Timex
2765
You cracked the code!
Seriously, you got the only real answer here. Folks should just stop using Facebook.
It’s cute how mobsters and gangsters always want to throw everyone else in jail.
Aporopos of nothing, here is David Bowie’s 1999 take on the internet:
Menzo
2770
That’s pretty impressive, because in 1999 the Internet really was still more of a new delivery system for info than a revolution. No social media, no mobile internet, no YouTube or Netflix (streaming - it existed as a DVD delivery service), etc.
Djscman
2772
He had already been playing with BowieNet for a year at that point. He wanted to be on the bleeding edge of the knife cutting into this “alien life form”.
Nesrie
2773
I feel like I have appreciated Bowie more since he has been gone then he was alive. I mean he was a rising star to a different generation but looking back at these interviews with MTV, now this, just the way he speaks and how he address complex and controversial things is pretty amazing.
RichVR
2774
It’s sad, but this is so common.
I had always kind of liked Bowie without really knowing all his music, and then I saw him perform in a small venue concert — about 200 people — and he absolutely blew me away. This would have been in 2004 or 2005.
Nesrie
2776
I think the issue is there are so many artists, musicians especially, that really meant something to the generations before me that they just hurl them at me, all the time, often while telling me what I grew up with sucks.
I like some of the music, and Bowie did more recent stuff too even, but it’s hard to wade through that mounds of stuff you’re told you’re supposed to car about sprinkled with the resentment the same group has about the stuff that’s well now, and be able to pick out the figures that clearly moved behind their art form.
Bowie seemed to be one of those people, but I, personally, didn’t get to the good stuff until right after his death AND it keeps showing up.
CraigM
2777
Yup.
I never had anything against Bowie, but never really paid him much attention. He was a star of a different generation. I mean his biggest hits and defining images occurred more than a decade prior to me being born. His acting career was more relevant to me than his music.
Besides, Rush and Pink Floyd are far more my style from that era.
One of my biggest regrets is never seeing Bowie live. I had an opportunity in the early 2000s, but I stayed home because I was sick. One of my favorite albums is Ziggy Stardust, which came out like 10 years before I was born. Music was in a pretty shitty place when I was in high school/college. The biggest bands all over the radio were Korn, Linkin Park, garbage like that. barf. So I gravitated to stuff from the past and listened to that a lot in my youth and it’s stuck with me.
Anyway back on topic, here’s today’s Rogan about the ethics of social media. Pretty fascinating conversation
Tman
2779
Reminds me of Marilyn Manson.
Nesrie
2782
I was going to say I don’t really follow his kind of music, but I assume that would be big news if he died.
I’m halfway through that podcast I posted, and I hate it. I don’t hate it because it’s bad, it’s a really intelligent conversation. But the only hope to stop this is public education. So it’s basically hopeless. There is no technology solution, there is no moderation solution, people need to be smarter.
We’re so fucked. Social media is the psychological and sociological equivalent of climate change. Slow, inevitable, destructive. It’s going to do so much more damage before we can adapt. Even if Facebook shut off the servers tomorrow, the technology is part of our lives and another service would replace it immediately.
“Apple is the government that can regulate the attention economy.” FML. But he’s right, Apple is the only one taking steps to disrupt these algorithms. Only because they don’t make money on them, they make money on phones.
Tman
2784
No I mean that Marilyn Manson talks so crazy good and despite outward appearances is one of the most sane people I’ve ever heard talk.
