that feeling when you’re trying to configure a new service management tool, but every clarifying question leeds to several different related trails of questions
Territories
Spent some time this morning watching shows about politics and shows about the consequences of political conflict. Any time we think of groups of people that include friends, neighbors and family as an enemy, I wonder if we aren’t then the problem. I’m including myself, here. I do hereby disavow political parties. I will continue to study and learn. I will be performing my civic duty this fall to the best of my ability.
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Hello world! Above is a photo of my daughter Sofia
Dude! I was The Dude! #strikesandgutters #guttersandstrikes
“The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that the NSA’s bulk collection of phone call metadata violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and was likely unconstitutional.”
Via EPIC
“The Greeks had no original sin and no eschatology because they saw nothing inherently wrong with the world in the first place.”
Things you find reading papers from Academia for the joy of it
Just finished: The Case of the Missing Marquess (Enola Holmes #1) by Nancy Springer 📚
I saw that Netflix is releasing a movie called Enola Holmes and I wanted to find out more. Looks like there are many books in this series so there is a possibility this could become a thing.
I enjoyed the story though the target audience is much younger than I.
And…the worst case? I asked.
“Facebook might have won already, which would mean the end of democracy in this century,” Lanier said. “It’s possible that we can’t quite get out of this system of paranoia and tribalism for profit—it’s just too powerful and it’ll tear everything apart, leaving us with a world of oligarchs and autocrats who aren’t able to deal with real problems like pandemics and climate change and whatnot and that we fall apart, you know, we lose it. That is a real possibility for this century. I’m not saying I think it’s what’ll happen, but I wouldn’t count it out. There’s evidence every single day that it’s what’s happening.”
Take the amount of misinformation about masks and COVID-19 that was flying around Facebook and Twitter daily and in turn making its way onto Fox News. Most of the people who appear on air on Fox, Lanier pointed out, are themselves on social media, getting their information or lack thereof. And so disinformation goes from Twitter to Fox to the social media feeds of the president, and the cycle begins anew. Look at how powerful these platforms could be, to the point where “the sway of media is more powerful than the experience of reality—that people can be watching hundreds of thousands die from this virus and yet believe it’s a hoax at the same time, and integrate those two things. That’s the food for evil,” Lanier said.
Today I read about Jaron Lanier and Bill Gibson in a print magazine that wasn’t Wired. These are enough references to my age in one day…