Notices by RoundSparrow 🐦 (roundsparrow@mastodon.social), page 9

#MediaEcologyStandingUp

#SurkovSiege /\ #PutinMediaInvasion

"That’s a problem Tolstoy dealt with in War and Peace. Here you have Napoleon ravaging Europe and now about to invade Russia, and Tolstoy raises this question: Is the leader really a leader, or is he simply the one out front on a wave? In psychological terms, the leader might be analyzed as the one who perceived what could be achieved and did it." - Joseph Campbell, #PowerOfMyth 1988

Marshall McLuhan was telling me

#FinWakeIndraNetToDo incomplete. There are more connections to what McLuhan was articulating that was on a smaller scale with television that the smartphone world has shown even deeper patterns.

The overall point I was trying to encircle is that machine learning has machine data formatting has been a part of clickbait, sorting / trending in media / social media. And Neil Postman's comments on seconds of adverts vs. main shows cuts/angle changes and Carl Sagan said too... articulation.

Marshall McLuhan in 1977 (and before) interview said tribal people "one of their main kind of sport is butchering each other, it's a full time sport in tribal societies"

Humans doing analysis of computer-collected and computer-sorted information have been feeding sorting, ranking, trending of media. Clickbait, advertisement placement. And it is based on what works, what changes behavior towards the advertiser's objective.

#QuestForIdentity //\\

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI3x8WIxus

Surkov cracked the monomyth, and Putin directed these patterns of memes and messages to be fed into the Internet as likes, votes, comments. #PeterPomerantsev talks about the payload, but the astroturf bottom-up approach flew under the radar of money (paid advertising) and such, but as this Wired article by #StevenBrill is saying now in 2024 - it doesn't even need to fly under the radar. Maybe the NSA / Intelligence Agencies are more on top of: free comments, likes, boosts.

I also am trying to articulate that Large Language Models we see making mistakes... we tend to think human audiences don't want mistakes. But McLuhan is articulating that people desire and the structure of violence, quest for identity. Which is exactly what Russia, North Korea, Palestine, Iran and so forth are doing with violence - wanting identity. So was Germany in World Wars...

I think war is bad. I think hate is bad and inspires more hate. Will machines hear compassion better than we have?

https://www.wired.com/story/death-of-truth-misinformation-advertising/

#MIsinformationSystems //\\ #Advertising

#SurkovSiegeAftermath

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-act-2668981400/

#DearRussia

When public information like this comes out, I assume that the Pentagon has inside information from the Kremlin and knows just how close we are to Russia ruining their OWN PEOPLE along with harming others. The USA has information about the mental state of the Kremlin and knows that Russia isn't bluffing about harming the Earth and peoples in all places badly.

I think many people know that it was bad for Russia to start this war in the first place. It's bad for all humanity.

@bmacDonald94 #FWakeCarlSagan is a big part of my project, one name is #FWakeHashtags PaleBlueDotARG ( I"m not going to put that hashtag here because it will add it to the output I'm building, thanks)

@bmacDonald94 Hey. I used to work for and I even created social media sites in high school #FWakeYear1985
#FWakeMicrosoftPaulAllen
#FWakeUbuntus

I use Ubuntu and #FWakeAustin Linux user group leader back in #FWakeYear2008

Nice to meet you. I'm trying to clean up the issues of all social media and news sites since #FWakeYear2009 and I'm 14.5 years into 38 or so year project.

#FWakeLevant //\\ #FWakeNorrhAmerica #FWakeYear382 #FWakeYear1770 #FWakeYear2024 #Bible #FWakeSchoolsReligions
#FWakeTrumpBible #FWakeGreatSealUSA #FWakeJeffersonBible
#FWakeBible
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How much money goes into advertising, marketing, product placement, signs to "inform you" of food and drinks that are heavily processed foods? How many sports teams and Olympic games are sponsored by food and drink selling messages to motivate and stimulate over-consumption in the name of profit?

#TheMediumIsTheMassAge
#TheMediumIsTheObesity
https://www.todayonline.com/world/more-billion-people-worldwide-are-obese-who-study-finds-2373676

#PutinWon #CelebrationOfIgnorance
#RussianWon #HollowUSA

Over the last few years, schools all across the US have been struggling to fill all of their teaching vacancies.

Teacher salaries, especially for those just starting out, have barely budged over the years, remaining mostly flat. Despite the critical role teachers play in shaping future generations, their compensation has not kept pace with inflation

https://myelearningworld.com/new-teacher-salary-report-2024/

@youronlyone @autistics @actuallyautistic

I'm terrible at memorization and RegExp / Unix shell / Perl / Maths with x y z always gave me trouble. Far better with verbose shell like VAX/VMS and verbose programming languages and descriptive variable names.