#TwitterProblemA
#DiaryOfRoundSparrow #TwitterProblemA

"I confess that" - #FWakeY1907 #FWakeApril27

"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the government or Russian tyranny while the #MonoMyth #tyranny occupies the palace of Hollywood audiences and Clergy venues alike." - March 8, 2025
March 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
#CarlSaganWasRight1995 #ArtIntelOpera /\

Carl Sagan described this very media consumer problem in year 1995 in his book. "10 second sound-bite" media. #TwitterProblemA Twitter-Length thinking, Twitter-length messaging systems. #ThisMeansBluesky
February 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#TwitterProblemA

"Because all the troubles that such a life involve are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of little one line joke, you follow me? It’s made banal by it. It’s banalised that way." - Texan Rick Roderick, 1993, "Self Under Siege", Duke University
November 20, 2024 at 5:31 PM
#TwitterProblemA

#FWakeY1971 #FWakeYear1971

Quote is from 1971

‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ in Martin Greenberger (ed.) Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest (1971)
November 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM
#CarlSagan said same thing in 1995 that Neil Postman emphasized in 1985 book

"enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

#TwitterProblemA
November 17, 2024 at 3:38 PM
#TwitterProblemA

November 14, 2024

The Twitter problem persists in Bluesky and Mastodon. Fragmented topic-changing scrolling of a slew of cat photos, advertisements, mixed in with serious topics. Mental context changes.

Amusement park information service, rumor mills, amusement mills.
RoundSparrow 🐦 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image #TwitterProblemA November 14, 2024 The Twitter problem persists in Bluesky and Mastodon. Fragmented topic-changing scrolling of a slew of cat photos, advertisements, mixed in wit...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:27 PM