RastaHappy #AprilFools day to all who celebrate
Mark Crocker@Rasta I was fooled by one video almost to the halfway point... but in my defense, it was still March 31 in my timezone 😋 so, as the patent post suggested no skepticism required 😉
@Rasta this sort of reminds me of the theme in @pluralistic 's Eastern standard tribe https://books.mxhdr.net/book/105839/s/eastern-standard-tribe . Although the book didn't do a great job of predicting the social media future, the basic concept of timezones affecting who one associates with despite the modern internet breaking down many geographic barriers, was a good insight.
Eastern standard tribe - MXHDR BookWyrm
<p>Art is a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe, a secret society bound together by a sleep schedule. Around the world, those who wake and sleep on East Coast time find common cause with one another, cooperating, conspiring, to help each other out, coordinated by a global network of Wi-Fi, instant messaging, ubiquitous computing, and a shared love of Manhattan-style bagels. Or perhaps not. Art is, after all, in the nuthouse. He was put there by a conspiracy of his friends and loved ones, fellow travelers from EST hidden in the bowels of Greenwich Mean Time, spies masquerading as management consultants who strive to mire Europe in oatmeal-thick bureaucracy. Eastern Standard Tribe is a story of madness and betrayal, of society after the End of Geography, of the intangible factors that define us as a species, as a tribe, as individuals. Scathing, bitter, and funny, EST examines the immutable truths of time, of sunrise and sunset of societies smashed and rebuilt in the storm of instant, ubiquitous communication.</p>