“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!
Joy!
they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.
Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40
45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great
It is looking like it might go on first attempt!
Fuel loading has gone well so far!
ActivePub every platform has at least one major Intelligence Agency monitor who has to make a weekly report of ongoing. Do people really think 9/11 didn't happen on message boards? A lot of secrets for corporate espionage and government leaks happen on message boards. There are worst things to waste staff time on.
"Lemmy" as an app has to have a file in case it comes up on some security matter - it has to have a definition on a Wiki somewhere!
All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)
us bad > us hate china > china good
Kind of like Roger Waters in recent decade regarding Ukraine - "USA bad" is more what he cares about...
It’s already like that here, friend.
Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.
Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.
Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.
Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.
When cross-posted >= 2, should go to a dedicated page like Reddit has had for a very long time... and allow easy viewing of who posted, date, number of comments, date of last comment, votes, etc.
15,500 viewers. They are estimating 1 hour from time of this comment.
Loss of control, often dramatized scene in fiction stories where a character physically travels, has a large amount of information to share - but limited time. "Come with me if you want to live"
Alice has found herself in a sticky situation. Maybe the Mooks are closing in, or even worse, the Big Bad himself. She's on the wrong end of a Run or Die battle, and running isn't working out too well. Enter Bob — whom Alice may …
Link to TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive
“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan - cornerstone of /c/mental_influenced
As a media environment, the context here is to view media as environments and even the shift they make over time.
I added a link to Jung's concept of "persona" to the sidebar of this community: For Jung, "the danger is that [people] become identical with their personas—the professor with his textbook, the tenor with his voice." The result could be "the shallow, brittle, conformist kind of personality which is 'all persona', with its excessive concern for 'what people think'"—an unreflecting state of mind "in which people are utterly unconscious of any distinction between themselves and the world in which they live. They have little or no concept of themselves as beings distinct from what society expects of them."
Beehaw discussion, avoiding influences and managing new information consumption: "How did you find a healthy balance between staying informed and not despairing about the world?"
I don’t want to be totally uninformed about what’s going on, but I also don’t want to fall into doomscrolling. I know that I could very easily just avoid any news sites and only find out about these things secondhand from people I talk to whether in real life or online. I also know that it’s not goo...
There are many detailed replies in this Beehaw.org posting related to media environments.
/c/mental_influenced community: “Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan
As a media environment, this Beehaw discussion is treating the entire world, the whole #PaleBlueDot as a media environment. How much of the world's news can you consume? Some of the replies talk about their spouse being a filter for even world news information.
No comments about the spin prime test? under 10K viewers live on spaceflightnow
giving any direct answer on his actual religious beliefs is to highlight how “true in a sense” the stories are.
They are true, metaphorically. Just as much as Star Wars is true to the mass mind (hive mind, collective unconscious, whatever you call it) of the human experience. Just as much true as The Simpsons, Finengans Wake, Shakespeare, etc.
I think a lot of people avoid very basic things about religions: 1) They are learned much like spoken languages. 2) people have trouble learning second languages much like religions. 3) You can translate religion to religion, there are a lot of common concepts, even if often inverted. Take marriage, funerals, and holidays for examples.
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
It's taking Fox News literally, it is taking Star Trek literally, it is taking fiction stories as fact / literal that's the problem.
who? I've never heard of him in context of studying world religions.... i was quoting an expert on Comparative Mythology.
"his views on cultural and political issues which have been described as conservative or right-wing." - I don't think "all religions are non-literal" sounds like conservative in any way, shape, or form.
I also find that when people post journalist news sites, they are using archive proxies to bypass paywalls, and you can't tell which news site the actual story is from.
The context of this being a "link posting" is not very clear. I encourage discussion and changes to the lemmy-ui webapp so that it more clearly presents that this is an "offsite link" posting(?)
Based on my weeks of code (and operating instance) study on lemmy_server, I strongly suspect that peer servers upgrading to 0.18 is causing a swarm of federation activity that lemmy.ml is getting as peers go down and back up.
Enterprise: enterprise.lemmy.ml - Thank you!