Posts by JacksonP
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'd love to do something with a serious budget one day, though. That would be good.
The lack of budget didn't show, from where I was sitting/standing/crouching during various stages of the evening. Buckwheat and co were also a real spectacle.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
mandatory
Good luck with that. Who we gonna send round as the enforcer? Actually, no need to answer that question. ;-)
Reflecting further on last night, the message I took away, FWIW, was that being in the margins of society is not a passive state. 'We' are not of the margins so much as marginalised. By ignorance, intolerance, injustice, indifference, insolvency, not to mention being 'in with the in crowd'.
Jacinda Ardern raised the issue of too much of the ideological (or institutional) response to 'difference' being built on the premise that individuals should be assisted in rising above their personal circumstances, so they eventually turn out 'alright'. But this is defeatist and accepts there is nothing that can be done about those circumstances from a 'societal' sense.
So the old cliché of ambulatory cliff diving rings true.
It is hard to articulate the scope of the issues raised last night. I would encourage everyone to listen to the RNZ broadcast, although I will be interested to see how they deal with some of the free ranging discussion (i.e. expletives). Lady Hillary seemed comfortable enough though.
Well done again Russell. You do this stuff extremely well. And Phillip Patston is a bloody legend.
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Hard News: LATE OCTOBER: Life in the…, in reply to Sacha,
So so pleased I came, and my friend Steve loved it, also. Mate, you're a legend.
+1
and thank you for your generosity this evening, too.
+2
Was a great, thought provoking, evening. Made me think so hard my brain hurts.
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I'm a bit lost for words. Love you man. Is that too much?
Oh well. From helping to install the Apple 11e computers in our school in 1981, to every computer, music playing device, mobile, laptop we own being an Apple, including those at work, kind of feels like the creator with the master plan is AWOL.
RIP Steve.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to James Butler,
He gave up on that a few weeks ago, after a slightly heated exchange where it turned out that he could DM his followers, but no-one could DM him back, I believe.
Actually I'd like to read a thesis on the experience he had as a one-sided tweeter.
But first I have to reconcile the news of another person passing before their time from the big disease with an astrological name.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to BenWilson,
Twitter seems to be only milestones, the rest of the journey is an irrelevant blur, happening in another time or place. A Twitter thread is like hearing a summary of a party that you weren't at. You had to be there to really see why you all laughed so hard you wet your pants.
Interesting thoughts. I find increasingly the inter-textuality and meta-fictive devices can develop within a twitter stream beyond what might be expected of 140 characters. The #thistweetreferstomyprevioustweet or #ttrtmpt is increasingly used to tie ideas together, and the dialogue can flow in ways normal conversation might struggle to. Partly because while it doesn't always seem so, people are constructing a response.
Certainly at times you can feel like you came late to the party, have tried every tactic to break into a conversation and can sense the eye rolling and sideways glances. Then it can be fun just to watch from the corner.
I'm surprised too by how compelling a trending topic can get, and the clever witticisms on display. Lets just say Gio, among others here, on a roll is fun to watch.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to BenWilson,
Hmmm, 8KB should be enough, who writes more than 8KB in a single blog comment?"
Yeah, who would do that? ;-)
ETA:
According to The Wall Street Journal, there are 50 million regular twits.
Isn't it great how they can say that and no one even blinks. Except I did.
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Field Theory: The Cup Continues, in reply to Hadyn Green,
See I want Weepu in the spot, he's a playmaker and can kick. I think it'd be GENIUS!
+1. Cometh the hour, cometh the man (leave it alone).
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
maybe Facebook can recreate people from their online presence
and synaptic choices and processes - in fact how do we know anyone else is out there, really?You've just nailed it. Mark Zuckerberg is actually Iain M. Banks and Facebook is just part of an elaborate plot detail for his next Culture novel;
Surface Retail.
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Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Gareth Ward,
passively opaque magic
For some reason I just found myself singing;
And you may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"
And you may ask yourself, "Where is that large automobile?"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house"
And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife"Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the blue again, after the money's gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground