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   Frank (fschaap@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 02:11:59 JST Frank

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   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Ah, Ted Nelson!

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     Frank (fschaap@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 02:12:00 JST Frank

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs That's an amazingly early use of cyber outside of cybernetics!

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     DNAvinci (dnavinci@genomic.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 23:01:15 JST DNAvinci

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Bill Hooker

     INGREDIENT

     The above seems silly, but it is no less silly than talking about "computer predictions" and "computer studies" of things. The mere fact that a computer is involved in something has no bearing on its character or validity. The way things are done with computers affects their character and validity, just like the way things are done without computers. (Indeed, merely using a computer often has no bearing on the way things are done.)
     @sennoma @thomasfuchs

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     DNAvinci (dnavinci@genomic.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 23:01:17 JST DNAvinci

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Bill Hooker

     @thomasfuchs
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     Cybercrud takes numerous forms. All of them, however, share the patina of "science" that computers have for the layman.

     1a) COMPUTER AS MAGIC WORD

     The most delicate, and seemingly innocent, technique is the practice of naming things so as spuriously to suggest that they involve computers. Thus there is a manufacturer of pot-pipes with "Data" in its name, and apparently a pornography house with a "Cyber-".

     1b) COMPUTER AS MAGIC @sennoma