Informed Dissent

This is my blog where I comment on generic cultural and political issues with a little bit of generic life advice that isn't particularly personal.

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Doublespeak

The doublespeak of American propaganda fascinates me. A significant portion of the role of the American State Department is manufacturing pr...

Friday, May 22, 2020

What's your null hypothesis?

You know that one of your friends is reading a book that you lent him late last week, and that he usually returns the books you lend him af...

Identities Part 1 (Why fictitious identities are important)

I had a very unhappy childhood. Until I started talking openly about it, and in particular, until I started telling people that I thought my...

Retraction of previous complaint

[Context: I wrote this post immediately before getting my only job as a software developer at a place that I thought was actually good to wo...

Nakedness

[I wrote this in 2015 and left it as a draft until today.] I've never felt as exposed as I have recently. This is probably the bigge...

Newsflash: In Sports, Winners Cheat

Context: This is an essay I wrote at the time when I decided to quit watching sports because watching sports makes me angry. I haven't f...

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Senescence

The first person to live to be a thousand years old will have been specifically bio-engineered for such longevity, clonally descended (with ...

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About Me

Austin Feller: My politically-oriented blog, Informed Dissent, has been my primary blog in the past when I made a habit of blogging. I'm intending to post more to my professionally-oriented blog, Bad Code Considered Harmful, going forward. I'm a mathematician by education, a software developer by professional experience, and an artist, musician, and author by nature. I also read a lot. You can contact me at afeller08@gmail.com

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