Notices by anderbill (band@hachyderm.io), page 3

@yo_bj same *sigh*

@yo_bj I glanced at this and thought, maybe "90's and upper 80's" is a way to refer to cultural, social, and technology eras.

@iDGS @ia thx for the link. i figured out how to find, create, and organize folders; may not be *the* way, but seems useful and usable

@simsa03 hey, for some of us thinking takes time

@iDGS @ia i think i need a refresher on folder support.

the set of socials is a collection of silos, some with moats, connected by ad-hoc bridges, some of which only support traffic one-way. is this the current fediverse?

@iDGS i think i saw a post of yours the other day regarding @ia. yes? are you using it? i have been an iAWriter user since the early days. and now that they support [[wikilinks]], it's even better.

Biden's UN speech - Douglass Carmichael Sep 26, 2024
A good sane speech. But it points out the limits of current models of sanity. The whole speech never mentioned climate. Like so much sane thought, it was an exercise in the practice of denial, mixed with active repression.
https://douglasscarmichael.substack.com/p/bidens-un-speech

In my opinion the "Prisoner's Dilemma" would be a lot easier to explain if instead of this prisoner/police framing it was about whether people decide to wear facemasks during a COVID-19 wave

this shows some value
https://rollenspiel.social/@holothuroid/113078030925958957

A sobering essay on why "police state" is an apt characterization of Trummp and MAGA plans.
Trump Is Planning to Establish a Police State: An essay by pfuhlir
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2262711

In 1994 Marina Warner lectured on Six Myths of Our Time
- in the section Boys Will Be Boys, talking about popular myths, there is this gem:
"... Blade Runner. The film -- and the book -- touch a live contemporary nerve when they imagine that the robotic monsters look just like humans, that their nature isn't apparent -- neither to us, nor to them."
Link: https://archive.org/details/managingmonsters0000warn

@Miniver Jonathan, i think it is flying out into the void. i do not like the fact that i agree with you about the real politics of living in the USA. it kinda breaks my heart, but, this is our life right now.

@Miniver nice. thanks for the thinking

@sennoma I use bookshop.org and select a local bookstore for the purchase. It is more expensive than other sources. I have limited space for books, so I do not purchase many.

@iDGS i was led to think of this book after reading a thread on how some sci(?) classes do not correct spelling errors. i wonder if folks still look up words they do not know.

@iDGS found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker

@iDGS what was the name of the book from years ago that had all phonic and abbreviated English, like "puter leet"?

This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:

@slowenough you are not alone; also for auto-play audio. *sigh*