Nick Kempinski
@whoisnick.com
I’m on the web; I do things. #VancouverBC 🇨🇦
Nano Banana, I like your images they are pretty, but your ability to work with specific dimensions needs a lot of work.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Nano Banana, I like your images they are pretty, but your ability to work with specific dimensions needs a lot of work.
I was just tinkering with my theories of Orality & Aliteracy with NotebookLM and this is the podcast episode it made 🤯.
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AI summarizing Technology and Orality in a Podcast - Who is Nick?
Take Ong, Postman, McLuhan - smash them together in NotebookLM and then click Audio Overview. Have a listen and enjoy.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I was just tinkering with my theories of Orality & Aliteracy with NotebookLM and this is the podcast episode it made 🤯.
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It’s #Movember #Movember2025 again.
I do it for their work on mental health. I struggle; those I love struggle. Please donate, movember.com/m/ethernick
Instead of shock and awe, I shave a bit off every day. It’s fun for me. Follow along with daily posts on the fediverse pixelfed.social/ethernick
I do it for their work on mental health. I struggle; those I love struggle. Please donate, movember.com/m/ethernick
Instead of shock and awe, I shave a bit off every day. It’s fun for me. Follow along with daily posts on the fediverse pixelfed.social/ethernick
November 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It’s #Movember #Movember2025 again.
I do it for their work on mental health. I struggle; those I love struggle. Please donate, movember.com/m/ethernick
Instead of shock and awe, I shave a bit off every day. It’s fun for me. Follow along with daily posts on the fediverse pixelfed.social/ethernick
I do it for their work on mental health. I struggle; those I love struggle. Please donate, movember.com/m/ethernick
Instead of shock and awe, I shave a bit off every day. It’s fun for me. Follow along with daily posts on the fediverse pixelfed.social/ethernick
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We’ve entered a second age of orality. The written word’s influence is fading, replaced by short-form video slop. But if smartphones are to blame, so are the elites: as Noah McCormack argues, the history of literacy is the history of class.
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We’ve entered a second age of orality. The written word’s influence is fading, replaced by short-form video slop. But if smartphones are to blame, so are the elites: as Noah McCormack argues, the history of literacy is the history of class.
You only get nervous about things that are important.
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#Orality #Aliterate #Postliterate
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#Orality #Aliterate #Postliterate
Orality and the Sacral - Who is Nick?
This weeks continuation of our oral culture discovery: "Orality, community and the sacral". You only get nervous about things that are important.
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September 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You only get nervous about things that are important.
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#Orality #Aliterate #Postliterate
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#Orality #Aliterate #Postliterate
"Verbomotor Lifestyle". Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we're still good with subtitles?
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#orality #aliterate #postliterate
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#orality #aliterate #postliterate
My Verbomotor Kinda Life - Who is Nick?
"Verbomotor Lifestyle". Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we're still good with subtitles?
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September 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"Verbomotor Lifestyle". Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we're still good with subtitles?
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#orality #aliterate #postliterate
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#orality #aliterate #postliterate
On a new host. I'm pretty sure I copied over the DNS _atproto entry fine?
If not, when would I find out I broke things? On login, or when hitting "post"?
If not, when would I find out I broke things? On login, or when hitting "post"?
September 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
On a new host. I'm pretty sure I copied over the DNS _atproto entry fine?
If not, when would I find out I broke things? On login, or when hitting "post"?
If not, when would I find out I broke things? On login, or when hitting "post"?
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Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
Ghost 6.0 - Grow faster.
Connect to the world's largest open publishing network, understand your audience with native analytics, and build a sustainable publishing business.
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August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
🔎 Understand what works with native analytics
➕ Powerful new creator tools
📈 $100M earned for indie publishers
ghost.org/6/
75% of the way there. Just a few more of Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality. If I can match all of them... what then?
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Generative Memorization - Who is Nick?
My exploration of Ong's 'Orality and Literacy'. Now "Oral Memorization" or is it "Generative Memorization"? From oral through literate to today, has memorization gone full circle?
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July 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
75% of the way there. Just a few more of Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality. If I can match all of them... what then?
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
The things we could do with the publishing business model. Spoiler, it's time.
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Information Economy: Now with Time - Who is Nick?
Today I saw that the Georgia Straight launched an insiders club. It reminded me, why aren't we seeing more traditional publication business models? It's not just the fire-hose or the vault. I've got i...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The things we could do with the publishing business model. Spoiler, it's time.
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On this day in 1911, Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton. He became a leading philosopher whose work is a cornerstone of media theory. He coined the expression "the medium is the message". He also predicted the World Wide Web three decades before it was invented.
July 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
On this day in 1911, Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton. He became a leading philosopher whose work is a cornerstone of media theory. He coined the expression "the medium is the message". He also predicted the World Wide Web three decades before it was invented.
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This industry gives me a headache sometimes.
July 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This industry gives me a headache sometimes.
The past 500 years has proven you can be #Literate and not be the smart.
You can be #Aliterate and smart.
The more we bucket intelligence with literacy, the more we throw fuel on the fire for some to weaponize.
#Orality
You can be #Aliterate and smart.
The more we bucket intelligence with literacy, the more we throw fuel on the fire for some to weaponize.
#Orality
July 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The past 500 years has proven you can be #Literate and not be the smart.
You can be #Aliterate and smart.
The more we bucket intelligence with literacy, the more we throw fuel on the fire for some to weaponize.
#Orality
You can be #Aliterate and smart.
The more we bucket intelligence with literacy, the more we throw fuel on the fire for some to weaponize.
#Orality
Um… ya. But I fear the intellectual superiority of it all. What will this opinion do to enrage the aliterate?
www.vox.com/politics/414...
www.vox.com/politics/414...
Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics?
Your brain isn’t what it used to be.
www.vox.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Um… ya. But I fear the intellectual superiority of it all. What will this opinion do to enrage the aliterate?
www.vox.com/politics/414...
www.vox.com/politics/414...
2 days; 2 posts exploring Ong #orality #aliterate
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We are deep in “it” - Who is Nick?
Back to the exploration of Ong's characteristics of an Oral Culture. Focusing on "Empathetic and Participatory Rather than Objectively Distanced
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June 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
2 days; 2 posts exploring Ong #orality #aliterate
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Alice Mary Hilton is as significant as Marshall McLuhan in the history of cyberculture theory. In fact, she invented the word! Also, her 1960s focus on the practical impacts of computer automation on society is more important than ever in 2025, with the rise of AI. cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu...
Cyberculture 1960s-1990s and the Legacy of Alice Mary Hilton
The word 'cyberculture' was coined by Alice Mary Hilton in 1963 and by the mid-90s was in common use. But Hilton never got her due, especially compared to her contemporary Marshall McLuhan.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Alice Mary Hilton is as significant as Marshall McLuhan in the history of cyberculture theory. In fact, she invented the word! Also, her 1960s focus on the practical impacts of computer automation on society is more important than ever in 2025, with the rise of AI. cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu...
Super excited for an actual filing cabinet in the house. The big metal ones. Clunk, filed! 🗄️
More excited than I should be???? It's similar to the day I was actually excited about buying a new vacuum.
More excited than I should be???? It's similar to the day I was actually excited about buying a new vacuum.
March 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Super excited for an actual filing cabinet in the house. The big metal ones. Clunk, filed! 🗄️
More excited than I should be???? It's similar to the day I was actually excited about buying a new vacuum.
More excited than I should be???? It's similar to the day I was actually excited about buying a new vacuum.
I've been going through Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality and comparing to today. Not done, but slowly crossing them off the list and my own little #ADHD way.
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Ong’s Oral Culture Recap - Who is Nick?
Where was I? I've forgotten where I was in reflecting on Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality with our current culture. So this recap is partly for me as it is you. Sounded Word as Power and Action You Kno...
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March 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I've been going through Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality and comparing to today. Not done, but slowly crossing them off the list and my own little #ADHD way.
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I was going to tweak my "Into the Postliterate" feed to remove refs to McLuhan because, at the time, it seemed like most people who use his name felt off the mark to me. But since the Jan 20, I'm glad I kept it.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I was going to tweak my "Into the Postliterate" feed to remove refs to McLuhan because, at the time, it seemed like most people who use his name felt off the mark to me. But since the Jan 20, I'm glad I kept it.
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