Notices by David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org), page 2
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David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Dec-2015 21:11:56 UTC 
David Benfell
Oh, yay. StartCom's OCSP server is down, which means firefox users get an ugly error when accessing my sites. -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Dec-2015 08:17:33 UTC
David Benfell
Bakunin made exactly the point you did about the need to decentralize power immediately. The failure to… -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Dec-2015 09:04:44 UTC
David Benfell
@kat @grubber remember that Marx was an *authoritarian* communist. No, not all bad. Marx's observations… -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Sunday, 08-Nov-2015 20:58:30 UTC
David Benfell
Doonesbury today https://cybernude.org/attachment/5177 -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Oct-2015 05:52:02 UTC
David Benfell
What about putting such a telescope at one of the poles? @clacke @bashrc -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-Oct-2015 19:24:18 UTC
David Benfell
The Ph.D. on the side of the road
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David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Oct-2015 19:14:23 UTC
David Benfell
Oh, there's definitely a 'western science' but it's different from what you think I mean.
The methodology you're speaking of is one of a few that is common to nearly all groups. The real question here is how this form of knowledge is balanced with other forms of knowledge. Typically, indigenous people give equal credence to the empirical, the traditional, and spiritual forms of knowledge. U.S. conservatives (and probably conservatives in other parts of the world) assign a higher priority to religious, traditional, or theoretical knowledge. -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Oct-2015 03:31:35 UTC
David Benfell
I don't. As a human scientist, my role is less to judge ways of knowing than it is to listen to what people take as knowledge and to understand the ways of knowing that they embrace. I don't have to agree--that's not the point--but I do need, as accurately and as fairly as possible, to represent people as they would represent themselves. That said, one of the critiques of positivism is its role in colonialism. 'Control,' it turns out does not merely refer to an experimental group in contrast to a 'treatment' group. Control was the original intent of social science research in colonized lands and this has contributed to a tension between formerly occupied peoples and western science. Other problems include the appropriation of indigenous knowledge that appears as further colonization and that the benefits of this 'research' accrue entirely to the western researcher, who publishes, who gains tenure, who is funded, and so on. Human scientists seek to … -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Oct-2015 16:46:16 UTC
David Benfell
@steve , except for one niggle, @sklaing is entirely correct here. I'll dispense with the niggle first: Where she says Democrats, I would say people on the left. Where she says Republicans, I would say conservatives. Both major parties are increasingly losing legitimacy, as we see with Democrats and Hillary Clinton, as we see with Republicans and Jeb Bush. Now, to what this thread is actually about. First, scientific method, i.e. positivism, has its own issues with what knowledge it considers acceptable, what forms of knowledge it considers acceptable, what methods of inquiry it accepts as legitimate, and an arrogance that it has a right to determine that legitimacy, when it relies on an unverifiable theory of truth (hint: there is no theory of truth that holds water, full stop, period). Second, even within the positivist paradigm, its practice seems severely flawed. One of the very basic principles of positivism--the reason science should be tran… -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Sep-2015 19:31:06 UTC
David Benfell
@deavmi @lnxw48 Agreed. It's true I went through hell getting my instance actually talking to the world … -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2015 22:38:31 UTC
David Benfell
Whoops #systemd : http://quitter.se/url/870797 lkcl writes The introduction of systemd has unilateral… -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2014 04:12:21 UTC
David Benfell
By contrast, *my* defense will be over the phone. I could do it in my bathrobe. -
David Benfell (benfell@cybernude.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Dec-2014 06:37:30 UTC
David Benfell
When the bully cries, “They’re picking on me!”
http://disunitedstates.org/?p=7044
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