Our party-line phone was constantly monitored by two busy-bodies up the road. That was small town living.

So the Tik-Tok legislation is going through. I'm coming around to flint's view of this. If you think about it in terms of surveillance capitalism  working with the surveillance state you can see some poor outcomes on this especially as we creep up on Trump's intended lifetime appointment. Not to pull an old man yelling at the sky but the internet was supposed to be distributed not run by all these monopolies.

Neil gets it.

So I gave up on the OTC in ear hearing aids which I had replaced my super expensive behind the ear Oticons with. I went with Starkey Genisis in ear which had really good sound. They errored out on me so I'm on loaner rechargeable Oticons until my Starkey's are replaced. I'm hoping this doesn't turn into a shitstorm.
 

Happy Monkey wrote:

I had noticed that he got increasingly brittle since he started quoting Jordan Peterson back on the old site. 

So this is getting serious now. My Dad is, thankfully, not on the internet.He is a right wing Catholic because he lives in an extreme right wing diocese, he's easily manipulated and used to be kept out of trouble by my mom before she passed. He was reading his Catholic paper when I dropped in last night and he quotes, I shit you not, Jordan Peterson criticizing the Pope in his fucking Catholic newspaper. It would appear that The Grift™, is combining with religion for a meta-grift. Rogan did an interview with Carlson who is apparently on board as well.  crap
 

TheNeverWas wrote:

Dickey Betts, of Allman Bros fame, was 80. His fish was The Big C, and COPD.

People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts pickin' on that red guitar

~Charlie Daniels
 

Dickey showed up unannounced at a dive bar in Scranton my friends and I were hanging out at. He played a set with the band. Peace.
 

The real crime was putting the Kardasians in the spot-light.

It could just be guys of a certain age (me) who find them both annoying and distracting should be rid of them.

Next up for my Kubota is widening the wheel stance by swapping sides and flipping my rims. In its previous life the tractor sat outside so I'm going to have to hit everything with liquid wrench before we start.



 

I'm reading Masters of the Air about the 8th Air Force right now. I knew we'd taken losses but this is horrific.

https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Fields-Deception-Britains-Bombing-Decoys-World/12618529644/bd
It can be found on the internet but at a price.
 

I'll give it a shot. Screens and the attention economy are a next level threat. Drugs, alcohol, romance novels, motorcycles, and wood working equipment only impact particular small percentages of the population. Screens are everywhere, in pockets, purses, restaurant walls, desks, cars, bicycles, classrooms, selling, propagandizing, insinuating into every situation reducing our attention to the Now.


The question is are we controlling the screen or is the screen controlling us. As adults we like to think we're in charge of our technology, but to what extent can middle schoolers even fake that?

Some good stuff is going to come of the free flow of information and some really shitty stuff is coming from the free flow of dis/misinformation. How that plays out is going to rely on individual education and ego. We have to be educated enough to recognize what we don't know and avoid ego driven responses. This does not describe a pre-teen brain.
 

I could be home by lunch!