[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Frantisek Borsik]

*RE:* "I would rather reread Simone de Beauvoir's memoirs, they shall
live in and eat dense worlds that evaluated over real lifetime
(books)."


*https://www.removepaywall.com/https:/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html
<https://www.removepaywall.com/https:/www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/digital-divide-screens-schools.html>*

Me too. Because: *“The digital divide was about access to technology, and
now that everyone has access, the new digital divide is limiting access to
technology.”*

All the best,

Frank

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On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:28 PM Steffen Nurpmeso via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote in
>  <46ef2037-41cb-1735-fdc9-9bca3a3eb930 at meetinghouse.net>:
>  |So now big folks, like Google, just implement things like DMARC,
>  |unilaterally; or stop supporting calendaring standards - and break the
>  |Internet big time.  And then, there's the Great Firewall of China.
>
> India recently cut-off some not so small parts of their country
> from the internet due to deadly ethnic riots (there).  This
> happens all the time.  And let me say: necessarily, and it is
> right.  I would consider keeping my child away from at least
> english wikipedia main page, for example, due to all the totally
> biased, and yes, let me say it, brainwashing with "correct"
> statements, until you look in detaul: a child should be lead to
> the century old historic context, to learn about the respect that
> is due, instead of having to read the garbage that is vomitted
> onto main pages due to today's (more than questionable) political
> desires -- of the U.S., in this example.
>
>  |Remember when interoperability was a thing, and a design goal
>  |approaching a mandate.  Now we're going back to walled gardens. Sigh...
>  |</rant>
>
> Child locks are not hundred percent secure.  Oh, and how i would
> have become outraged to find myself in such a lock as a child.
> (Despite the normal "nationally-agreed-in" census that is
> everywhere, or, like the German superstar Herbert Grönemeyer sang
> hm about 40 years ago, "wir werden dosiert zensiert [, Menschen
> achtlos diffamiert]", "we are dosedly censored [, humans
> carelessly defamed]".  That was ~15 years before his wife died,
> resulting in his mostly human album "Mensch", "Human"; 'and still
> remembering Sir Paul McCartney's famous Cavern Club performance,
> .. December 1999?  Around the same time.)
>
> The Chinese now want to incur maximum internet usage time for
> children.  I think two hours for 16/17 year old, and about 40
> Minutes for younger-than-ten, iirc.  Parents can do something
> about this.  Many parents would still claim this is too much!
> I would rather reread Simone de Beauvoir's memoirs, they shall
> live in and eat dense worlds that evaluated over real lifetime
> (books).  And "hear that crack" Simone is talking about.
>
> Sometimes throats gets slipped!
> I am more concerned about invisible firewalls that are silently
> agreed with in very large extent, and "bullshitted further upon"
> even, building upon that
>
>   I believe the perception caused by civilian casualties is one of
>   the most dangerous enemies we face.
>
> of US-General Stanley A. McCrystal.  I recently read again the
> "four dragons by the mekong", a really good book that truly
> strives for (some) context and tries to shed light on all sides,
> of the wonderful  german journalist Winfried Scharlau, i wish
> someone like him would still be present.
> I think the time has come to swing the pendulum back, it has swung
> so long and so far in one direction, after the "open journalism"
> of the Vietnam war, which of course was also short-sighted,
> uninformed, hyping false understandings etc.
>
> So if there is only a mob of zombies that hysterically screams
> "meat!" and runs for it, no matter what, then i think something
> has to be done.  Yes.  As long as truth shines through.  This is
> even Christian.  1. Mose 5:3, Adam seems to have grown to 930
> years.  Things are worse in my German translation of the Quran,
> you only can look high to get through the translators comments :),
> so i am following Rainer-Maria Rilke's conclusion that the islam
> is a "religion of the undisguised space", of pure creature
> feeling: earth can be perceived as a "pure star": "creatureliness
> of the earth can appear pure and undisguised".
>
> The religions, as far as i can tell, and as many as i know, do not
> think it is easy, and that it can be gained fast.
> I think they are right.
> So whereas techically i am all in favour of what you say on
> interoperability, (i personally even think there are too many
> standards, and that it all shall be minimized: nothing against
> young man or some sophisticated man/woman striving to reach
> a target, and gaining some "fame", but then it shall be good;
> there are things more important than working 60-90 hours a week,
> one day it comes out as just an addiction of a "horse running
> away" (Germany lost Martin Walser last week iirc)), i do not think
> you can compare commercial walled gardens with walls incurred by
> some "higher" principle.  You may now be of an opinion on the
> "quality" of that "higher principle", and want "freedom".
> You (especially as the hard-core US american i see you as) may be
> right, but i personally have great doubts, also, and especially,
> when looking at the state of our planet, and the responsibility
> that "freedom" accounts on that.
> One thing is plain: the sheer number of lies and shortcutted
> contexts, and "blankings", regarding several of todays conflicts,
> seems to support my point of view.
>
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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