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1968 book “War and Peace in the Global Village” by Canadian Professor Marshall McLuhan - #WWWOpera #FinWakeIndraNet

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“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.” ― Marshall McLuhan

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  • Free and open information, like Wikipedia, used to be an ideal. I have used Reddit since 2008 or earlier because it got on search engines and shared information consistently on precise topics. Twitter used to also be this way, but now mostly only puts paid subscribers on search engines.

    If you are to organize information around topics, such as a Commodore 64 community, and the protocol openly allows copies to be made via federation, I encourage people to have the attitude that information be treated like Wikipedia content. It sucks now that so much information from 10 years ago has been just entirely lost now that so many deliberately purged their Reddit comments, etc. Tragedy of the commons. And it drags down the entire planet that people squirrel away discussions on topics that are generally public. It’s like now everyone wants to monetize even their discussions on Commodore 64 or automotive repair / have behind absolute control or paywalls /etc.


  • While I agree with what you are saying, I think audiences crave the falsehoods strongly, regardless of how the sausage is made. And I know that the technology itself may be regulated for normal consumers, while ‘professionals’ will use their wealth to get another set of technology that does it better. Much like in the USA prostitution is generally illegal, but filing sex for pornography media is legal. There really are not very many preaching to level the playing fields on media production hardware. And if you look at the energy requirements and cost of a high-end GPU just as run-time, you can start to get the sense of how a $15,000 camera is going to be able to do post-production that a consumer smartphone won’t have.



  • I don’t enjoy art that divides people with hate. The Bible as art, the Quran as art, the Torah as art - where clergy preaches that “only our book is correct, all other books are false”. I find no pleasure in hate, I find no pleasure in war and killing.

    I leave the life
    I left behind
    There’s truth that lives
    And truth that dies
    I don’t know which
    Never mind
    يا سلام على السلام يا سلام
    يا سلام يا سلام، يا سلام يا سلام
    I could not kill
    The way you kill
    I could not hate
    I tried, I failed
    You turned me in
    At least you tried
    You side with them whom
    You despise
    This was your heart
    This swarm of flies
    This was once your mouth
    This bowl of lies
    You serve them well, I’m not surprised
    You’re of their kin
    You’re of their kind

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