Neil Postman was right.
Our educational models and methods are changing for the worse.
TV and the internet are terrible mediums for public or political discourse and this has exacerbated many of our existing issues.
Our culture has become more shallow and has started to lack something profound.
Things will not improve until we change our relationship with these technologies.
They sell travel sized rolls of that gorilla tape.
It sticks to just about anything, pretty much forever, and is totally opaque.
Should work like a charm.
Mental health, cognitive and attention span issues, misinformation, etc. are to the point that it's a public health crisis. If we're lucky, ten years from now, we'll talk about this the way we talk about smoking now.
Great concept, highlighting skewed priorities, but awful execution.
Precisely, but you're giving them too much credit by expecting them to figure it out from reading the lyrics alone.
Prejudice tends to lack a capacity for self reflection and an understanding of irony.
It's the same with nazi punks and MAGAs who like Rage Against The Machine, they just want something that sounds loud, aggressive, and violent and rarely understand what they're listening to or how it came about until it's shoved right in their face. Then they get all offended about it.
Most of the time, the best they can make themselves is a cheap, talent-less imitation that lacks any sense of authenticity, and to try and overcome that they've resorted to something that can produce a finely polished turd that still lacks any sense of authenticity.
Cartoonish levels of villainy.
Locksmithing/access control is an industry that is sorely lacking new people...
Interesting. I was considering locksmithing as a way to get some supplemental income later in life. I've done skilled labor and light IT work most of my life and it seemed like a good fit for my skill set. I'll have to move that to the top of the pile of possibilities.
Absolutely intentionally designed to be that way by the GOP and blatantly obvious when you look at their voting records.
One of their main arguments against taxes is that government will always waste tax dollars due to corruption and incompetence... Which is a self fulfilling prophecy, as they've proven to be some of the most corrupt and incompetent political leaders in history.
Was there ever any doubt? They've been trying to tie devices to identities for years now. This is just the end game.
The funny thing is, it's kinda hard to prove that surveillance based ads actually work. Ad platforms like to throw numbers of how may people see ads around, but it's hard to actually tie those numbers to sales. What's worse is that the way these ads are bought, sold, and how ad placement is commodified means that everything remains intentionally vague to the people buying ads. In most cases, all they know is that "everyone is doing it" and "making lots of money" and if they don't they'll be left out of the revenue party.
Right now, enough people are still drinking the kool-aid, that it'll remain a safe revenue stream for companies like Meta unless something happens that hurts the cash flow of their customers. But, it kinda makes you wonder, if the vagueries of the online add ecosystem caused companies to reconsider the investment during an economic crisis, how would these ad platforms that have recently gotten very cozy with fascists make money?
If you want to get into how this happens, and the way it happens with other technologies, I'd suggest Neil Postman's Technopoly and Amusing Ourselves To Death as a good start.
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Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.