Alas, you are right. Very good points. It’s like we’re all being carried along in this huge flood. in the beginning when I used Instagram I was following my friends who are artists and keeping up with their work, and posting my own, partly as a sort of ongoing diary of my work. But as things have gone on, I feel like I mainly encounter advertisements I like Substack, let’s hope it doesn’t get overly corrupted.
HNY John. Good for you! I am also appalled by Zuckerberg's irresponsible abdication of fact-checking. I'm not on instagram either.
It sounds like you and I may be reading some of the same substacks - Robert Hubbell and Andy Borowitz. I read a few others too including Heather Cox Richardson who is great. I hope you and the family are all well!
"Goodbye Instagram" - no surprise when it comes to John Palmer Edwards - is thought-provoking and well worth reader comments and conversation! But how to "correct," "undo," or later "take back" a substack comment??!
My earlier comments which included links to copies of copyrighted material may violate substack policies. So I have deleted these files from www.chicago-online.com, i.e., those links no longer work.
The link to Ronan Farrow "A Spy in Your Pocket," more correctly is:
It is well worth finding Alternative Radio on your local public or college radio station, and sometimes individual MP3's or PDF's of broadcasts are offered for free.
"Asif Kapadia: Pushing the boundaries of filmmaking" - BBC HARDtalk -
"Sarah Montague speaks to award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia. His latest film '2073' combines science fiction with documentary to paint a bleak picture of our possible future: a world destroyed by climate change, authoritarian dictators and tech oligarchs. Why produce something so political now?"
A plus for NPR - at least in Albany and Chicago - is that at night they turn over their (mostly) insipid and commercial-laden programming to the BBC. Asif Kapadia, along with thought-leader John Palmer Edwards, is among those who have improved their lives by ditching social media!
Alas, you are right. Very good points. It’s like we’re all being carried along in this huge flood. in the beginning when I used Instagram I was following my friends who are artists and keeping up with their work, and posting my own, partly as a sort of ongoing diary of my work. But as things have gone on, I feel like I mainly encounter advertisements I like Substack, let’s hope it doesn’t get overly corrupted.
Bravo!!
For anyone who has not heard (Alternative Radio) or read Koohan Paik-Mander
"Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare," 16 October 2024 . . .
I put a PDF here:
http://chicago-online.com/2024-10-16_Algorithms_Digital_Technologies_%20&_Warfare_%20MANK002-531812670.pdf
-Rick
Wow! And in the tradition of Ronan Farrow!
http://chicago-online.com/videos/A_Spy_in_Your_Pocket_Ronan_Farrow_Democracy_Now.mp4
HNY John. Good for you! I am also appalled by Zuckerberg's irresponsible abdication of fact-checking. I'm not on instagram either.
It sounds like you and I may be reading some of the same substacks - Robert Hubbell and Andy Borowitz. I read a few others too including Heather Cox Richardson who is great. I hope you and the family are all well!
"Goodbye Instagram" - no surprise when it comes to John Palmer Edwards - is thought-provoking and well worth reader comments and conversation! But how to "correct," "undo," or later "take back" a substack comment??!
My earlier comments which included links to copies of copyrighted material may violate substack policies. So I have deleted these files from www.chicago-online.com, i.e., those links no longer work.
The link to Ronan Farrow "A Spy in Your Pocket," more correctly is:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/1/surveilled_spyware
The link to the recent Koohan Paik-Mander "Algorithms, Digital Technologies & Warfare," 16 October 2024 more properly is here:
https://www.alternativeradio.org/
It is well worth finding Alternative Radio on your local public or college radio station, and sometimes individual MP3's or PDF's of broadcasts are offered for free.
"Asif Kapadia: Pushing the boundaries of filmmaking" - BBC HARDtalk -
"Sarah Montague speaks to award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia. His latest film '2073' combines science fiction with documentary to paint a bleak picture of our possible future: a world destroyed by climate change, authoritarian dictators and tech oligarchs. Why produce something so political now?"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5t0s
A plus for NPR - at least in Albany and Chicago - is that at night they turn over their (mostly) insipid and commercial-laden programming to the BBC. Asif Kapadia, along with thought-leader John Palmer Edwards, is among those who have improved their lives by ditching social media!