nostr Loving to see more artists and photographers join #nostr. It’s reassuring to see their works on their own terms. @First Man Photography… Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 1:41 PM
This book is legend. After his book, “Understanding Media”, the publishers wouldn’t touch Marshall McLuhan’s follow-on book. It was published posthumously in 1988. I could only get my hands on a scanned pdf version and I had to buy a full-size Kindle to read it (first… Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 1:21 PM
“In the electric age, the alteration of human identity by new service environments of information has left whole population without personal or community values to a degree that far exceeds the effects of food and fuel and energy shortages.” f***king legend observation by Marshall McLuhan in Laws of Media. Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 1:10 PM
I have a ChatGPT trained on helping me with the works of Marshall McLuhan. I have read the main source material and would be hard pressed to better synthesize and summarize better than this. This saves me a day’s worth of work of writing on my own to better… Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 12:57 PM
A photo of our family farm on auction day in 1996. You can see the blue bay in the background, the machinery for sale in the foreground.… Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 12:50 PM
How would Marshall McLuhan characterize proof of work of Bitcoin invented by Satoshi Nakamoto. ChatGPT answer (it’s good, I’ve reviewed it). The tetrad analysis (enhance, obsolesce, retrieve and reverse) is pretty good too! ——— Marshall McLuhan would likely interpret Bitcoin’s proof of work (PoW) system as an innovative… Tim Bouma Nov 2, 2024, 12:36 PM
