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He’s got authenticated identity, because you have to have the email address from the school

— Roger McNamee (42:05 – 42:15)

E908: Roger McNamee, early Facebook investor & author of “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” shares early days mentoring Zuck, the destructive power of persuasive tech, the Russian plan to subvert American democracy, & Beyond Facebook: Big Tech’s dystopian surveillance, data collection & what we can do about it – PART 1

Did Anabelle Körbel pull these numbers out of a hat?

Vocabulary of the German language, in words

Vocabulary of the English language, in words

Average vocabulary of a German-speaking person, in words

Average vocabulary of an English-speaking person, in words

Also: Does this mean that German-speaking people and English-speaking people…[Read more]

“Do you have a better alternative right now?” [1:42:15]

Yes, Ms. Weiss, I do — it’s called “rational media”, which so far is primarily defined by identifying it’s polar opposite (“retard media” — see http://remediary.com/2014/11/definition-how-to-define-retard-media ).

BTW: IMHO your inclination (“I don’t…[Read more]

Hey, Nineteen!

Happy Holidays!! 😀

Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda

Mass production may blunt our aesthetic choices, but it certainly doesn’t eliminate them.

— Desmond Morris, The Human Animal Ep. 6 (“Beyond Survival”, 16:10)

Was he logged in?

E882: TWiST Live! OpenAI Co-founder & CTO Greg Brockman on our rapid acceleration toward artificial general intelligence: shares achievements in deep learning, the death of Moore’s Law (300,000x compute increase), & the risks of malice, competition & unintended consequences as OpenAI races to build AGI that benefits humanity

Exact Same Thing

“That’s a total trip!” — William Von Hippel

The video of Joe Rogan trying very hard to keep a straight face while he’s explaining the “Stoned Ape” theory is also a riot!

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/william-von-hippel

What’s new in Baltimore?

… besides the WordPress Planet feed… 24:25 (entire Q&A 22:35-27:30)

… the fact that we spend a lot of money on Facebook … 26:50

Maria, representing Spanish Harlem…

… the streets are getting hotter <3

I formulate infinity
Interstitial commercials.

What is social media?

52:10

Dvorak

“Social media is a construct using the internet to interconnect people in groups, forums or even individually so they can interact without being anywhere near each other.”

55:30

How would you define social media for this committee and more importantly for the American people?

Sandberg

“Social media enables…[Read more]

Sock it to me, just a little bit

physically being there is very retro (Joe Rogan, #1021 Russell Brand, 1:32:45)

http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/russell-brand

NEWS FLASH: Google cannot be regulated (LOL)

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/28/technology/donald-trump-google-rigged/index.html

Almost all my websites are membership-based community sites, ever since I first developed the concept about a decade ago. It’s nice to see that the idea is now beginning to catch on in the wider news / journalism industry. Note, however, that “thecorrespondent” is a brand name and not an English word (nor a word in any language as far as I know)…[Read more]

Joe Rogan, quoting Sam Harris podcast with “guest” (episode 1156, 1:48:38):

We’re at this strange time in history where the news is different depending on what channel you watch.

This is an excellent description of the transition from retard media to rational media (which I first delineated in an article called “The Wisdom of the Language”,…[Read more]

LIFE: A temporary fontier + Yet another 4-letter word

Let me get to the point, I’m sick + tire of 4-letter words. I wanna moveon. I’m gonna 4-words letter now. I bet letters never saw octothorp coming.

Interrobang

That said, I’d say most of us would never have imagined we might ever see the final frontier…[Read more]