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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

Joy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It is looking like it might go on first attempt!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuel loading has gone well so far!

 

♪ To make it real, really real ♪ ♪ She says ♪ ♪ You just have to be here ♪ ♪ On this satellite ♪ ♪ Satellite ♪ ♪ Had to be here ♪ ♪ On this satellite ♪ ♪ Satellite ♪ ♪ Had to be here ♪ ♪ On this satellite ♪ ♪ Had to be here ♪ ♪ On this satellite ♪

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

current predictions on launch date?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s already like that here, friend.

Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.

Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.

Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.

Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.

 

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."

 

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.

 

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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