Lord of the Rings

For Burnham and Ellul, dialectic is the surgeon’s knife that cuts through ideology’s anesthesia—revealing that both patient and doctor are already on the operating table.

Pessimism is an illness; caused by a deficiency of optimism.

The #categorical-imperative is the central moral law:“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” - Immanuel Kant

#Media-Neworks

YouTube Influencers vs Rumble Influencer vs Trad Media

challenging real world, local social networks 🤝

Social media is at an existential moment — not due to a single villain, but because digital affordances have restructured public discourse into a game. #attention-economy

Traditional content was created to be consumed, today internet media is designed to be engaging and shared. This difference has had a profound effect on politics. It's created a noisy political environment where bad ideas can be amplified, drowning out the more reasonable or moderate views. #media

"No longer are we surrounded by fields, woods, and rivers, but by signs, signals, billboards, screens, labels, and trademarks: this is our universe." - Jacques Ellul

Americans actually started using the dating system (mm/dd/yyyy) from the UK who used it before the 20th century.

You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting the letters of each word in the phrase "May I have a large container of coffee?"

Can someone explain the teaching objective here?

Fireship the best tech channel on youtube. Funny, informative and short videos to the point.
youtu.be/tx6A3_OLEMY?...

audiomass.co is a nice audio editor for the web in just 70KB of vanilla JavaScript

Humble Book Bundle: Coding Cookbooks https://buff.ly/3YXf1r3 #ad

Gurusphere expansion initiated...

member of israeli knesset ofer cassif suspended for six months for accusing the idf of committing war crimes and signing south africa’s genocide petition at the icj

one of the more severe punishments in recent years

A bird may have its tweets, but the wise social butterfly seeks bluer skies.

What does this mean?!
A 3% fee is increasing the prices.