installations, repeated reboots, or lengthy tech-support interactions–but if they do, please let me know, because there might be a story in that.

    12/18/2023: X Lands in the EU’s Crosshairs Over Questionable Policies, Lax Oversight, PCMag

    Much of the reaction to the European Commission opening an investigation of the former Twitter for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act has focused on how EU law’s strict provisions over taking down illegal content invite abuses of government power. (See, for instance, my friend Mike Masnick’s dissent at Techdirt.) But the EU’s case also cites areas of misconduct outside of content moderation that speak to a comparable level of carelessness.

    12/19/2023: Google Play Store Settlement Should Get You at Least $2, PCMag

    The more time I spent reading the fine print about Google’s $700 million settlement (and looking at the fine print in its last quarterly-earnings filing that reported a cash and cash-equivalents balance almost 44 times as large as that sum), the less I liked it.

    12/21/2023: How Urban Retail Can Bounce Back, Worth

    I filed this feature about how urban retail can deal with challenges of crime and a reduced daytime-worker population back in October–before the National Retail Federation retracted a claim that organized retail crime made up almost half of all “shrink” from stores in 2021. But I hadn’t leaned on that report published in April and instead went with 2022 data on shrink in an NRF report posted in September that didn’t quantify “ORC.” Fortunately, no such qualms have surfaced since publication about the part of this piece (also available in Worth’s Q4 2023 print edition) that endorses mixed-use development to ensure that city neighborhoods don’t rise or fall depending on how many people sit down at desks in offices each morning.

    12/22/2023: Twitter Alternative Bluesky Makes Posts Publicly Viewable, PCMag

    The social platform that’s become my primary replacement for Twitter took a big step towards exiting its closed-beta status–which should be followed early next year by Bluesky letting anybody sign up, CEO Jay Graber told my Fast Company editor Harry McCracken last week.

    12/23/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E69, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast (also available in video form) for the first time since October to talk about our choices for the biggest tech stories of 2023. Since somebody else had picked Musk’s disastrous stewardship of what I sometimes like to call “Xitter,” I brought up the rise of fixed-wireless 5G home broadband.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/24/weekly-output-eu-vs-x-google-play-store-settlement-urban-retails-future-bluesky-updates-mark-vena-podcast/

    #Bluesky #BlueskyButterflyIcon #BlueskyPublicView #DSA #ElonMuskTwitter #EUDigitalServicesAct #GooglePlayServiceFees #GooglePlaySettlement #GooglePlayStoreSettlement #MarkVena #NoMa #shoplifting #sideloading #TwitterContentModeration #urbanRetail #XContentModeration

  17. Merry almost-Christmas, everyone! I hope your gadget gifts don’t require prolonged firmware-update installations, repeated reboots, or lengthy tech-support interactions–but if they do, please let me know, because there might be a story in that.

    12/18/2023: X Lands in the EU’s Crosshairs Over Questionable Policies, Lax Oversight, PCMag

    Much of the reaction to the European Commission opening an investigation of the former Twitter for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act has focused on how EU law’s strict provisions over taking down illegal content invite abuses of government power. (See, for instance, my friend Mike Masnick’s dissent at Techdirt.) But the EU’s case also cites areas of misconduct outside of content moderation that speak to a comparable level of carelessness.

    12/19/2023: Google Play Store Settlement Should Get You at Least $2, PCMag

    The more time I spent reading the fine print about Google’s $700 million settlement (and looking at the fine print in its last quarterly-earnings filing that reported a cash and cash-equivalents balance almost 44 times as large as that sum), the less I liked it.

    12/21/2023: How Urban Retail Can Bounce Back, Worth

    I filed this feature about how urban retail can deal with challenges of crime and a reduced daytime-worker population back in October–before the National Retail Federation retracted a claim that organized retail crime made up almost half of all “shrink” from stores in 2021. But I hadn’t leaned on that report published in April and instead went with 2022 data on shrink in an NRF report posted in September that didn’t quantify “ORC.” Fortunately, no such qualms have surfaced since publication about the part of this piece (also available in Worth’s Q4 2023 print edition) that endorses mixed-use development to ensure that city neighborhoods don’t rise or fall depending on how many people sit down at desks in offices each morning.

    12/22/2023: Twitter Alternative Bluesky Makes Posts Publicly Viewable, PCMag

    The social platform that’s become my primary replacement for Twitter took a big step towards exiting its closed-beta status–which should be followed early next year by Bluesky letting anybody sign up, CEO Jay Graber told my Fast Company editor Harry McCracken last week.

    12/23/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E69, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast (also available in video form) for the first time since October to talk about our choices for the biggest tech stories of 2023. Since somebody else had picked Musk’s disastrous stewardship of what I sometimes like to call “Xitter,” I brought up the rise of fixed-wireless 5G home broadband.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/24/weekly-output-eu-vs-x-google-play-store-settlement-urban-retails-future-bluesky-updates-mark-vena-podcast/

    #Bluesky #BlueskyButterflyIcon #BlueskyPublicView #DSA #ElonMuskTwitter #EUDigitalServicesAct #GooglePlayServiceFees #GooglePlaySettlement #GooglePlayStoreSettlement #MarkVena #NoMa #shoplifting #sideloading #TwitterContentModeration #urbanRetail #XContentModeration

  18. So the fuss about Noma closing. Shall we discuss, epicures? The article in the NYT raises some great points with which the industry still has not reckoned -- sagiare labor, toxic work environments, etc. Some people say good riddance to an echelon of dining that got too rarified, few too close to the sun and had its wings melted. Others, I think myself included, see a place for such experiences in the world, but decry their exclusivity and acknowledge that they are a house of cards when it comes to their economic viability. Thoughts? Good riddance? or a canary in the coal mine? #noma #finedining #hautecuisine #michelin3* #bestrestaurants nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/

  19. So the fuss about Noma closing. Shall we discuss, epicures? The article in the NYT raises some great points with which the industry still has not reckoned -- sagiare labor, toxic work environments, etc. Some people say good riddance to an echelon of dining that got too rarified, few too close to the sun and had its wings melted. Others, I think myself included, see a place for such experiences in the world, but decry their exclusivity and acknowledge that they are a house of cards when it comes to their economic viability. Thoughts? Good riddance? or a canary in the coal mine? #noma #finedining #hautecuisine #michelin3* #bestrestaurants nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/

  20. I took great pains on Sunday to explain for the Nth time why the "argument from ignorance" is false, manipulative, and arrogant. It involves circular reasoning, proof-burden shifting, self-deception, and using the presence of uncertainty--*to assert other unjustified certainty.*

    I then got a response that was a most *beautiful* boiler-plate, texbook restatement of the same argument that I had just debunked! And you've heard it all before. Here goes:

    //Science's ability to document the 'how' does not necessarily explain it, and partially explaining it doesn't illuminate the 'why.'//

    This is "we can't explain" all over again, the classic core of the argument from ignorance. It usually means "I can't explain, because I haven't studied the subject in depth, and I have no idea what I'm talking about."

    What makes anyone think that there IS a "why" to the universe? Everything that happens has a cause, but not necessarily a purpose. Saying we don't know something's "purpose" is a straw man through and through. We *can't* know purpose because purpose implies a mind we can't read, and represents a not-so-subtle argument for a "creator."

    Take the question "Why does the Sun exist?" This demonstrates this absurdity of intent. Unless "gawd" directly *willed* the Sun into existence with a wave of their hand, it's there for the same reason as any other star. Why does any star in the universe exist? Because gravity coalesced gas and ignited a fusion reaction. Why did that happen? For the same reason you might climb a mountain--because it was there.

    //there are notable gaps in the historical record//

    So, what? Another core reference to ignorance. If there's a gap, that means a GAP. You don't get to fill it with whatever you want, or assert that the absence of knowledge somehow supports other knowledge we don't have. This is the blind leading the blind.

    //the record is being rewritten constantly as new evidence comes to light//

    Which is it? Are there gaps, or is the entire record suspect? You see how this is used to undermine the totality of science? Not only are we missing data, in this view, but the data we do have is supposedly suspect. And it's not suspect because of some specific error in a given experiment or paper this person discovered. That would take work. According to these buffoons, all scientific data is suspect--IN GENERAL.

    Constant revision is *science functioning as designed.* Revisions to science ONLY happen when someone shoulders an extremely heavy burden of proof. It's not enough merely to question existing evidence. When challenging an existing theory, you have to provide *better* evidence, along with a new theory to explain it--and that's the tough part. That's why gaps in our knowledge persist, because probing those gaps is difficult.

    And it's also why evidence that has stood the test of time will usually continue to do so. The way science advances usually has to do with discovering data that requires refinements of earlier theories, such as how Einstein's Relativity modified Newtonian mechanics. Nothing Newton discovered was overturned. His laws remain an excellent approximation for how matter behaves, except at near-light (relativistic) speeds.

    //any scientist that does not accept the possibility of missing evidence cannot claim they understand the limits of possible knowledge.//

    It's far worse than that: Any "scientist" who does not accept the possibility of missing evidence IS NOT A SCIENTIST.

    //Absent evidence of intent....we are likely not going to get closer to the truth, because it's ineffable.//

    There it is again, the insistence on knowing intent, or the "why." What makes anyone think that there is a "why" to the universe at all? (This is getting repetitive). "Ineffable" is one of the worst words in the English language. (Someone used to run a blog called "Effing the Ineffable." HA) The problem with the word is that it's obscurantist. It means "can't be known, described, or expressed." Once again this is a reference to the core of the argument from ignorance. "We can't know THIS--therefore we know THAT (which I just made up)."

    //I simply am not going to accept that because [evidence of] something is missing means it isn't possible.//

    Of course an infinite number of things are possible. The question is, WHICH THINGS are true or likely to be true??? And that's why evidence is all-important. Science doesn't rule things out, it rules them IN. With evidence! Once again this takes the form "We don't know that _______ is NOT true, so that means it's possibly true."

    According to the argument from ignorance, you can fill in the blank with anything you want! Purple Chupacabras? Can't prove they don't exist. If they don't exist on Earth, they could exist on some other planet, right? Folks, this is unforgivable self-dishonesty. Until you find the purple Chupacabra, there's nothing to talk about. Then you could shift the criteria to orange Chupacabras we "can't prove don't exist," and on it goes.

    Bertrand Russell's famous teapot thought experiment demonstrated the absurdity of this tactic.

    //I know that many believe they know the limits of what is true. I do not.//

    This is frankly the most arrogant form of the argument from ignorance. Because if you finish the thought what it really means is "I refuse to be held accountable to the body of work produced by the scientific method, or for any standards of evidence or burden of proof it imposes."

    //The history of scientific investigation is one of the frequent need to reset and recalibrate what "truth" actually is.//

    Yes, that's abundantly clear as previously stipulated. And that recalibration is done according to the strictest rules of evidence--not according to personal doubt. Doubt is effortless. Proof is difficult.

    I'm sad to say that I've found that the "argument from ignorance" forms the core of the most stubborn and widely-held popular epistemology. You've heard all this from ignorant peopple, but also from so-called educated people who aren't trained in the probabilistic methods of the hard sciences.

    The reason it's so popular is because it allows people to feel that their opinion "might" someday be proven true, even if it contradicts every single bit of current knowledge (pointy-headed, know-it-all) scientists spent centuries accumulating.

    It's a total intellectual "get ouf of jail free" card.

    This is the apocalypse Carl Sagan warned us about. It's all happening just like he said. Because of this mental rot, we're losing our ability to sustain a technological civilization. Because we forgot the rigor and mental discipline that got us here in the first place.

    Do better, hoomons!

    #ignorance #scientificmethod #logicalfallacy #burdenofproof #god #purpose #NOMA #universe #reality #teleology #creationism #argumentfromignorance #godofthegaps #sagan #russellsteapot

  21. I took great pains on Sunday to explain for the Nth time why the "argument from ignorance" is false, manipulative, and arrogant. It involves circular reasoning, proof-burden shifting, self-deception, and using the presence of uncertainty--*to assert other unjustified certainty.*

    I then got a response that was a most *beautiful* boiler-plate, texbook restatement of the same argument that I had just debunked! And you've heard it all before. Here goes:

    //Science's ability to document the 'how' does not necessarily explain it, and partially explaining it doesn't illuminate the 'why.'//

    This is "we can't explain" all over again, the classic core of the argument from ignorance. It usually means "I can't explain, because I haven't studied the subject in depth, and I have no idea what I'm talking about."

    What makes anyone think that there IS a "why" to the universe? Everything that happens has a cause, but not necessarily a purpose. Saying we don't know something's "purpose" is a straw man through and through. We *can't* know purpose because purpose implies a mind we can't read, and represents a not-so-subtle argument for a "creator."

    Take the question "Why does the Sun exist?" This demonstrates this absurdity of intent. Unless "gawd" directly *willed* the Sun into existence with a wave of their hand, it's there for the same reason as any other star. Why does any star in the universe exist? Because gravity coalesced gas and ignited a fusion reaction. Why did that happen? For the same reason you might climb a mountain--because it was there.

    //there are notable gaps in the historical record//

    So, what? Another core reference to ignorance. If there's a gap, that means a GAP. You don't get to fill it with whatever you want, or assert that the absence of knowledge somehow supports other knowledge we don't have. This is the blind leading the blind.

    //the record is being rewritten constantly as new evidence comes to light//

    Which is it? Are there gaps, or is the entire record suspect? You see how this is used to undermine the totality of science? Not only are we missing data, in this view, but the data we do have is supposedly suspect. And it's not suspect because of some specific error in a given experiment or paper this person discovered. That would take work. According to these buffoons, all scientific data is suspect--IN GENERAL.

    Constant revision is *science functioning as designed.* Revisions to science ONLY happen when someone shoulders an extremely heavy burden of proof. It's not enough merely to question existing evidence. When challenging an existing theory, you have to provide *better* evidence, along with a new theory to explain it--and that's the tough part. That's why gaps in our knowledge persist, because probing those gaps is difficult.

    And it's also why evidence that has stood the test of time will usually continue to do so. The way science advances usually has to do with discovering data that requires refinements of earlier theories, such as how Einstein's Relativity modified Newtonian mechanics. Nothing Newton discovered was overturned. His laws remain an excellent approximation for how matter behaves, except at near-light (relativistic) speeds.

    //any scientist that does not accept the possibility of missing evidence cannot claim they understand the limits of possible knowledge.//

    It's far worse than that: Any "scientist" who does not accept the possibility of missing evidence IS NOT A SCIENTIST.

    //Absent evidence of intent....we are likely not going to get closer to the truth, because it's ineffable.//

    There it is again, the insistence on knowing intent, or the "why." What makes anyone think that there is a "why" to the universe at all? (This is getting repetitive). "Ineffable" is one of the worst words in the English language. (Someone used to run a blog called "Effing the Ineffable." HA) The problem with the word is that it's obscurantist. It means "can't be known, described, or expressed." Once again this is a reference to the core of the argument from ignorance. "We can't know THIS--therefore we know THAT (which I just made up)."

    //I simply am not going to accept that because [evidence of] something is missing means it isn't possible.//

    Of course an infinite number of things are possible. The question is, WHICH THINGS are true or likely to be true??? And that's why evidence is all-important. Science doesn't rule things out, it rules them IN. With evidence! Once again this takes the form "We don't know that _______ is NOT true, so that means it's possibly true."

    According to the argument from ignorance, you can fill in the blank with anything you want! Purple Chupacabras? Can't prove they don't exist. If they don't exist on Earth, they could exist on some other planet, right? Folks, this is unforgivable self-dishonesty. Until you find the purple Chupacabra, there's nothing to talk about. Then you could shift the criteria to orange Chupacabras we "can't prove don't exist," and on it goes.

    Bertrand Russell's famous teapot thought experiment demonstrated the absurdity of this tactic.

    //I know that many believe they know the limits of what is true. I do not.//

    This is frankly the most arrogant form of the argument from ignorance. Because if you finish the thought what it really means is "I refuse to be held accountable to the body of work produced by the scientific method, or for any standards of evidence or burden of proof it imposes."

    //The history of scientific investigation is one of the frequent need to reset and recalibrate what "truth" actually is.//

    Yes, that's abundantly clear as previously stipulated. And that recalibration is done according to the strictest rules of evidence--not according to personal doubt. Doubt is effortless. Proof is difficult.

    I'm sad to say that I've found that the "argument from ignorance" forms the core of the most stubborn and widely-held popular epistemology. You've heard all this from ignorant peopple, but also from so-called educated people who aren't trained in the probabilistic methods of the hard sciences.

    The reason it's so popular is because it allows people to feel that their opinion "might" someday be proven true, even if it contradicts every single bit of current knowledge (pointy-headed, know-it-all) scientists spent centuries accumulating.

    It's a total intellectual "get ouf of jail free" card.

    This is the apocalypse Carl Sagan warned us about. It's all happening just like he said. Because of this mental rot, we're losing our ability to sustain a technological civilization. Because we forgot the rigor and mental discipline that got us here in the first place.

    Do better, hoomons!

    #ignorance #scientificmethod #logicalfallacy #burdenofproof #god #purpose #NOMA #universe #reality #teleology #creationism #argumentfromignorance #godofthegaps #sagan #russellsteapot

  22. My new post: The Deadly Disease You Never Heard About — And How You Can Help via @forbes forbes.com/sites/judystone/202 Thanks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)! Mark Sherlock, Claire Jeantet #NTDs #noma #WorldHealthOrganization

  23. … un #séquoiagéant communiste ; le #NOMA de #stephenjaygould ; #Hulk ; les liens entre humains et #dauphins, pour la pêche, et avec les #plantessauvages pour l’alimentation ; les précurseurs arabes de la pensée évolutionniste. l’abbé Dicquemare, naturaliste normand du 18e siècle ; les nids d’oiseaux de la #carottesauvage (#Daucuscarotta) ; des #coraux aux petits soins de leurs #algues symbiotiques et les origines géologiques de nos #terroirs

  24. Merry almost-Christmas, everyone! I hope your gadget gifts don’t require prolonged firmware-update installations, repeated reboots, or lengthy tech-support interactions–but if they do, please let me know, because there might be a story in that.

    12/18/2023: X Lands in the EU’s Crosshairs Over Questionable Policies, Lax Oversight, PCMag

    Much of the reaction to the European Commission opening an investigation of the former Twitter for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act has focused on how EU law’s strict provisions over taking down illegal content invite abuses of government power. (See, for instance, my friend Mike Masnick’s dissent at Techdirt.) But the EU’s case also cites areas of misconduct outside of content moderation that speak to a comparable level of carelessness.

    12/19/2023: Google Play Store Settlement Should Get You at Least $2, PCMag

    The more time I spent reading the fine print about Google’s $700 million settlement (and looking at the fine print in its last quarterly-earnings filing that reported a cash and cash-equivalents balance almost 44 times as large as that sum), the less I liked it.

    12/21/2023: How Urban Retail Can Bounce Back, Worth

    I filed this feature about how urban retail can deal with challenges of crime and a reduced daytime-worker population back in October–before the National Retail Federation retracted a claim that organized retail crime made up almost half of all “shrink” from stores in 2021. But I hadn’t leaned on that report published in April and instead went with 2022 data on shrink in an NRF report posted in September that didn’t quantify “ORC.” Fortunately, no such qualms have surfaced since publication about the part of this piece (also available in Worth’s Q4 2023 print edition) that endorses mixed-use development to ensure that city neighborhoods don’t rise or fall depending on how many people sit down at desks in offices each morning.

    12/22/2023: Twitter Alternative Bluesky Makes Posts Publicly Viewable, PCMag

    The social platform that’s become my primary replacement for Twitter took a big step towards exiting its closed-beta status–which should be followed early next year by Bluesky letting anybody sign up, CEO Jay Graber told my Fast Company editor Harry McCracken last week.

    12/23/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E69, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast (also available in video form) for the first time since October to talk about our choices for the biggest tech stories of 2023. Since somebody else had picked Musk’s disastrous stewardship of what I sometimes like to call “Xitter,” I brought up the rise of fixed-wireless 5G home broadband.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/24/weekly-output-eu-vs-x-google-play-store-settlement-urban-retails-future-bluesky-updates-mark-vena-podcast/

    #Bluesky #BlueskyButterflyIcon #BlueskyPublicView #DSA #ElonMuskTwitter #EUDigitalServicesAct #GooglePlayServiceFees #GooglePlaySettlement #GooglePlayStoreSettlement #MarkVena #NoMa #shoplifting #sideloading #TwitterContentModeration #urbanRetail #XContentModeration

  25. Merry almost-Christmas, everyone! I hope your gadget gifts don’t require prolonged firmware-update installations, repeated reboots, or lengthy tech-support interactions–but if they do, please let me know, because there might be a story in that.

    12/18/2023: X Lands in the EU’s Crosshairs Over Questionable Policies, Lax Oversight, PCMag

    Much of the reaction to the European Commission opening an investigation of the former Twitter for alleged violations of the Digital Services Act has focused on how EU law’s strict provisions over taking down illegal content invite abuses of government power. (See, for instance, my friend Mike Masnick’s dissent at Techdirt.) But the EU’s case also cites areas of misconduct outside of content moderation that speak to a comparable level of carelessness.

    12/19/2023: Google Play Store Settlement Should Get You at Least $2, PCMag

    The more time I spent reading the fine print about Google’s $700 million settlement (and looking at the fine print in its last quarterly-earnings filing that reported a cash and cash-equivalents balance almost 44 times as large as that sum), the less I liked it.

    12/21/2023: How Urban Retail Can Bounce Back, Worth

    I filed this feature about how urban retail can deal with challenges of crime and a reduced daytime-worker population back in October–before the National Retail Federation retracted a claim that organized retail crime made up almost half of all “shrink” from stores in 2021. But I hadn’t leaned on that report published in April and instead went with 2022 data on shrink in an NRF report posted in September that didn’t quantify “ORC.” Fortunately, no such qualms have surfaced since publication about the part of this piece (also available in Worth’s Q4 2023 print edition) that endorses mixed-use development to ensure that city neighborhoods don’t rise or fall depending on how many people sit down at desks in offices each morning.

    12/22/2023: Twitter Alternative Bluesky Makes Posts Publicly Viewable, PCMag

    The social platform that’s become my primary replacement for Twitter took a big step towards exiting its closed-beta status–which should be followed early next year by Bluesky letting anybody sign up, CEO Jay Graber told my Fast Company editor Harry McCracken last week.

    12/23/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E69, Mark Vena

    I joined my industry-analyst friend’s podcast (also available in video form) for the first time since October to talk about our choices for the biggest tech stories of 2023. Since somebody else had picked Musk’s disastrous stewardship of what I sometimes like to call “Xitter,” I brought up the rise of fixed-wireless 5G home broadband.

    https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/24/weekly-output-eu-vs-x-google-play-store-settlement-urban-retails-future-bluesky-updates-mark-vena-podcast/

    #Bluesky #BlueskyButterflyIcon #BlueskyPublicView #DSA #ElonMuskTwitter #EUDigitalServicesAct #GooglePlayServiceFees #GooglePlaySettlement #GooglePlayStoreSettlement #MarkVena #NoMa #shoplifting #sideloading #TwitterContentModeration #urbanRetail #XContentModeration