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They Thought They Were Free(press.uchicago.edu)
3 points by cheezymoogle 8y ago|0 comments
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave(txti.es)
112 points by cheezymoogle 8y ago|64 comments
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I wrote a response to this article that ended up being way too long: http://txti.es/technorealism tl;dr: Like every other long-term and protracted crisis, people predicted it was going to happen, but everyone acts surprised
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I wrote this four years ago and I think it still rings true: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1xjpfg/health_of_ocea... We're in a double-bind in that the only thing that we can use as a stick
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
> It's insane that serial abusers are protected by their institutions and allowed to continue their abuse without suffering a dent in their social standing. I like to call this the Mangino effect. At my alma mater, the University of
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Out of the 5.6MB loaded on the front page of the NY Times today, less than 1MB are images.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Awesome take on the situation.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
A++++++ would inspect elements again.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
In all honesty--you're right about there being bigger problems. But let me put it this way, I still reduce, reuse, and recycle even though I know that one unconscientous suburban family will essentially dwarf my lifelong efforts in a y
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
How intriguing! I would like to subscribe to your... how do you say... letter of news.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I've often toyed with the idea of using multi-user systems over SSH running Gopher and Lynx to achieve something like this. In the process, it would also decentralize communities and establish digital equivalents of coffee shops (i.e.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Imagine that, a digital newspaper in your digital mailbox!
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Did you read the article I posted? I definitely put forward both an acknowledgment that media firms won't change and ideas towards reducing usage where possible.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
That's one of the wildest things! We had the technological capacity to run Unix systems with several hundred users simultaneously and access at the speed of thought with 26kbps modems back in 1992, complete with instant messaging and p
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I think this is why batch jobs and crontabs exist. Just do what the BBSes used to do for syncing--wait until anti-peak-time and then let loose.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
That's one of the fundamental problems in tech today, namely: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Everyone's favorite example of that kind of "brutalist" design: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
This is a textbook definition of a false dichotomy. There are other distribution models for digital news services. There are other methods for transmitting digital content. It's not an either/or situation.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I mean, if you're just reducing the content even further, just request that they make the reduction possible server-side and everybody wins.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
As far as #1 goes, I'm arguing that plaintext is the ideal to strive towards, not the living practical reality. As far as indexing and access, the Gopher protocol and Teletext are great options to look at. As previously noted, if you
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Hint: TCP/IP & UTF-8 are fundamentally along the same principles as APRS. So yes, really you are. As far as photojournalism goes, I can think of thousands of reasons why the predominance of photojournalism has been pernicious to ci
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Are you also running noscript? I'm running a DNS sinkhole and still get 3mb on reloads.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Not my website, but please send along thanks and awareness to @thebarrytone on Twitter!
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I can put raw text on a kindle and read it. In fact, I frequently do. Comparing digital text to digital text is not apples-and-hammers.
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
1. A website's value is the amount of information that it provides to the end user. I would argue that the entirety of the works of Shakespeare or the 1911 Brittanica Encyclopedia provides more information than a high-definition pictur
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
A random archive of the New York Times frontpage in 2005 is 300kb. Articles were probably comparable in size. Are you honestly saying that the landscape of the internet and/or the staffing needs of the NY Times has changed so drastical
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Moby Dick is 1.2mb uncompressed in plain-text. That's lower than the "average" news website by quite a bit--I just loaded the New York Times front page. It was 6.6mb. that&#
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
We desperately need this and similar ecologically-sound programming philosophies in high places right now. Just considering news--Moby Dick is 1.2mb uncompressed in plain-text. That's lower than the "average" news website by