[FRIAM] "tech" companies suck

[Steve Smith]

The first movie theater experience I had after COVID had them shut down 
was watching Tom Hanks wander through NM landscape (filmed here more 
than set here) settings reading the Newspapers out loud to news-hungry, 
mostly illiterate, post-Civil-War townies.   He added another layer of 
curation/editorial value (or as a few towns demonstrated) bias and 
censorship.  The movie title was "News of the World"... it was an 
effective commentary/parable on the whole problem of "what means 
'News'?", particularly in a time of rapid cultural, economic, political 
and technological change.

Sam Clemens was a reporter (Journalist?) before he was a writer of 
fictions and commentary.

    https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/today-in-media-history-in-1863-a-reporter-named-samuel-clemens-became-mark-twain/

    <https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/today-in-media-history-in-1863-a-reporter-named-samuel-clemens-became-mark-twain/>

I live my life by aphorisms and anecdotes (maybe not literally, but they 
do represent a significant influence).    A quote that I have apparently 
made up (since I can never find the source of it) is misphrased as "I 
always read the paper two weeks late, because by then it has proven to 
be wrong or is no longer relevant".   I always attributed this to Twain, 
but apparently I know nothing. Another quote attributed (by many) to him 
is roughly "A man who does not read the newspaper is uninformed, a man 
who does read the newspaper is misinformed".   I found this to be a nice 
salve to the harsh abrasions caused by caustic declarations of "Fake 
News!" that ramped up so drastically with Trump's ascendency.  Rich, 
regularly coming from a news outlet whose name is so close to "Faux 
News" to attack all other sources.

I am sure that Tom and his profession has a lot of perspective to offer, 
but in the voice of Twain, "I'm not sure we are prepared to receive it".

- Steve

On 8/15/22 6:53 AM, glen wrote:
> It's an interesting question. Someone posted a poll on a Mastodon 
> server recently, something like "What is it you want from all this 
> stuff? (E.g. Twitter, Facebook, ...)" The possible answers were things 
> like "Friendship", "Connectedness", etc. There was an "Other", which I 
> filled in. I wrote something like: "The state of the world. When I was 
> younger, I read the newspaper and watched the daily news on one of the 
> big 3 networks. Now, it feels like everything's all fractured. TV news 
> is for ancient, out of touch people. The newspaper is neither local, 
> nor does it tell interesting national or international stories. So, I 
> use these media, like 12-20 different outlets just to get some sense 
> of the state of the world."
>
> I wish I had a better answer to "where do you find this stuff". It can 
> be exhausting trying to stay informed. Fora like FriAM help a bit.
>
> On 8/13/22 17:57, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>>
>> And where do find this stuff glen >_<
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 2:41 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion 
>> <https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zevd/this-is-the-data-facebook-gave-police-to-prosecute-a-teenager-for-abortion> 
>>
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