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Global Theatrical Skitsoanalysis
AMA re: McLuhan
👉Computers are just insensible, convoluted telegraph circuits.👈

/r/StallmanWasRight

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http://concernednetizen.com Global Theatrical Skitsoanalysis AMA re: McLuhan 👉Computers are just insensible, convoluted telegraph circuits.👈 /r/StallmanWasRight

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“Smartphones” and “social media" were intentional fractures—manufactured cultural discontinuities—from the storied history of microcomputers and computer networking. The baggage of acquired wisdom had to be jettisoned so that consumers would over-share with reckless abandon.

this is now an infinite jest review account. first point of order: the reason all movies are bad now is related to why all movies are about nostalgia and take place before the year 2007, either literally or spiritually. 2007 being the release of the first iphone. the…



“Every age has its reigning analogy in terms of which it orients itself with respect to the past and directs its energies through the present to the future. To be contemporary in the good sense is to be aware of this analogy. To be ‘ahead of the time’ is to be critically aware…


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In Mark Carney's 500 page costly budget, there's only 6 combined mentions of Mental Health and Addictions, with NO new investment or plans for recovery. The opioid crisis has killed more Canadians than World War II. But it's not a priority for this Liberal government.


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The Jays were the better team because they would make a better subject for an epic poem.


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Android was successful due to being an open source OS providing an open platform. Current Android leadership is running it into the ground with layoffs and killing off the reasons it was a successful platform. You use security as an excuse for changes actually making that worse.


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Wow. I finally have an inroads to start reading McLuhan:

It's a very good question. While I'm sure the maturity that come with becoming a father to six kids has a lot to do with it, he was also red-pilled on secret societies and esoteric wisdom in a radical awakening experience during the summer of 1952, while reading Coleridge (as…

clintonthegeek's tweet image. It's a very good question.

While I'm sure the maturity that come with becoming a father to six kids has a lot to do with it, he was also red-pilled on secret societies and esoteric wisdom in a radical awakening experience during the summer of 1952, while reading Coleridge (as…


The degree to which McLuhan tempered his flippancy and wit in The Mechanical Bride from its earlier incarnations would blow you away.

clintonthegeek's tweet image. The degree to which McLuhan tempered his flippancy and wit in The Mechanical Bride from its earlier incarnations would blow you away.

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Oddly poignant message from Discord this morning: "In voice chat, everyone's a spirit."


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“Any new structure for codifying experience and of moving information has the power of imposing its structural character and assumptions upon all levels of our private and social lives.” Marshall McLuhan ‘New Media and the New Education’ 1960


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In which I weigh in, but not in the expected way. I wonder how much universities are to blame for the debate itself. @compactmag_

anecdotal's tweet image. In which I weigh in, but not in the expected way. I wonder how much universities are to blame for the debate itself. @compactmag_

EIGHTEENTH INNING LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO @BlueJays


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Every one of these people were right and they got more and more right as time went on. The decline has been steady and conspicuous.

xwanyex's tweet image. Every one of these people were right and they got more and more right as time went on. The decline has been steady and conspicuous.

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Day 21 of “I can’t believe @joerogan hasn’t had someone on yet to talk about McLuhan.”

it’s actually wild that @joerogan hasn’t had someone on yet to talk about McLuhan.



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Once again I am asking for incomprehensibly wealthy people to make a small contribution in supporting education that will help keep human beings truly human.


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reverse engineer yourself


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