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The pieces are short and weird. One is on YouTube,

the other an important Quiz.

Let's talk about da Tube

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1) It's a feed.

I once saw an ad (naturally) for an

education product that implied it would

be good if (and further implying their

services would achieve) students feeding

their minds instead of minding feeds.

Cute. Also, the thing about being hooked

up to a feed is that it makes you suck.

2) It's an anti-social media.

The whole racket of the digital

behavioralist is to engage fight-or-flight

responses. They are always trying to piss

you off or scare you. The only way out is

to have never engaged in politics -- and

blessed are those who haven't.

3) Otherwise, it works to make you

narrow

If da Tube can't drag you into indignation,

then it follows the logic of Amazon -- oh,

you were looking for a toilet once? You must

want nothing but toilets for all of

eternity.

Open-Universe Quiz

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(Use your resources!)

"When you trust your ___(1)___

What you get is what you got,

'Cause when they own the information,

oh, they can ___(2)_____ ."

From a song by (3)

(1)

A.) television

B.) loved ones

C.) inner Voice

D.) all of the above

(2)

A.) take you to the Mont

B.) deal with a blot clot

C.) bend it how they want

D.) none of the above

(3)

I) John Mayer

II) the universe experiencing

itself, subjectively.

A.) just I

B.) just II

C.) I and II

D.) none of the above

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I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus

"net" (so, a work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at

sdf.org.

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