I remember the first time I attended a Quaker Meeting (for Worship) many decades ago just like it was yesterday. It was an awe-inspiring experience. I guess maybe when Simon and Garfunkel wrote “The Sound of Silence”, they might have been trying to capture a similarly phenomenal experience. I am often reminded of this experience… Continue reading Mainstreaming a Different Mainstream
Imma Throw the Book at You
I love this contraction! Book people prolly aren’t familiar with many of the popular time-saving contractions in use online, and this one is really oustanding. It’s actually a sort of double-(or triple?)-contraction: both “I’m” and “gonna” are contractions, and then the “-m-” is also a contraction of a bunch of apparently superfluous sounds and the… Continue reading Imma Throw the Book at You
Consumer Behavior and Belief
We consume a lot of things — including, I guess, things we aren’t even aware that we’re consuming … like ideas. I think a lot of our behavior follows patterns that are “animalistic” in nature. Like Mick Jagger (with the Rolling Stones) sang: we salivate like a pavlov dog. Apparently, our systems are based on… Continue reading Consumer Behavior and Belief
Submission to Popular Publicity (and the “Mainstream” Sinkhole)
This week, an account that apparently reflects J.K. Rowling quasi-published something. The company that actually did publish something apparently “belongs” to someone named Elon Musk — though I highly doubt that no-one on Earth “owns” him (or her or it or whatever). Here’s the last sentence of the so-called “tweet” or “X” or so-called “factual”… Continue reading Submission to Popular Publicity (and the “Mainstream” Sinkhole)
15 Minutes (of Fame or Failure)
One significant difference between humans and machines is that whereas machines need not cope with the “real” world (e.g. “bugs”), humans indeed do need to cope with whatever happens. I experienced this recently when a “bug” in one of my healthcare providers’ system (of machines) caused a failure in the information I received, leading to… Continue reading 15 Minutes (of Fame or Failure)
It should be a wake-up call for everybody
People are so divided in this country — they’re so divided … and there’s so many people that love it, they love that we’re divided and they profit off it — off that division … and they stoke the fires … and they do it for their own profit … and it’s so fuckin’ gross.… Continue reading It should be a wake-up call for everybody
Political and Industrial Institutionalisation of Publicity
Even if men and women alike are not born, neither are babies born free nor do children usually grow up in free markets. All of evolution follows in the footsteps of their predecessors, their environments, and find their more or less appropriate milieus. Although there is no void, we are nonetheless more or less free… Continue reading Political and Industrial Institutionalisation of Publicity
Relationships Among Local and Topical and Milieus
Over the past decade or so, I have been increasingly emphasizing that the languages we speak belong to the linguistic communities we participate in. A few days ago, I was a little thrilled to be vindicated when Adam Curry declared what I wish to refer to as his cardinal rule of podcasting: Be about your… Continue reading Relationships Among Local and Topical and Milieus
All Through Our Existence: The – A – My
I am somewhat surprised that what I intend to write about this week may indeed not be a HUGE leap from what I wrote about last week. Many things have been going through my mind — or maybe I should say: many influences. When I finally came up with the title for this post, it… Continue reading All Through Our Existence: The – A – My
Literacy & Publicacy
Literacy and publicacy go hand-in-hand. The way I see the relationship between literacy and publicacy goes like this: Literacy is the ability to know what others have made public; Publicacy is the ability to know how to make something public. I think eventually the Twentieth Century will go down in history as a strange time… Continue reading Literacy & Publicacy
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