For most of us, all by the light of the accident of DNA and migration and the forces in history.

Somewhere else. Not here. Lots of somewheres, not here. Weeping. Numb. Alive?

https://g.co/kgs/2sFsQQ

https://nowcomment.com/documents/84281#.WbKuc9N97UJ Another way to annotate video.

Something adjacent to this by the late Graham Nuthall,"It really cut me when I found out that there were things happening in the classroom between the children and I didn't know it was happening...they were talking in a voice I could not hear." The Hidden Lives of Learners (12)

Stringing quotes together as nuggets of argument. Asking quotes to speak for themselves. Better, more particular sources needed.

Sentences stand alone and don't work as a team. Unlike the one in the gif below.

This is a fascinating discussion? What are the next steps in the process of annotation?Of course, the first level of notes is an important part of the conversation, but is a deeper and wider version of the conversation implied here? Some signals amped up, some damped down? Where happens next as a flashmob? Love how hypothes.is is such a powerful tool for connected learning. Further connections?

Quit your Trabecking ;-)

Apprenticeship invokes reciprocated duties and rights. You really need these to flow both ways or you get master/slave, colonizer/colonized relationships. These asymmetric power relationships are easy to abuse.

This has so many ways of working.

Or un-troduce yourself. You are invited.

Would love to collaborate with someone doing a mixed media presentation that visualizes these questions.

It's something I might do if it was a public person making public utterances.

Yes, but only as it applies to those who agree to be bound by it. Hashtag wars? Not really seeing this yet.

Yes

Governed by the idea of usufruct. We can use the fruit of the tree but we can't own the tree. And we must not use the fruit exclusively.

they are part of the commons

Mastodon has been a convivial tool for me, but not for anything having to do with #digciz.

I felt this way the first week in #digciz and it was downhill from there on except for a few blips on the heart monitor.

Acknowledging others as being on the same boat in the same storm and working to make sure those others understand that.<br> Not ignoring or worse giving a little begrudging flick of attention. Oh my, that is the worst.

Worthy of a page note: https://youtu.be/RYlCVwxoL_g

What is a persona? A mask? Purposeful or just practical?

Should they end? Maybe we should consider the "long tail" here? Or is that game worth the candle? A good facilitating citizen might just cast their eye to those who participated and continue to encourage a connection.

Not really. Not really virtual. Ghostly, yes. Transparent, no. Opaque? Mos' def'

Marginaliacs, the marginalized, precarity to the edge.

The arrow of time is a bitch. You can't go home again. Suffering is often our only recourse.

Yes, revising the very idea of a lesson. V. Rao notes:

34/ There is perhaps a distinction between a n00b and an expert, but it is highly localized around specific corners of the rhizome. You can go from n00b to expert and back to n00b in 2 steps. 44/ If you can only navigate well-paved paths and clean, well-lit spaces, you'll likely spend a lot of time in low-value, or even futile, ritualized behaviors while getting nothing done.

45/ You must be willing to adopt an opportunistic approach to navigating complexity, and switch from ugly hack to elegant beauty, from amateurish fumble to expert flourish, in an instant.

Free speech zones

I 'won't' your existence. I am 'notting' your existence. as always for a purpose.

virtual killing...sounds a lot like ritual killing.

A word "it". A language "it". Does the cat create an 'it' just before she pounces on the mouse? Is language a way to transmogrify? For what purpose do we turn stuff into "its",

I look forward to learning what "toughest" means--as a character attribute or as a teacher characterization expressing how difficult Abaham was to 'teach' or...?

0, 1, and 'don't care'.

I am surprised that someone who puts forth such a pugilistic attitude on her webpage could be so thin-skinned about public annotation. She says she is: a troublemaker, a rabble rouser, picks fights on the internet, and says she's not afraid. Yet...she begs to be left alone, our own edtech Greta Garbo. Maybe her problem is not hypothes.is but instead hypocri.sy?

Here is what I wrote in the comment section:

Anyone who shuts down their comments or margins because of a troll has just enabled that particular troll to rob us all of the benefits of that channel.

I love how in discussions I have had that the commenting behavior in the margins is characterized as "non-consensual annotation". Annotation as rape. What a concept. That is concept creep of the first magnitude and an outrage to all the folks who are just wanting to share and talk and learn.

I consider publicly published materials to be part of the intellectual commons and as such useable, remixable, quotable, and annotateable by all. To nix comments and annotations is the same as enclosing the commons. That was the death of freehold agriculture in England and it is the death of the internet in the 21st century. We are closer every day to that.

What bothers me is that those who are trolled do not call on their communities for the mutual aid they should be able to expect. I have belonged to forums that have been harassed by trollish members and those trolls have gotten their asses handed back to them by the community. Sometimes in ways both unexpected and delightfully karmic. I am happy to slide in spikes up in aid to any legit member of my community.

But here's the problem--I suspect that rather than engage and rally against the trolls we would rather just ban any activity that might be 'irksome' in the slightest. The internet is an agora, a marketplace to share and defend and find the best ideas. It is a place for the evolution of views. How can we know the difference between trolls and gadflies if we don't have a place to share together.

As a resident of flyover country and the rough and tumble precariat of Trumpland, I suspect that shutting off incoming channels is just another way to secure the echo chamber rather than to engage, to ask for help from the 'rough' folk out there like me. And make no mistake I know some shit about 'rough'. I am the kinda guy you really want to have your back, but folks who cancel these open channels will never know that. Why? Because the writer never asked for the mutual aid that is her due. We all have obligations as public writers, but we are also also owed security and mutual aid from our communities.

I feel abandoned when someone removes commenting and annotating, especially if I (like you) have invested not only money but more importantly time and attention in that writer. I see it more and more especially among those who seem to have gotten above their "raisings". Too good to reciprocate, too important to have to take any risks in the wild.

Ironically, when you use a hypothes.is link (via. hypothesis....) it knocks out the commenting. Maybe just for me. Interesting.

A new map: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-106-work-no-play-feat-miya-tokumitsu-tim-faust-5717

Well...yes and no. A hedgerow is still a boundary even if you have seen a Google Earth view of the world. Our place on the planet is still bounded even if you have seen the big blue pebble from the moon. And I might argue that the boundaries one sees are always more permeable and in flux than McLuhan intimates here. YesNoWrongRight.

what does this mean?

yes. in practice?

Rajeev Mahajan, adding Entropy since 1994 Answered Apr 7 Suppose you are concerned with determining what the most visited parks in a city are. One idea is to take a momentary snapshot: to see how many people are this moment in park A, how many are in park B and so on. Another idea is to look at one individual (or few of them) and to follow him for a certain period of time, e.g. a year. Then, you observe how often the individual is going to park A, how often he is going to park B and so on.

Thus, you obtain two different results: one statistical analysis over the entire ensemble of people at a certain moment in time, and one statistical analysis for one person over a certain period of time. The first one may not be representative for a longer period of time, while the second one may not be representative for all the people.

Ergodicity is usually described in terms of objective properties of an ensemble of objects.

The importance of ergodicity becomes manifest when you think about how we all infer various things, how we draw some conclusion about something while having information about something else.

For example, one goes once to a restaurant and likes the fish and next time he goes to the same restaurant and orders chicken, confident that the chicken will be good. Why is he confident? Or one observes that a newspaper has printed some inaccurate information at one point in time and infers that the newspaper is going to publish inaccurate information in the future. Why are these inferences ok, while others such as "more crimes are committed by black persons than by white persons, therefore each individual black person is not to be trusted" are not ok?

The answer is that the ensemble of articles published in a newspaper is more or less ergodic, while the ensemble of black people is not at all ergodic.

Or take an even clearer example: In an election each party gets some percentage of votes, party A gets a%, party B gets b% and so on. However, this does not mean that over the course of their lives each individual votes with party A in a% of elections, with B in b% of elections and so on.

A similar problem is faced by scientists in general when they are trying to infer some general statement from various particular experiments. When is a generalization correct and when it isn't? The answer concerns ergodicity. If the generalization is done towards an ergodic ensemble, than it has a good chance of being correct.

"DevOps is “a cross-disciplinary community of practice dedicated to the study of building, evolving and operating rapidly-changing resilient systems at scale.”"

anti-fragility?

You spread bets across things you can't predict. So what are the bets you can make around the inexorability of rising tuition or of the number of majors in English rising or falling or that student load debt will be forgiven.

General instructions on betting on the future

Can someone explain this to me? Has to do with variance. Not assume that variance is zero? If variance is zero, then any choice is good as any other since they all result in the same 'answer'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puIstclBcO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQtANk9IJc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9ZkYViEIs

Here's hoping that you are not offended by non-consensual annotation

link on this page won't load. Wanted to look at the sources referenced in this chapter.

I have heard the same argument made against Christianity.

Isn't this more of a double bind than a paradox?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/sangita-shresthova

How much did this move the needle? How can we measure how much of difference it made?

This is a big ask. It goes well beyond the substructure of teaching how to sum up, analyze and evaluate these complex ideas. We are all responsible. Is it irresponsible to put all of this on academics. Isn't it an academic's goal to share the burden and hope of citizenship with everyone? And isn't it a grave danger to rely on the expertise of academics? I am not seeing all that many profiles in courage among the tenured. Why not? Because the bread-being buttered- is hard to turn down.

The Pedagogy of Woke always prompts my big question: now what? Listening to the suffering hardly seems enough, but pragmatically speaking even this seems like a burden on top of the five classes I teach each semester. Hypocrisy is baked into the DNA of that system. Good to see Ian is considering (at least in the most general terms) the "now what?" Which begs the question: now what specifically?

I save my droppings for the margins, the humanure for the hedgerows. I am the humanure. I become the hedgerow. That is where I hide. In nature. Eventually, inevitably, human behavior will extinguish itself if we continue as is. Then I will rise up from my hedgerow burrow and live again.

Same ol' impermeabe same ol'. Periscope opens up the panopticon, no, it is the panopticon. It is the antithesis of open. I don't trust that wormhole.

They gas the burrows so you must have a back door to your bolt hole.

Ever always this has been on the net. It is baked into it and Silicon Valley and startup zeitgeist are its ghastly progeny.

Deal. Square Deal. Raw Deal. Bottom of the Deck Deal. Big Deal.

The drone president

The problem is that you can take anything from FB except they are willing to 'give'. They steal the commons and enclose it and leave us in the ghettos and sacrifice towns.

They are inhospitable. Perfect circles all out of scale are fascist architecture. Hmmmm. I said it.

Speak for yourself. I will fucking cut you.

https://steller.co/site/static/js/steller.js

It is a de minimis video editor. Unlike iMovie. I think of it as iMovie LIte. Much needed entry level tool.

OK, it is free if you have the hardware and the software to operate it. Access.

Is it good because it is detailed?

Why is it good?

a resource...shared by a group... subject to social dilemmas.

a new way of looking unlike law profs or economists or philosophers or ...anyone. What is the worth of another way of looking? Can't say yet, but is there a hierarchy of ways, some better than other, some subservient to others because inferior?

How does quote fit the idea of knowledge commons. We are the individual monks and the commons is the mind moving? Not just your mind, not just my mind, but 'all mind'?

terror & laughter onions & sizzling steaks mirrors & men

Now by the law of conservation of hate, the fear fills me, too.

And here is the fear made real.

and the physics of fear is that it fills us up.

Fear is mostly invisible, breathed in as we wake in the morning.

Sometimes fear is for real--other people or ourselves--we see it in our mirrors or others mirror it to us.

fear dellivered like hospitality

we fuck fear

we drink fear

we eat fear

We learn to love it--the fear becomes palatable and we say things like, "Hmmm, not so bad once you get used to it." or "Tastes a little like chicken."

nothing in extremis is very far apart.

nice pun

Who ? The poet or the persona or something in ourselves being commanded to stand?

on demand and just in time, fear is delivered.

Passive voice. Disembodied voice. Find the voice. It is a man behind a curtain. Hiding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE

We can commission ourselves to annotate a page like this. Annotators are like Banksy only the tags are invisible until the proper 'filter' is displayed.

Google Data Center Project

An actual response to Simon's call. Can I get an "Amen"?

A response: The counting metaphor. How do I love thee, let me count the ways. I have always loved the anti-logic of Browning.

https://youtu.be/dpKFXo4F94c

Watching the inevitable. The disinterest of video. It is cold and uncaring. It spools death and destruction out. There is nothing we can do except wake from one nightmare to another. This is the stuff of suicide, of hope crushed. Why do we watch? We are compelled as observers of and livers within the human condition. You must acknowledge it. Condemned to let the video play out.

Don't forget friction.

To honor Simon's posts specifically and to honor writing in general, you have to slow down, you have commit to a slow read, you need to respond in the spirit of serious play. You need to trust and hope for kindness and care. Reading is an intellectual, emotional and embodied picnic. That's what I mean.

The protein content in locusts varies from around 50 to 60 percent, according to the books Insects by Steven Parker. This means their protein content is comparable to that of raw beef. They’re also known to have around a 12 percent fat content and many nutrients like calcium, magnesium, iodine, phosphorus, and riboflavin.

The story of the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral is one of loss, terrible maladies, and spilled marinara. But it’s also a classic tale of the strange obstacles immigrants can often face in new countries.

What an understatement! But I rarely see such honesty in official reports.

For example, I use Blackboard at my university because students for clamored for a space to view their grades and to view their assignments. When you use it as a point of departure from that, well...that's when they push back. And they do.

I share this, but most teachers I know are not eager to adopt another way of being and teaching. The default works well enough. [dusted and done]

The follow up question is: why did it have little impact? Why does a decentralized, non-scaffolded approach fail? Because most people don't want it. Or they don't understand that they need it. They are trapped in systems (especially K-12) that demand they behave in ways that are monolitically templated or that want them to be so.

What specifically is the spin that John Iadorola is remarking upon? Whose interests is Breitbart advocating for? Spin merchants have different values. What are they?

Sirota nails the question of the day.

Would it be great to do top ten political 'shivs' of the 21st century? I would put all of Clinton's legislative 'achievements' in that category.

Cenk channels Breitbart in order to ascribe motives. Legit?

Wed Mar 15 2017 11:11:15 GMT-0500 (CDT)

testing the space bar problem.

Mending Wall BY ROBERT FROST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXB-C2iKpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfN05JNhi3k

With moderation. I hope Sandy didn't mean to extend that "more boundaries" very far. For me, that is the essence of teaching: how far to go, what boundaries/scaffolds to erect, which ones to make permeable, which ones to allow students to take down and move or just allow free range.

I think the metes and bounds are implicit. LIke social contracts, they are agreed upon but hidden. I agree to be civil within certain bounds. I don't park my brain at the door in the service of 'nice' but neither do I give up my right to disagree in the most agreeable manner I can think of. Thank god for the rules, whatever they are. Thank god for the rulebenders and breakers, wherever they lurk.

Would prefer a "daily invocation" rather than a sharp stick in the eye. You wouldn't like it when the Panda is angry.

ditto with faberglas. Intentionally ironic and un-open?

Thanks to @dogtrax for dropping by and making the newsletter something more. Can't think of a nicer Saturday morning surprise. Just let me know if you are looking for a particular kind of story and I will find it and curate the unholy eff out of it.

like pinning a butterfly to a board, a living butterfly.

My Louisville compatriot, Muhammed Ali, boxing his shadow.

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

I looked in my state, Kentucky, and expected to see lots of reported incidents from 2016, but I found none. Are we less racist here than elsewhere? Is there less hate here? Well...no, but what are these hate crime indices generally valuable if they are full of informational holes that can only be plugged by gut feeling. Have they not been dramatically emboldened in Kentucky? How can I conclude from this kind of information? Dammit this pisses me off that our information is so problematic.

Whose responsibility is it to take what is generated and grow some sort of signal from the noise? Here is a link to all the gathered threads. . Have at it. Or come up with something else: a summary, critique, argument, analysis, whatevs. Otherwise are we, as Thomas Merton accused his fellow Trappist monks, just a bunch of cozy cheesemakers.

You cannot sharpen the ax of abstraction. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Thanks to dogtrax for deomonstrating other ways to respond. I think that most academics are limited by their aca-speak roots. Kevin's roots are in the k-12 classroom and in play as a crucial part of annotation. I applaud that. And sometimes you need to shock like Mel Brooks in The Producers

https://youtu.be/kHmYIo7bcUw?t=2m6s

Fascinating that these posts are rarely annotated. Teacher annotate thyself.

Roethke crushes the idea that we can differentiate feeling from thought. This is why I love poetry. It is its own system of knowing entire unto itself.

None of this weak tea learning for me. This organized play date with all the other pablum-faced kiddies, nope, not for me. I got skin in the game and Ima gonna lose it if I don't make the learning work.

Imagine if you will that hypnogogic state between waking and dreaming. A threshold. A liminal field. And what are we waking up from or waking away from?

From Wind in the Willows

Then, as he looked, it winked at him, and so declared itself to be an eye; and a small face began gradually to grow up round it, like a frame round a picture. A brown little face, with whiskers. A grave round face, with the same twinkle in its eye that had first attracted his notice. Small neat ears and thick silky hair. It was the Water Rat! Then the two animals stood and regarded each other cautiously. ‘Hullo, Mole!’ said the Water Rat. ‘Hullo, Rat!’ said the Mole. ‘Would you like to come over?’ enquired the Rat presently. ‘Oh, its all very well to TALK,’ said the Mole, rather pettishly, he being new to a river and riverside life and its ways. The Rat said nothing, but stooped and unfastened a rope and hauled on it; then lightly stepped into a little boat which the Mole had not observed. It was painted blue outside and white within, and was just the size for two animals; and the Mole’s whole heart went out to it at once, even though he did not yet fully understand its uses. The Rat sculled smartly across and made fast. Then he held up his forepaw as the Mole stepped gingerly down. ‘Lean on that!’ he said. ‘Now then, step lively!’ and the Mole to his surprise and rapture found himself actually seated in the stern of a real boat. ‘This has been a wonderful day!’ said he, as the Rat shoved off and took to the sculls again. ‘Do you know, I’ve never been in a boat before in all my life.’ ‘What?’ cried the Rat, open-mouthed: ‘Never been in a—you never—well I—what have you been doing, then?’ ‘Is it so nice as all that?’ asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him. ‘Nice? It’s the ONLY thing,’ said the Water Rat solemnly, as he leant forward for his stroke. ‘Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing,’ he went on dreamily: ‘messing—about—in—boats; messing——’

Entropy leads inevitably to commerce and the cold quiet black velvet of an empty universe. Blake also said that the tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Ha! Barthes assumes that because they occupy the same space in time that it is not coincidence with revolution/contestation/assassination/explosion. Prove it,motherfucking Barthes. No, he just lets it lay like a dead fish on a priceless Persian carpet.

Yes, history as jive talk, post hoc rationalizations.

In the US of A this is fundamentally unconstitutional. Here is the relevant quote from the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Unalienable = cannot be alienated, cannot be sold. Souls cannot be sold but can be bought.

The illusion of Chapter Two in a dissertation. The illusion that just one more reference will make it complete. the illusion of induction and just one counterfactual as counterfucktual

What do we do when confonted with silence? Maybe we need to shift metaphors from confronted to some other consentual reality. A sockhop perhaps, or a Morris Dance or a paso doble or poppin' and lockin'

And OCD-like focus.

Technological mediation leads us down into the uncanny valley. Yes, very creepy indeed.

the original 'truthy' word?

I had never considered this before. And it's almost as if no matter the occasion they are all given mostly similar weight.

Rhetoric often is sleight-of-hand that distracts us with 'look over here and pay no attention to the hypocrisy over there' trumpery.

Interesting. I just watched it. It was a little uncomfortable in that 'yes, we can' can be applied to drone warfare and crushing whistleblowers. That is more chilling than electrifying.

OK, that is both funny and mean. Fean? Munny?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

Some of Bayles' work

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

Vinyl emulsion paint very popular with abstract artists.

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

I think the pictures really speak to step one: awareness, be aware that real human beings are dying. Unfortunately, in most parts of the country the only faces that matter are white faces. I know that is cynical, but the reason MIke Pence faced the issue of AIDS in small town and rural Indiana with a needle exchange program was that almost all the victims were white. And even then he was forced to do so by state-wide public pressure from---the envelope, please--white people.

Can't help but notice my own troubled state, Kentucky. I am watching it metastacize, but you notice that the cancer was there in 1999. Why? Powerlessness of the Unnecessariat.

Where is Marrakech? Morocco.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Z6FUfMGrM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xMCNmUaGko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu62StlsMY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w

Now bring it down

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BouCnGs70H8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAA7h5ijSEo

See lyrics and annotations here

Just don't. Don't understand it. Understand it with 'don't'. Give don't a chance.

Don't Carry It All

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

Lyrics and notes

Just roll with it, bro. Roll wid it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXLKpLNGhVA&index=2&list=PLv3h0MQQh8fRHNmsB8FvbMyrkMKAtVDSP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-QIiVS_7Hs

I thinks art serves best if it serves itself first. Why does everything have to be a transaction. And who decides if the world is better? And who put academics in charge of the civic imagination, whatever the hell that is.

I know I am a grumpy fellow sometimes, but the institutional imperatives of academe are exactly one of the targets of netprov. The OccupyMLA is a classic netprov enacted by folks with real skin in the game--university adjuncts-against the forces of tenured track professionalism and guild values.

Jeez, that's a book of an article. Great examples and case studies.

I think the 'alchemy' metaphor is becoming a bit strained, but if it helps us 'get' the idea that transmutation is the brain's glory then I can live with it. Of course, the brain's crowning achievement appears to be eating the planet so that is the dark side of alchemy--if we have the power, we will use it. And here we sit glitching and spinning and transmogrifying while the planet burns.

Terry Elliott--I love Oxford commas, iterations, and redundant "t's".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKEuhcTz6w

Another version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGGSCtY2T9U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUv2-V-QYXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUz6f7xiVmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Hfs8J6pHo

Wonder no more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K7gyTQuuls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6jma9VQEls

https://soundcloud.com/lindymusic/ditd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEX0s7yg2Sc

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

etc. etc.go here: https://play.spotify.com/user/cdnpressarts/playlist/0vdhmCnLwhvtrYQrxlc5FL

Just substitution. I see this quite often with my ELL students.

Crossroads metaphor works? I am afraid it is more like this:

And no one is interested in helping turn over the turtle.

And what are these sign of edupocalypse? Maybe this is just wishful thinking. Is this whitepaper a viable alternative? I will continue to read, but I worry that the name whitepaper might reveal how very unchallenging it might be. I hope they prove me wrong.

That's a long sentence.

I remember when Freddie Mercury died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M

Are they? I don't know. It seems to me that we share more in common than we do difference.

think about pain, so relative. Pain depends. For example, child birth pain is controlled by hormones. It is a user interface.

Isn't this beautiful?

The weight of difference is exponentially greater than the weight of similarity. Why?

Use the best of both worlds?

Robot overlords with elite algorithms or crowds of amateurs of varied ability? This is a great question.

Also available on Vialogues.

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, POE

The great Amurkan dream--greed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Da1tDKFfno

Yeah, I know exactly what they mean here. I am trying to create an origin story in #netnarr that continues as we continues. Here it is: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Tiny-Coolities-a-Solo-Serial-Networked-Narrative-pelzowvrp4UMLZHV1mmus

I am willing to share the narrative, but who cares. Nobody did when I published. Maybe nobody saw it. Who knows? Maybe Kevin. Maybe Daniel. And I write for myself anyway, the ultimate solipsistic radio tower.

Of course they hated it. These guys were just establishment dudes with no wish or need to step out on a limb. Remind me of most of the teachers I have ever worked with. Cozy lesson planners.

I am here, but not sure why. I guess it is connected to #netnarr which I am not really all that connected to. Lots of radio stations broadcasting for attention but for what purpose. Aimless? Idle? And that's ok, but what is the course about? Alchemy? A discredited pseudo-scientific discredited metaphor?

What is your take on this?