for - New media landscape - dark forest - media communities - right wing media blames it on loss of the sacred - front YouTube - situational assessment - Luigi Mangione - The Stoa - Deep Humanity - also sees loss of a living principle of the sacred as a major factor in the polycrisis - but is neither right, left or religious

comment - This comment is itself also perspectival as is any. - Deep Humanity does not consider itself right, left out even religious but also see's an absence of a living principle of the sacred as playing a major role in our current polycrisis

This isn't the most relevant quote on which to annotate a link to "Towards a Constructive Technology Criticism," but it's the first, so there ya go.

for - quote - framing element - media frames climate crisis as issue for the elites to solve - but it has been a complete failure - Joe Brewer

Nazi Germany "People's Receiver"

"Volksempfänger." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Nov. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

Symbolic of what he calls, "First Generation Mass Information Warfare".

Social media as a weapon against truth

https://web.archive.org/web/20241130094952/https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-kids-are-too-soft

'the kids are too soft'. on shifting perceptions of gens, point out the obvious lack of attention to cause and effect. walking barefoot to school in the snow etc etc as if it's a sine quae non. Reminds me of a Gulag discussion, what doesn't kill you makes you harder, is actually the other way around. The hardest going survive, and more might have in conditions had been better. We see more people survive and mistake it for lack of selection and rigour, where it's the lifting of more if not all boats.

https://mementomovi.wackyneighbor.com/

https://experiments.myhub.ai/ai4communities_post

Matthew Lowry experiment

The vast majority of people browsing social media streams via the web are doing just this: spending a lot of time browsing junk content.

While much of this "junk content" is for entertainment or some means of mental and/or emotional health, at root it becomes the opiate of the masses.

Director Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene from 'Knives Out' by [[Vanity Fair]]

ᔥ Tainmere — 10/19/2024 8:33 AM at https://discord.com/channels/686053708261228577/979886299785863178/1297221163868491878

oh no, the marginalia rabbit hole goes deeper (second image comes from this video, it's ryan johnson explaining how they shot that scene with two cameras https://youtu.be/69GjaVWeGQM. It's came to my mind as a possible answer to the question because - to me - it really feels like it's the concept of marginalia, but applied to video)

Great video about listening to music "professionally"

It's about emotion & intent (context) over the theory, usually.

via u/Old_Interaction_9009 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1fqxmt0/what_type_of_typewriter_did_i_buy_got_an_estate/lpt196b/

Snarky reference to "Royale with Cheese" from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (Miramax, 1994)

Recorded Live - Flesh Eating Film Reels (1975) by [[S. S. Wilson]]

Idea of artificial intelligence using a typewriter to communicate. Cross reference HAL and Mr. Typewriter (Royal advertisement).

100% agree. Media is never going to go away, so we need to work with it, rather than go against it.

We are results of our media and environments. We take it in and it becomes part of us.

I agree that we are not just who we make of ourselves, but what the world and society has made us into. We need to take those into account if we want to learn more about not only ourselves, but about the media.

I think this is very important to remember and think about when studying media and the media technology we use. We need to remember why we are using it and who is using it.

As much as I think students need to be educated on the media, I also think they should not necessarily use it until a certain age. I saw a TikTok (not the best source, I know), speaking about how kids today do not know how to just "be bored" and need constant stimulation due to the active and constant use of media. I am curious to know if others feel the same or if there is a specific age that students should be allowed to start engaging in the media?

I think this is crazy! Yes, we need the media for a lot of different aspects of life now, but is too much media a possibility? Trust me, I am 100% guilty of spending too much time on media, but I wonder how this affects younger generations of students.

Know and Master Your Social Media Data Flow by [[Louis Gray]]

See commentary at https://boffosocko.com/2017/04/11/a-new-way-to-know-and-master-your-social-media-flow/

A Minimum Viable Ecosystem for collective intelligence by [[Mathew Lowry]]

Relation to Louis Gray's 2009 diagram/post: https://boffosocko.com/2017/04/11/a-new-way-to-know-and-master-your-social-media-flow/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Transfer_Project

see GitHub repo at https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project

The Office S4.E8 The Deposition, Nov 15, 2007<br /> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031476/

Michael is put in an awkward position when Jan sues Dunder Mifflin for wrongful termination and he is deposed as a witness.

Jan: Remember, it's not just a pattern. It's a pattern of disrespect and inappropriate behaviors.

Michael "Dis-ray." My friend Dis Ray got new specs. Dis Ray Spect. My friend In-A-Pro drives a Prius with his behind neighbor.

Jan: Does this work for you?

Michael: Yep.

Michael Scott makes up some truly incredible (bad) mnemonics to try to memorize specific phrases for a deposition.

for - definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - cacooning - the spectacle - social media - the spectacle

definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - A society where images presented by mass media / mass entertainment not only dominate - but replaces real experiences with a superficial reality that is - focused on appearances designed primarily to distract people from reality - This ultimately disconnects them from - themselves and - those around them

comment - How much does our interaction with virtual reality of - written symbols - audio - video - two dimensional images - derived from our screens both large and small affect our direct experience of life? - When people are distracted by such manufactured entertainment, they have less time to devote to important issues and connecting with real people - We can sit for hours in social isolation, ignoring our bodies need for exercise and our emotional need for real social connection - We can ignore the real crisis going on in the world and instead numb ourselves out with contrived entertainment

Ben Shneiderman's work is deeply influential in HCI; his work has assisted in creating strong connections between tech and creativity, especially when applied to fostering innovation.

his 2007 national science foundation funded report on creativity support tools, led by UMD, provides a seminal overview of the definitions of creativity at that time.

What To Do With Substack? by [[Dan Allosso]]

The "recency" problem is difficult in general in social media which tends to accentuate it versus the rest of the open web which is more of a network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aopwhHY9eUY

Demonstration of an IBM Selectric on an episode of Columbo.

Tom Hanks Reviews the Children’s Novel ‘Olivetti,’ by Allie Millington by [[Tom Hanks]]

Song: Carmelita<br /> By: Warren Zevon<br /> 1976-05-18

https://genius.com/Warren-zevon-carmelita-lyrics

This is the point in the episode where "I'm screaming" would have been so violently true of me to remark that I pulled over.

For you see... I remember hearing very passively about the rocks thing and being amused - as someone who has eaten locally-sourced gravel every day of my life and grown so much better for it - but I not heard that it was the fucking Onion.

The song's criticism on mass media is mainly related to sensationalism.

"Good" things are usually not sensational. They do not demand attention, hence why the code of known/unknown based on selectors for attention filters it out.

Reference Hans-Georg Moeller's explanations of Luhmann's mass media theory based on functionally differentiated systems theory.

Can also compare to Simone Weil's thoughts on collectives and opinion; organizations (thus most part of mass media) should not be allowed to form opinions as this is an act of the intellect, only residing in the individual. Opinion of any form meant to spread lies or parts of the truth rather than the whole truth should be disallowed according to her because truth is a foundational, even the most sacred, need for the soul.

People must be protected against misinformation.

When switching, do this only at the end of a chapter, not in media res (in the middle of action).

Also summarize the last thing that happened/got explained for an easy refresher the next time you get back.

Bib-Card? Potentially Marginaelia? Feeling more like a dedicated notebook for this. Need to work out.

Vashik does this summary of a chapter on index cards... Useful to do in a Zettelkasten, or too much effort?

The Typewriters of Naked Lunch by [[Theodore Munk]]

"Modern Family" Career Day (TV Episode 2013)

Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) begins working on a novel using a typewriter.

Green Olympia SM series. Likely an SM2 because it didn't have the SM3 tabulator stops on the back and didn't appear to have tab keys on the keyboard.

Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration by [[Justin Elliott]], [[Robert Faturechi]] and [[Alex Mierjeski]]

A critique on the Mass Media... The problem is that they want the Mass Media system to operate on the code of "True/False" rather than "Known/Unknown"... But if it were to be so, it would not be Mass Media anymore, but rather the Science System.

For Mass Media to be Mass Media it needs to be concerned with selection and filtering, to condense and make known, not to present "all the facts". Sure, they need to be concerned with truth to a certain degree, but it's not the primary priority.

This is a reflection based on my knowledge of Luhmann's theory of society as functionally differentiated systems; as explained by Hans-Georg Moeller (Carefree Wandering) on YouTube.

"SkinMedica founder Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick has previously stated that while an ingredient in the anti-wrinkle cream is derived from foreskin fibroblast, the cells are grown from a single foreskin obtained more than 20 years ago."

Johns, Adrian. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo183629196.html

What a brilliant idea!

The media is opinionized and feeds on fads; what is in the mind of the people. They survive based on attention.

The control of knowledge (or how it is portrayed) means to control the thoughts of people. This goes against freedom. See Simone Weil: the media should give factual knowledge and leave interpretation to the people. Opinion should fall to a person themselves.

This is basically critical thinking. Which is also my goal for (optimal) education: To build a society of people who think for themselves, critical thinkers; those who do not take everything for granted. The skeptics.

See also Nassim Nicolas Taleb's advice to focus on what you DON'T know rather than what you DO know.

Related to syntopical reading/learning as well. (and Charlie Munger's advice). You want to build a complete picture with a broad understanding and nuanced before formulating an opinion.

Remove bias from your judgement (especially when it comes to people or civilizations) and instead base it on logic and deep understanding.

This also relates to (national, but even local) media... How do you know that what the media portrays about something or someone is correct? Don't take it for granted, especially if it is important, and do your own research. Validity of source is important; media is often opinionized and can contain a lot of misinformation.

See also Simone Weil's thoughts on media, especially where she says misinformation spread must be stopped. It is a vital need for the soul to be presented with (factual) truth.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/17utzze/identity_of_the_red_typewriter_from_taylor_swifts/

Taylor Swift uses a Sears Cutlass in All Too Well: The Short Film.

The Sears Cutlass is very similar to the Sears Citation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/efqkpc/tom_hanks_starred_in_a_movie_where_he_uses_many/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXvxb-g0vM

You've got to love that Kinnear's character has two of these, one as a "backup".

Comment by chrisaldrich: Something about this is reminiscent of WordPress' mission to democratize publishing. We can also compare it to Facebook whose (stated) mission is to connect people, while it's actual mission is to make money by seemingly radicalizing people to the extremes of our political spectrum.

This highlights the fact that while many may look at content moderation on platforms like Facebook as removing their voices or deplatforming them in the case of people like Donald J. Trump or Alex Jones as an anti-democratic move. In fact it is not. Because of Facebooks active move to accelerate extreme ideas by pushing them algorithmically, they are actively be un-democratic. Democratic behavior on Facebook would look like one voice, one account and reach only commensurate with that person's standing in real life. Instead, the algorithmic timeline gives far outsized influence and reach to some of the most extreme voices on the platform. This is patently un-democratic.

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1335701

The typewriter used on Murder, She Wrote, starring Angela Landsbury, was a black Royal standard, probably a 1940s KMM.

for - example - social media platforms bleeding content producers - Meta - Facebook - Instagram

It is seen as a necessity for making the invisible visible, but the ramifications of world wide attention of typically invisible things is often unknown and unprecedented

This would seem to be refuted by the thesis of Poor White Trash in which there was still low brow entertainment which only intensified over time into the social media era.

this nudges me to ask the question: what sort of culture was John Waters creating in the early 1970s onward?

He was juxtaposing queer culture with that of the prurient, the comedic and the ideas of "trash" and counter-culture to subtly shift the cultural milieu in which he was living and participating. His satire and subversiveness made his content more palatable for the masses which also allowed him to make more mainstream material which still pressed the boundaries while allowing him greater access to audience.

hummm, suis pas sûre du gras en revanche un graphique

The Onion Sold by G/O Media by [[Katie Robertson]]

Media is the foundation of many businesses. Media is where attention goes to. Businesses need attention (to sell). In this sense, a business is indeed an extension of the self (similar to how media extends the self).

Business serving as an extension of the self. This, though, applies mostly for one person businesses.

Also see how media extend human beings Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

Weird. That means one user must start a topic. Whereas a topic like "Obama" could be started by multiple folks, not knowing about each other, later on discovering and interconnecting their reasoning, if they so wish.

Additionally: community-based management, ban polls.

Alternative: per-user configuration of access. Let rooms be topics on which peers discuss. A friend can see what he's friends and foafs are saying.

Der Chefredakteur der Repubblica, Maurizio Molinari, setzt auf lösungsorientierten Klimajournalismus. Artikel zu Klimathemen, die Lösungen beschreiben, würden auch von Jüngeren gelesen. Bericht über eine Diskussion zum Klimajournalismus in Mailand. https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/11/18/news/rapporto_tra_scienza_e_giornalismo_molinari_le_soluzioni_sono_il_futuro_dell_informazione_sul_cambiamento_climatico-420686220/

https://typepals.com/

Pen pals with typewriters. Pre-Twitter/Facebook social media modality.

Moderate people, not code by [[Ryan Barrett]]

This is what Ziggy uses in Australia I think - must check with his parents.

I loved Toca Boca as well. That was the first example found that I felt was worth it. Use that as my main influence in the proposal if I have not already done so. Was a crazy week.

Prelinger Archives<br /> https://archive.org/details/prelinger

ᔥDownload 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More by [[Colin Marshall]]

In 1983, at the dawn of the personal computer age, Apple Inc. in promotional film entitled "Lisa Soul Of A New Machine" touted their new computer, a 16-bit dual disk drive "personal office system", as something that would do away with "the cluttered desk, index cards, file folders, the in-out basket, [and] the calculator." (00:01)

Some of these things moved to the realm of the computer including the messy desk(top) now giving people two messy desks, a real one and a virtual one. The database-like structure of the card index also moved over, but the subjective index and its search power were substituted for a lower level concordance search.

30 years on, for most people, the value of the database idea behind the humble "index card" has long since disappeared and so it seems here as if it's "just" another piece of cluttery paper.

Appreciate the rosy framing of the juxtaposition of "past" and "future" jumping over the idea of the here and now which includes the thing they're selling, the Lisa computer. They're selling the idealized and unclear future even though it's really just today.

Introducing a network for thoughtful conversations by [[Jatan Mehta]]

This has broadly been implemented by Tumblr and is a first class feature within the IndieWeb.

Existence of an RSS feed could be used as a filter to remove large swaths of social media content which don't have them.

ShareOpenly https://shareopenly.org/<br /> built by Ben Werdmuller

Ongweso Jr., Edward. “The Miseducation of Kara Swisher: Soul-Searching with the Tech ‘Journalist.’” The Baffler, March 29, 2024. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso.

ᔥ[[Pete Brown]] in Exploding Comma

The pushing of the attention economy broadly prevents society from facing its most important problems. We're constantly distracted and are ultimately unable to focus on what is really important.

for - quote - roots of misinformation, quote - roots of fake news, key insight - roots of misinformation

key insight - roots of misinformation - (see below)

quote - roots of misinformation - we have a media that needs to survive based on - clicks and - controversy and - serving the most engaged people - so they both sides the issues - they they lift up - facts and - lies - as equivalent in order to claim no bias but - that in itself is a bias because - it gives more oxygen to the - lies and - the disinformation - that is really dangerous to our society and - we are living through the impacts of - those errors and - that malpractice -done by media in America

for - misinformation - media misinformation

https://www.vaultofculture.com/nst

Résumé vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:18:46][^2^][2]:

Cette vidéo est une interview de Sophie Audugé, présidente de SOS Éducation, qui dénonce les dérives de l'éducation sexuelle à l'école en France. Elle expose les principes et les sources de cette éducation, qui selon elle, sexualise précocement les enfants et nie leur développement cognitif et affectif. Elle alerte sur les conséquences traumatiques de ces interventions, souvent réalisées par des associations militantes sans contrôle ni consentement. Elle demande au ministère de l'Éducation nationale de clarifier sa position et de réorienter l'éducation à la sexualité vers les adolescents.

Points forts: + [00:00:00][^3^][3] Le contexte et le thème de l'interview * L'éducation sexuelle à l'école est un sujet d'actualité controversé * SOS Éducation publie un rapport sur les dérives de cette éducation + [00:00:28][^4^][4] Les dérives de l'éducation sexuelle à l'école * Des propos et des pratiques inadaptés à l'âge des enfants * Des associations militantes qui interviennent sans agrément ni contrôle * Des parents et des enseignants qui ne sont pas informés ni consultés + [00:04:06][^5^][5] Les principes et les sources de l'éducation sexuelle à l'école * Une loi de 2001 qui impose trois séances par an à tout niveau d'âge * Des standards européens de l'OMS qui promeuvent une sexualité infantile et un consentement précoce * Une stratégie de santé sexuelle française qui défend une sexualité positive et une autodétermination + [00:09:02][^6^][6] Les conséquences de l'éducation sexuelle à l'école * Un impact négatif sur le développement cognitif, affectif et psychique des enfants * Une exposition à la pornographie et à des comportements sexuels violents * Une manipulation sémantique et idéologique qui nie la réalité biologique du sexe + [00:13:53][^7^][7] Les demandes de SOS Éducation * Une clarification de la position de l'État français sur la sexualité infantile * Une réorientation de l'éducation à la sexualité vers les adolescents * Une prise en compte des connaissances scientifiques sur le développement de l'enfant

reminiscent of the quote:

Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.<br /> —John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)<br /> (see: https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw)

or the earlier version:

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper.<br /> —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, p41 <br /> (see: https://hypothes.is/a/vooPrPkwEe2r_4MIb6tlFw)

read [[Dan Allosso]] in Actual Books

Sometimes a physical copy of a book gives one information not contained in digital scans. Allosso provides the example of Charles Knowlton's book The Fruits of Philosophy which touched on abortion and was published as a tiny hand-held book which would have made it easy to pass from person to person more discretely for its time period.

Broadcast/Print are limited by time and space; is digital infinite?

Spark AI's "detailed summary" result:

Casey Newton, the founder of Platformer, announced in an email that the publication will be leaving Substack and migrating to the open-source publishing platform Ghost. Newton explained that while Substack had been a mostly happy home for Platformer, recent controversies over the platform's laissez-faire approach to content moderation led to the decision to leave. Newton cited Substack's promotion of its network of publications and its lack of proactive steps to remove hate speech and extremism as key concerns. After conducting an analysis, Platformer found several publications on Substack that supported Nazi ideologies, prompting them to question Substack's commitment to removing such content. While Substack removed some of the publications, Newton felt that the company did not address their larger concerns. Platformer's move to Ghost is seen as a way to ensure that their journalism is not associated with hate movements and to provide a better home for their readers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manton/indie-microblogging-owning-your-short-form-writing/posts/4000016?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users

Read The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090

ᔥ[[Doug Belshaw]] in I am so tired of moving platforms

via ref to Xianhang Zhang in Social Software Sundays #2 – The Evaporative Cooling Effect « Bumblebee Labs Blog [archived] who saw it

via [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] in Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Wells attempts in this essay to help mankind "pull it's mind together" for the betterment of people and the planet. How is this supposed to happen in a modern media environment which is designed to pull our minds apart as rapidly as possible?

How might the strength of capitalism be leveraged to push people back toward a common middle rather than split them apart?

Wells would really hate social media, which he seems to have perfectly defined with this statement.

One could easily replace World War I and idea of war here with social media/media and the essay broadly reads well today.

Untangling Threads by Erin Kissane

Untangling Threads by Erin Kissane on 2023-12-21

This immediately brings up the questions of how the following - founder effects and being overwhelmed by the scale of an eternal September - communism of community interactions being subverted bent for the purposes of (surveillance) capitalism (see @Graeber2011, Debt)

On the “Death” of the Typosphere, a Few Thoughts and Ideas by Ted Munk on 2018-06-02

TTSSASTT = To Type, Shoot Straight, and Speak the Truth…

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Typecasting_(blogging)

Read 2023-12-18

• for: 1% - media control

• for: climate crisis - elite control of mainstream media

• for: climate crisis - voting for global political green candidates, podcast - Planet Critical, interview - Planet Critical - James Schneider - communications officer - Progressive International, green democratic revolution, climate crisis - elite control off mainstream media

• podcast: Planet Critical

• host: Rachel Donald

• title: Overthrowing the Ruling Class: The Green Democratic Revolution

• summary

  • This is a very insightful interview with James Schneider, communications officer of Progressive International on the scales of political change required to advert our existential Poly / meta / meaning crisis.
  • James sees 3 levels of crisis
    • ordinary crisis emerging from a broken system
    • larger wicked problems that cannot be solved in isolation
    • the biggest umbrella crisis that covers all others - the last remaining decades of the fossil fuel system,
      • due to peak oil but accelerated by
      • climate crisis
  • There has to be a paradigm shift on governance, as the ruling elites are driving humanity off the cliff edge
  • This is not incremental change but a paradigm shift in governance
  • To do that, we have to adopt an anti-regime perspective, that is not reinforcing the current infective administrative state, otherwise, as COVID taught us, we will end up driving the masses to adopt hard right politicians
  • In order to establish the policies that are aligned to the science, the people and politicians have to be aligned.
  • Voting in candidates who champion policies aligned to science is a leverage point.
  • That can only be done if the citizenry is educated enough to vote for such politicians
  • So there are two parallel tasks to be done:
    • mass education program to educate citizens
    • mass program to encourage candidates aligned to climate science to run for political office

• for: media bias - insight of journalist questions

• media insight

  • the journalist's question reveals where they are situated

Brunetto Latini (1220-1294 o 1295) (Wikipedia, Español)

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Yes!

The World Wide Web takes on an ecological identity in that it is defined by the ecology of relationships exercised within, determining the "environmental" aspects of the online world. What of media ecology and its impact on earth's ecology? There are climate change ramifications simply in the use of social media itself, yet alone the influences or behaviors associated with it: here is a carbon emissions calculator for seemingly "innocent" internet use:

https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/cut-copy-paste

13:00 new media and tech still tries to solve the same ancient desires

https://g-omedia.com/

Following the Not So Online<br /> by Ryan Barrett

Competitive in what way? Grades? Jobs? Finances? Material things? Relationships?

wow...tell me more.