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The Red Green Show Ep 143 "The High School Reunion" (1996 Season) (www.youtube.com)
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Irish band, AJA, perform "Black Cow" live but isolated (www.youtube.com)
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I have built hundreds of oddly specific James Joyce Finnegans Wake 1924 Playlists, can I share here? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Thank you for feedback / feedfoward.

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Experience Mythology Project : Seattle Tech Empire, Carl Sagan Fights Back ::: PaleBlueDot Alternate Reality Game ARG / My Game in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!

Joy!

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great

Starship Integrated Flight Test 3 Launch Discussion and Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

It is looking like it might go on first attempt!

/c/SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Official Launch Discussion & Updates Thread! in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Fuel loading has gone well so far!

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Steely Dan - Iconic Duo Had Rookie Sing BACKUP on This 70s Hit—By the NEXT Year He OUTSOLD ‘em!—Professor of Rock (www.youtube.com)
Tankies call for state execution in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ActivePub every platform has at least one major Intelligence Agency monitor who has to make a weekly report of ongoing. Do people really think 9/11 didn't happen on message boards? A lot of secrets for corporate espionage and government leaks happen on message boards. There are worst things to waste staff time on.

"Lemmy" as an app has to have a file in case it comes up on some security matter - it has to have a definition on a Wiki somewhere!

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Loss of control, often dramatized scene in fiction stories where a character physically travels, has a large amount of information to share - but limited time. "Come with me if you want to live" (tvtropes.org)
 

Link to TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive

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“Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan - cornerstone of /c/mental_influenced (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/mental_influenced@sh.itjust.works
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As a media environment, the context here is to view media as environments and even the shift they make over time.

I added a link to Jung's concept of "persona" to the sidebar of this community: For Jung, "the danger is that [people] become identical with their personas—the professor with his textbook, the tenor with his voice." The result could be "the shallow, brittle, conformist kind of personality which is 'all persona', with its excessive concern for 'what people think'"—an unreflecting state of mind "in which people are utterly unconscious of any distinction between themselves and the world in which they live. They have little or no concept of themselves as beings distinct from what society expects of them."

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Beehaw discussion, avoiding influences and managing new information consumption: "How did you find a healthy balance between staying informed and not despairing about the world?" (beehaw.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/mental_influenced@sh.itjust.works
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There are many detailed replies in this Beehaw.org posting related to media environments.

/c/mental_influenced community: “Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.” - Marshall McLuhan

As a media environment, this Beehaw discussion is treating the entire world, the whole #PaleBlueDot as a media environment. How much of the world's news can you consume? Some of the replies talk about their spouse being a filter for even world news information.

7-13-23 www.thefarside.com in c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

No idea if this story is true: https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-origin-of-the-hotel-pillow-chocolate-3301205

I've stayed at chain business hotels that did it in the 1990's

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The Musical Innertube - Talking About Walter Becker (Steely Dan) (www.youtube.com)
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Professor of Rock, Steely Dan's Reeling in the Years: Hired Gun NAILED Best Solo of 1973 on 1st TRY…But Engineer FORGOT to Hit Record! (www.youtube.com)
Lemmy.ml ~~is down right now~~ (back online, was unreachable for about 6 hours) in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

most likely, yes. There was no notice of a planned outage, and the timing of them both going down within 15 minutes of each other. Lemmy server programming code isn't very robust when it comes to performance, it is possible to busy up the database to a point that the site become unresponsive. I don't know what is going on with lemmy.ml being entirely unreachable, the devs who run that server don't normally work on weekends... and normally nginx responds with an error at minimum. Nothing at all is loading

Lemmy.ml ~~is down right now~~ (back online, was unreachable for about 6 hours) in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

lemmy.world is reachable, but no database connections, it has an "Error" page on every post I try to load. Which this post itself on Lemmy.world serves as example: https://lemmy.world/post/1578844

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Steely Dan: Show Biz Kids (www.youtube.com)
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Reading a posting on lemmy-ui that is a link to another lemmy posting is confusing to read, it looks like the messages is from the person doing the link-posting. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I also find that when people post journalist news sites, they are using archive proxies to bypass paywalls, and you can't tell which news site the actual story is from.

The context of this being a "link posting" is not very clear. I encourage discussion and changes to the lemmy-ui webapp so that it more clearly presents that this is an "offsite link" posting(?)

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FYI: lemmy.ml - central hub for many communities - has been down 2 hours after 0.18 upgrade EDIT: back up - they say DDoS attack against multiple Lemmy instances (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RoundSparrow@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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Based on my weeks of code (and operating instance) study on lemmy_server, I strongly suspect that peer servers upgrading to 0.18 is causing a swarm of federation activity that lemmy.ml is getting as peers go down and back up.

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