Since I spend a lot of my time with a variety of tech gizmos, there are some people who seem curious to “figure out” what I do, and so they ask me to describe what I do. Since this has happened several times before, I have — over many years of their questions and my… Continue reading I Read and I Write
Tag: publishing
Irrational Media Maintains BBC Propaganda Was Merely Edit, Error, … Epic Fail !! ;)
What makes something someone publishes “Fake News”? What makes false statements, lies and deceit an epic fail? I have already written at length about the difference between rational media (based on natural language) and irrational media (based on brand names) — and also about my opinion that irrational media are distrustworthy* (i.e., that they are… Continue reading Irrational Media Maintains BBC Propaganda Was Merely Edit, Error, … Epic Fail !! 😉
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
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
They’re Eating the Sperm
While the global news cycle is winding down to take a little break and people all over listen the Pope’s “urbi et orbi” Spiel speech, I’ve decided to use this space to cover so-called “women‘s issues” and to highlight yet another episode of Bridget’s “Dumpster Fire” series (over at phetasy.com ). People who follow my… Continue reading They’re Eating the Sperm
Delayed Information
Today, I am returning to one of my perennial topics — literacy (and also my newfangled term: publicacy — see also “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?“). I was reminded of these issues yet again (and indeed, several times) this week. The most prominent reminder was undoubtedly this quote (by Joe Rogan): As… Continue reading Delayed Information
Celebrity Talk Show
For anyone unfamiliar with what a steroid is, … well, I’m sorry but I don’t know that much about steroids either. Essentially, they are like wonder-substances which make organisms grow … and especially also to make muscles grow, and they are apparently used by people with athletic aspirations to help them become miraculous machines. In… Continue reading Celebrity Talk Show
Mainstream Milieus
I guess about a decade ago I became aware of a new trend in the music industry, referred to as the “mashup”. A mashup was a combination of two songs — and these songs could be quite different. The result was (I guess) a new piece, and one of the most prominent examples and in… Continue reading Mainstream Milieus
Dumb Americans
I sometimes have a way of saying things that people find awkward or even inappropriate, and I have a hunch the title I have chosen here is at high risk of becoming one of those situations. There is a lot to unpack here, and I don’t know if I will be able to unpack all… Continue reading Dumb Americans
Nothing is Certain but Death and Taxes
Benjamin Franklin has long since been a role model to me — I consider him to be somewhat of a hero. There are a few other wise men who like Franklin have coined phrases related to certainty [1], but Mr. Franklin was probably the most prominent pioneer of turning coining phrases into coin [2]. Certainty,… Continue reading Nothing is Certain but Death and Taxes
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