Tim Bouma

Most corruption is due to self-indulgent stupidity.…

The #trivium as we know it—consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric—wasn’t formally created by the Stoics, but #Stoic philosophy did significantly shape and influence two of these three areas, particularly logic and rhetoric. The concept of the trivium as an organized curriculum came later, primarily through Roman…

“The effect of phonetic literacy on the Greek psyche and culture was devastating. Mimesis gave way to individualized detachment and the integrating oral logos was broken into multiple fragments.” Marshall McLuhan, Laws of Media, published posthumously in 1988.…

Studying Marshall McLuhan, I’ve realized that cryptographic money will eventually have the same effect as the phonetic alphabet. The power of the phonetic alphabet was the semantic meaningless of its symbols that could be mapped to the utterances of any language. The phonetic alphabet was vastly more efficient than…

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… 2) Explain it in simple terms in a #nostr post. 2a) Be kind to those who reply and demand a complete and extraordinary explanation from first principles . 2b) Keep kindly replying, until… 2b) You are blocked. ……

#Nostr, which stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays,” is a decentralized social media protocol designed to offer a more open and resilient alternative to traditional social platforms. Instead of relying on centralized servers and corporate control, Nostr operates on a network of relays where users control their…

Marshall McLuhan’s tetrad of media effects is a framework for understanding how media and technologies impact individuals and societies. It’s a set of four questions designed to reveal a medium’s influence on society by exploring what it enhances, retrieves, obsolesces, and reverses. McLuhan introduced this model in…

Cartesian coordinates turned the Universe into a machine for humans.…

“Gutenberg technology retrieved the entire ancient world.”…

Loving to see more artists and photographers join #nostr. It’s reassuring to see their works on their own terms. @First Man Photography…

No such thing as neutral technology. There I said it.…

Async programming: LIFO FIFO FAFO…