The story of photographic collage artist Richard G. Ramsdell reminds me of this (perhaps once very Internet famous) Internet koan from futurist and science-fiction author Cory Doctorow (of Electronic Frontier Foundation and Creative Commons fame) that goes something like,

"The biggest threat to authors today (in the early 2000's) is not theft of work, but of falling into obscurity."

More details on Richard G. Ramsdell and the "Cooper Family Photo/Falling Body Creepy Pasta" Internet creepy photo meme:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V44Ha1eZF8

#fz_webVideos #fzWebVideos #InternetMeme #InternetCulture #InternetAnthropology

The insane influencer logic that tricked millions of people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g_9xZNdRI

#CarrotsAreFood #BarbarianCarrotLady #PaleoDietGrift #FramingDevice #HistoricalDishonesty #AppealToEmotion #FearUncertaintyDoubt #FramingLogic

video link hat-tip to shava23.bsky.social

Throwback from 2023:

As has been well-established for quite some time now, the problem with social media is mainly sociological not technological. Even technological adjustments to social media sorely need to be firmly grounded on good sociological analyses.

…And anyone can distrust and/or vilify Marshall McLuhan all they want, but that doesn't change the fact that we humans cannot not communicate, and that communication by default mostly err towards miscommunication.

And the solution to the problem of rampant miscommunication, /is not/ to stop communicating, but rather to communicate better.

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#fzThinkingOutLoud #fz_thinkingOutLoud #SocialMedia #Communication #SocialInteraction #SocialMedia #SocialInteraction

Originally posted at Mastodon dot Cloud:
-> https://mastodon.cloud/@FerdiZ/111328451156426589

Social media is now so broken because most social media users can no longer have an honest and real conversation with another social media user anymore. Not while being complete strangers to each other.

Complete strangers can no longer trust each other on the Internet anymore. Not even in a parasocial context.

Breaking this global sociological trend is a very real, modern challenge in this current "post-truth" information age.

#fzThinkingOutLoud #fzThinkingOutLoud

This video—published just one week but I only watched just now—was how I learned that Finale was finally discontinued last year. Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHzaU

I'm not a music student, I studied communications in college, but I did dabble in a little bit of music back then and I once used Finale to write down one single little, /very amateurish/ classical guitar etude in Finale that I had messed around with on my guitar for years by then at the time. The finale file might still be somewhere among my old hard drives & old PCs, might even be somewhere in my Google Drive or MS OneDrive or DropBox or something. I doubt I could convert it to MusicXML to rescue it at this time, even if I could find it again.

Anyways, loved the video. Very surreal. One hour long fair warning.

(And yes my use of em dashes in this post is intentional.)

#Tantacrul #Finale #GUIsoftwareDesign #MusicNotation #YouTube