Of serpent-bites in logic

August 31st, 2013 by Charles Cameron

— Marcus Chown (@marcuschown) August 23, 2013

@marcuschown Ignoring the cells in the people in the city, I assume? #Recursion

— Geoff Robbins (@_TheGeoff) August 23, 2013

Continuing… I might as well give you a cluster from Teju Cole, since he’s a master…

Trying to raise awareness for the act of raising awareness. Please RT.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 23, 2013

Bezos, last week: "I sure was surprised to hear the New York Times site crashed." NYT, today: "Amazon is down? Odd." Let the games begin.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 19, 2013

HIPSTER. One who has an irrational hatred of hipsters.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 27, 2013

All words are made up words, sheeple.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 29, 2013

If I had a dollar for every time I've had a million dollar idea, I'd have (does quick mental calculation) zero dollars.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 30, 2013

I can never remember who to thank for the gift of forgetfulness.

— Teju Cole (@tejucole) August 24, 2013

Okay, here’s another one with timely reference, this time to the whole NSA business:

@doctorow how ironic that the verb "to Mirandise" may soon mean diametrically opposed things on two sides of the Pond.

— JP Rangaswami (@jobsworth) August 20, 2013

Really, this is just such a rich vein of humor and insight:

Fracking may be fracked – due to groundwater contamination. http://t.co/WL1s2q3azm

— Jon Lebkowsky (@jonl) August 23, 2013

Genius. The U.N. is now blocking its own chemical weapons investigation in #Syria. http://t.co/boTcB2QEvH …

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 23, 2013

If you can publish an article in a national newspaper comparing your country to a police state, it probably isn't anywhere near one.

— Jeremy Duns (@jeremyduns) August 25, 2013

Economics is an eye that attempts to gaze upon itself. The autopseudopanopticon.

— Dr.Phil of Economics (@DrPhilofEconomi) August 26, 2013

When Siri deemed my text a bit too lengthy #seriouslySiri? pic.twitter.com/bAJrJltWys

— Karin Bergquist (@KarinBergquist) August 28, 2013

#Guantanamo's trial of the century that may take a century to try & other random #GTMO observations from this week: http://t.co/dT4TWoGVet

— Michelle Shephard (@shephardm) August 24, 2013

Let’s go to another wordsmith — they’re often good at this stuff: