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STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 TOMSH1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND With my pony Tom, March 1953 BRIS3 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND bris3. Published 2017/04/27 at 244 × 282 in The Weirdstone ofBrisingamen.
GRUMPY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND grumpy. Published 2016/04/23 at 328 × 397 in Grumpy old git recommends The Guardian. IECPROTEST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Silent protesters at President Jacob Zuma's speech at the IEC's final election results meeting CIITICIZE | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Ciiticize. Published 2016/02/21 at 640 × 360 in Is “politically correct” a euphemism for “euphemism”?TELKOMQUOTA
TelkomQuota. Published 2016/08/28 at 500 × 525 in It’s a good thing that no one is reading this. CWLF70 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Christian World Liberation Front, Berkeley, California, 1970 FIREFOX1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 TOMSH1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND With my pony Tom, March 1953 BRIS3 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND bris3. Published 2017/04/27 at 244 × 282 in The Weirdstone ofBrisingamen.
GRUMPY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND grumpy. Published 2016/04/23 at 328 × 397 in Grumpy old git recommends The Guardian. IECPROTEST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Silent protesters at President Jacob Zuma's speech at the IEC's final election results meeting CIITICIZE | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Ciiticize. Published 2016/02/21 at 640 × 360 in Is “politically correct” a euphemism for “euphemism”?TELKOMQUOTA
TelkomQuota. Published 2016/08/28 at 500 × 525 in It’s a good thing that no one is reading this. CWLF70 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Christian World Liberation Front, Berkeley, California, 1970 FIREFOX1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. MAUS | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 HALAAL | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Illustration attached to City Press "Halaal" article. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أنا الخاطئWHITEGENOCIDE2
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CWLF70 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Christian World Liberation Front, Berkeley, California, 1970 IECPROTEST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Silent protesters at President Jacob Zuma's speech at the IEC's final election results meetingNESTLEFREEZONE
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WEATHERMONGER
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MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND MountAdv. Published 2017/07/08 at 198 × 290 in The Mountain of Adventure (more Enid Blyton) WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. VAUX | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Vaux. Published 2018/01/13 at 800 × 1152 in Divisions of England,then and now.
STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. YGROUPS2 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND YGroups2. Published 2019/10/17 at 300 × 267 in Yahoo! to closemailing lists?
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next. PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
WEATHERMONGER
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MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND MountAdv. Published 2017/07/08 at 198 × 290 in The Mountain of Adventure (more Enid Blyton) WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. VAUX | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Vaux. Published 2018/01/13 at 800 × 1152 in Divisions of England,then and now.
STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. YGROUPS2 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND YGroups2. Published 2019/10/17 at 300 × 267 in Yahoo! to closemailing lists?
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next. NEWBROWN | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أناالخاطئ
STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. BOSTONT1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND The Boston T — August 1995 BOSTONT | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND BostonT. Published 2016/08/19 at 475 × 363 in Networking and consciousness. The Boston T. VICBRAY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND vicbray. Published 2016/11/27 at 225 × 225 in Political correctness.The Vicar of Bray.
WHITEGENOCIDE2
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NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more.FRANK-SINATRA
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PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
BOSTONT | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND BostonT. Published 2016/08/19 at 475 × 363 in Networking and consciousness. The Boston T. VICBRAY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND vicbray. Published 2016/11/27 at 225 × 225 in Political correctness.The Vicar of Bray.
WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. NEWBROWN | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أناالخاطئ
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TelkomQuota. Published 2016/08/28 at 500 × 525 in It’s a good thing that no one is reading this. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next.WEATHERMONGER
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PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
BOSTONT | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND BostonT. Published 2016/08/19 at 475 × 363 in Networking and consciousness. The Boston T. VICBRAY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND vicbray. Published 2016/11/27 at 225 × 225 in Political correctness.The Vicar of Bray.
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TELKOMQUOTA
TelkomQuota. Published 2016/08/28 at 500 × 525 in It’s a good thing that no one is reading this. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next. NEWBROWN | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أناالخاطئ
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IMG586 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Durham Cathedral, above the bamnks of the River Wear, where Mda's character Toloki was conceived BATAD1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Bathabile Dlamini, Minister of Social DevelopmentTELKOMQUOTA
TelkomQuota. Published 2016/08/28 at 500 × 525 in It’s a good thing that no one is reading this. CWLF70 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Christian World Liberation Front, Berkeley, California, 1970 GRUMPY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND grumpy. Published 2016/04/23 at 328 × 397 in Grumpy old git recommends The Guardian.WEATHERMONGER
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BOSTONT1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND The Boston T -- August 1995. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أناالخاطئ
PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND MountAdv. Published 2017/07/08 at 198 × 290 in The Mountain of Adventure (more Enid Blyton)WHITEGENOCIDE2
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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next.WEATHERMONGER
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BOSTONT1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND The Boston T -- August 1995. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أناالخاطئ
PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND MountAdv. Published 2017/07/08 at 198 × 290 in The Mountain of Adventure (more Enid Blyton)WHITEGENOCIDE2
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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next. HALAAL | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Illustration attached to City Press "Halaal" article. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أنا الخاطئ BOSTONT1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND The Boston T — August 1995 STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 VAUX | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Vaux. Published 2018/01/13 at 800 × 1152 in Divisions of England,then and now.
BOSTONT | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND BostonT. Published 2016/08/19 at 475 × 363 in Networking and consciousness. The Boston T.GOANIKONTES
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PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. YGROUPS2 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND YGroups2. Published 2019/10/17 at 300 × 267 in Yahoo! to closemailing lists?
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Visit the post for more. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next.WEATHERMONGER
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PLACELION | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND PlaceLion. Published 2020/01/04 at 220 × 322 in Some books we read in2019.
MOUNTADV | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. WOMENS+MARCH+UNION+BUILDINGS Women's March to the Union Buildings, 9 August 1956, protesting against a law requiring black women to carry passes. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more. YGROUPS2 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND YGroups2. Published 2019/10/17 at 300 × 267 in Yahoo! to closemailing lists?
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Visit the post for more. NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Tulku by Peter Dickinson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve just read it for the third time. Perhaps that should make me an expert on the book, but reading it at intervals of 19 years meant that I don’t remember much from one reading to the next. STHMERST | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Steve Hayes at Merstham, August 1967 HALAAL | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Illustration attached to City Press "Halaal" article. Notes from underground يارب يسوع المسيح ابن اللّه الحيّ إرحمني أنا الخاطئ VICBRAY | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND vicbray. Published 2016/11/27 at 225 × 225 in Political correctness.The Vicar of Bray.
BOSTONT | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND BostonT. Published 2016/08/19 at 475 × 363 in Networking and consciousness. The Boston T. NESTLE1 | NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Visit the post for more.WHITEGENOCIDE2
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THOUGHTS ON THE 2019 RUGBY WORLD CUP Yesterday South Africa won the Rugby World Cup (RWC), beating England32-12.
It
was quite a big deal. It’s one of the few sporting fields where South Africa has excelled, though most seem to have been unaware that we won the African Netball Chamionship in 2019 as well, but perhaps for a macho nation that isn’t so important because netball is played by women. I watched the first half of the RWC on TV, but at halftime I had to go to fetch my wife Val from hospital where she had just had a knee operation. There was very little traffic on the roads — it seemed that everyone was at home watching it on TV. Listening on the radio was a bit confusing, because the commentators mentioned the names of the players, but not which teams they were playing for, so unless it was an obviously South African name one wasn’t sure which team wasgetting the ball.
We
were permitted to watch the final, but for most South Africans the route by which South Africa got to the final was obscure, because only the rich were permitted to watch it on TV, as it was on the most expensive pay channel, and so probably most South Africans who watched the final were seeing the team in action for the first time. They didn’t know who the players were, and their faces were unfamiliar. The net effect of this is that rugby will remain an elite sport. For most young people their sporting heroes will not be rugby players, but players of sports that the _hoi polloi_ are permitted to watch regularly. I recall how much soccer increased in popularity after the whole of the 1990 Soccer World Cup was broadcast in South Africa in 1990 for the first time. But rugby seems to be condemned to obscurity. A pity, because South Africa has won the Rugby World cup three times, but has never won the world cup in soccer or cricket, the other popular team sports. On the question and answer site Quora someone asked: What does South Africa’s 2019 Rugby World Cup mean to its citizens? What are some of the social implications of their triumph on thepitch?
And my answer was that it was cheering, to those who might have been worried when one of those ratings agencies pronounced South Africa’s economic prospects to be “negative”. So it was nice to have some good news for a change. We may have high unemployment, but at least we play rugby better than anyone else in the world. Many pictures have been posted on social media to illustrate South Africa’s reaction to winning the Rugby World Cup for the third time in 24 years, but I think the two photos here sum up the reaction best. Posted in South Africaand
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THE MÜLLER-FOKKER EFFECTThe
Müller-Fokker Effectby John Sladek
A couple of weeks ago I read Singularity, which is
about a hypotheitcal moment when computers surpass human intelligence and human consciousness. That reminded me of this book, which I read 45 years ago, since it is also about digitising human consciousness. So I thought I would re-read this one to remind me what it was about, and to compare it with the kind of things people are saying about “the Singularity”In
this book Bob Shairp works for National Arsenamid, and is transferred to a different branch where his new task is to be the guinea-pig in an experiment to see if it is possible to back up a human being on tape. The recording process is under way when some white supremacists break into the lab, convinced that it is an attempt to transplant a nigger brain into a white man, so they kill Bob, and the tapes are dispersed. One of them falls into the hands of an evangelist, who captures himself on it and programs an android to preach for him when he is ill or would rather be doing something else. Another falls into the handsof the military.
Bob’s son, Spot, is sent to a military school where he is desperately unhappy, and his mother goes into advertising, where she meets a salesman for a process of freezing people. Bob Shairp has a series of bizarre adventures in his taped form, as do most of the other characters, though for the most part in their actual bodies rather than on tape. It’s an extended satire on 1970s America, sending up manufacturing, advertising, the military and militarism, journalism (notably _Playboy)_, politics and ideologies, especially white supremacy and fanatical anti-communist conspiracy theorists.Concerning
the last, one can read it as a send-up of The Da Vinci Code,
as the conspiracy theorists decipher codes that are more and more complex. A nice touch, satirising a book before it is published. Of course it’s not the only one to have done that. Umberto Eco, the author of Foucault’s Pendulum, insisted that Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci code, was a character in one of his novels. In that respect it anticipates several books. It also predicts that Ronald Reagan would become US president (Nixon was president at the time itwas written).
After 45 years I’d forgotten how funny it was (in parts, anyway), and in retrospect it also throws light on some subsequent developments, technical (the Singularity), cultural and political.View all my reviews
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INKLINGS ON THE INTERNET One of my interests is the English literary group of the 1920s to 1940s that called themselves “The Inklings”, and as a number of other people share this interest I’ve tried at various times to find ways of using the Internet to make and maintain contact with such people and share thoughts and opinions and so on. One way of doing this is through blog posts, many bloggers announce new posts on Twitter. I also discovered a web site called paper.li that produced a digest of tweets on various topics. Some of them seem to be devoted to hash tags, and I succeeded in creating one for missiology (another interest of mine), There were several created by other people on various topics that interested me — on literature, genealogy, family history and more. There’s one for children’s literature , which some of the Inklings wrote, But there was no such digest devoted to the #inklings hashtag.So
I thought that if I could create one for #missiology, I could createone for #inklings.
Too late. The people at paper.li had stopped doing that very useful thing. Whenever i tried to do it, they created something called “The Steve Hayes Daily”, and I already had one of those . But eventually they fiddled with it to turn it into The Inklings Daily . The only trouble is that it doesn’t seem to work. Either people are not using the #inklings hashtag, or else when they do use it, _The Inklings Daily_ simply isn’t picking it up. All I see on it most days is either a message that there is no content, or a couple of irrelevant photos. So as a way of following blog posts about the Inklings it has turned out to be pretty useless. The last straw was when the owners of YahooGroups announced that they were closing that service, and there were a couple of Inklings forums there that would be affected by the closure, and so it was important to let people know, and I blogged about that. But
in spite of using the #inklings #hashtag paper.li failed to pick it up in _The Inklings Daily_. So I’ll give it a couple more weeks, and see if The Inklings Daily picks up this article, and any others on the Inklings, and if there’s no improvement, I’ll delete _The Inklings Daily_, as it will obviously be serving no purpose. I’ll rely on my blogroll for picking up who is blogging about the Inklings. And if you’d like to know more about the new Inklings forum, see Inklings Forum Revived, or
go directly to Inklings on groups.io . For what it’s worth, the main members of the Inklings were:* Owen Barfield
* J. A. W. Bennett
* Lord David Cecil
* Nevill Coghill
* Hugo Dyson
* Adam Fox
* J. H. Grant III
* Roger Lancelyn Green* Robert Havard
* C. S. Lewis
* Camille Smith (cousin of C.S. Lewis) * Warren Lewis (C. S. Lewis’s elder brother)* J. R. R. Tolkien
* Christopher Tolkien(J. R. R.
Tolkien’s son)
* Charles Williams
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MAILING LISTS (& NEWSGROUPS) VERSUS FACEBOOK GROUPS The news that Yahoo! were to close their YahooGroups service (Yahoo! to close mailing lists? | Notes from underground)
has provoked a frantic search for alternatives, one of the most popular being Groups.io , which I believe was set up a few years ago when Yahoo! imported a new whizz-kid manager who totally misunderstood the medium, and messed the site up so as to make it unusable.Yahoo made a half-hearted attempt to repair the damage, but now seems to have given up entirely.YahooGroups
and GoogleGroups were the largest public mailing list servers on the Internet, and with YahooGroups closing some have suggested migrating to GoogleGroups, but many more have suggested using Facebook Groups instead. I think that is a very bad idea, and will try to explain that here, rather than having to retype the explanation every time anyone makes such a suggestion. Marshall McLuhan once wrote a book calledUnderstanding Media
,
and though he never envisaged these media, it is still important to understand these media and what they are good for and, even more important, what they are not good for. FACEBOOK GROUPS VERSUS MAILING LISTS People who are relatively new to the Internet may not realise what mailing lists are, so I’ll try to explain that first. A mailing list is run by a list server (sometimes called “listserv” for short). It works by e-mail. You send an e-mail to the list server, and the list server sends it on to all the people who have subscribed to that list. You can reply either to the list, or to the original sender. Off-topic replies are best sent privately, on-topic replies are best sent to the list, then all members of the list will see the replies, as they will show up in their e-mail inbox, to be read or deleted or saved as desired,The
main purpose of a mailing list is DISCUSSION. You can see what someone says, and respond to particular points, and others can respond to whatyou say.
Facebook Groups are not really suited for discussion. I know that people have tried to use them that way, but they are a very poor substitute for mailing lists. Facebook Groups are best suited for announcements and ephemera. Announce a book release, an article, or a blog post in a Facebook group for people who might be interested in knowing about it. Announce an event and publicise things — a church service, a lecture, an art exhibition, a play. They are OK for newsitems.
What Facebook Groups are not good for is discussion.Why not?
First of all, Facebook has an algorithm that limits what you see. It will show you only certain posts from certain groups and people. If people respond to it, it shows you only certain comments. It may notify you that “So and so commented on a post that you are following in X group”, but it doesn’t tell you the topic of the post. And if you do click on that, half the time you don’t see any comments from so and so, and you have to hunt up and down the page until you see a tiny faint line saying something like “5 more comments”. You click on that, but it has no comments from so and so. You go back and hunt up and down and eventually you find another faint little line somewhere on the page saying “See more comments”. In the midst of all that activity, Facebook of course is busy showing you ads and other stuff to distract you and in the end you forget whose comment you were looking for and what topic it was on.And
then, assuming that Facebook does show you the post, you don’t have time to read it now, and you think you’ll come back to it later. O fatal, fatal error! Because when you try to come back to it later, you’ll never find it again, and spend an hour searching for it, and in the mean time see lots of ads earning lots of lovely lolly for Facebook, and see other interesting things to click on. It’s like looking up words in a dictionary — you spot another interesting word, and look at that, and see an interesting word in its definition and look that up and then forget what word you were looking for when you started. Or, perhaps a more apt analogy, Facebook is like a taxi driver at an airport, who takes the newly arrived tourist on the longest possible route to his destination, pointing out all the scenic attractions, which happen to be not hills and lakes and forests, but billboards, hoardings and tourist trap shops. So what happens with a mailing list? A message appears in my inbox. If I don’t have time to read it now, as soon as I close my inbox, my mail reader program (which computer nerds like to call a “client”, would that I could bill it!) sorts it into a folder with all other saved messages from that mailing list. I can go back to it in an hour’s time and read and reply to it. Of I can go tomorrow, or next week or next month or next year. If someone asks a question on a mailing list, and I find the answer in three months time, I can go back and give them the answer. Try doing that on Facebook and you’ll spend the next three months looking for it, wasting bandwidth and of course increasing their ad revenue. It usually takes about 30 seconds to find the message on my computer and it uses no Internet bandwidth. So no, Facebook Groups are no substitute for mailing lists. They were designed to serve a different purpose, and they are good for that. Use the right tool for the job. You can open tin of peaches with a scewdriver and a rock if you don’t have a tin opener, but if a tin opener is available, why not use it? A few years ago there was a newsgroup called rec.arts.books (a newsgroup is a little like a mailing list, but not quite — it works on linked news servers rather than a single mailing list server). It had interesting book discussions and reviews. Then someone had a bright idea — let’s move it to a Facebook Group where we can post pretty pictures. So they did, and about half of them moved to the Facebook Group, which they called, appropriately enough, _The Prancing Half-Wits_. It died, mainly for the reasons described above. Only about 20% of the people would see each post, specially chosen by Facebook’s algorithms, and even fewer saw the comments. And rec.arts.books limps along, because most of the creative and interesting people left for Facebook. Posted in communications,
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YAHOO! TO CLOSE MAILING LISTS? I just saw this announcement today which, if true, will mean that thousands of mailing lists will be cut off with very little notice.There are lists that deal with various academic subjects and have been used for research. Some universities run listservers of their own and may be able to take some over, but that is almost impossible at such short notice. There are others, like genealogy groups, which have a lot of family history information that was searchable on the Web, but that too willbe gone.
Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content:
> Yahoo (owned by Engadget’s parent company Verizon) is phasing out > one its longest-standing features. The internet pioneer is closing > the Yahoo Groups website in a two-phase process that will > effectively see it disappear. You’ll lose the ability to post new > content on October 21st, and Yahoo will delete all “previously > posted” material on December 14th. Users can still connect to > their groups through email, but the site will effectively be vacant. > All groups will be made private and require an administrator’s> approval.
>
> If you’re at all interested in preserving your history on the > site, you’ll want to download your data either directly from posts > or through Yahoo’s Privacy Dashboard. It should be borne in mind that Yahoo! got into the mailing list business when it took over something called E-Groups, which ran publicmail servers.
If they were concerned about their customers they would give them enough notice and time to possibly arrange for alternative mail servers. As Yahoo! took over E-groups, so other servers could possibly take over some of the lists hosted by Yahoo!. But if they leave an impossibly short time, that will not work. If they close it down with such short notice I will certainly be removing my Yahoo! Id, and will have nothing more to do with any of their services in future.Actually Yahoo! has hardly any services left. The mailing lists were one of the last. Yahoo! developed a reputation for taking over flourishing web services, and wrecking and killing them off. The list is a long one — Geocities, Webring, MyBlogLog, and E-groups.. And now it seems that Yahoo! itself has been taken over by another company, which isshutting them down.
A few years ago there was a group that tried to set up an alternative when some bright spark arrived and tried to change the way YahooGroups worked and almost wrecked it. I think it was called groups.io — you can find more about it here.
If you know of any others, please tell about them in the comments.I
suggest that while you still have the opportunity you will not the e-mail addresses and other contact information of people on mailing lists that you would like to stay in touch with while you still havethe chance.
I’ve been involved with about 50 mailing lists that deal with a great variety of topics, including:* Missiology
* New Religious Movements * Books and Literature * Genealogy and family history groups (including several dealing with Single family name) I suppose we can put it down to entropy on the Internet — if there is anything useful there, it will die. Posted in communications,
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SINGULARITY
Singularity
by Steven
James
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Three years ago I heard Izak Potgieter speak at TGIF about TheSingularity
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According to him, The Singularity is a milestone in the foreseeable future where technology, or non-biological intelligenc- e, will reach the ability of its human creators, themselves largely non-biological by that point, and then transcend it at a rate that “will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed”. I had previously heard of singularities as some kind of mathematical thing relating to the topological characteristics of Mobius strips, but Izak assured us that this was not just any old singularity, but THE Singularity. And he described himself as a Singularitarian,. So when we went to TGIF last week, and I saw a book with the title Singularity, I was moved by curiosity to buy it.What is it about?
A mysterious death, mysterious semi-government research institutes where some dodgy research is going on, hints of connections with organised crime and bent cops — mix those ingredients and you can be sure that the protagonist and those he loves will be getting deeper into danger as the story progresses. The protagonist is Jevin Banks, a stage musician who performs in Las Vegas, and his associates Charlene Antioch and Xavier Wray. Xavier Wray, like Izak Potgieter, is a Singularitarian. The “singularity” of the title concerns the development of Artificial Intelligence and the point at which it overtakes human intelligence, and the book raises several questions about that. But these questions are not new, and I recall reading books published morethan 50 years ago
on the same topic. And some of the elements were also found in speculative fiction, in novels like The Müller-Fokker Effect,
which spoke of capturing someone’s consciousness and storing it asdigital data.
And over the years I’ve often used that as an analogy for the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body — that when we die God has us all backed up on tape somewhere, and when the last day comes he’ll restore it in new and improved hardware and reboot us.View all my reviews
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01 Oct 2019
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FRIENDSHIP AND KINSHIP IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Last Sunday was our 45th wedding anniversary. It’s not a major anniversary like the 25th or 50th. but it seemed worth remembering, and remembering some of the people we have known, both before we were married and in our 45 years together. We didn’t have a big celebration — a cheap cake from the supermarket at teatime sufficed. And we did a few things on social media. * I posted a link to a description of our wedding on our familyhistory blog
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It was posted on Facebook and Twitter. * Val scanned some photos of our wedding and posted them onFacebook.
The response to the photo album on Facebook was: > Likes etc from Jethro Hayes, Jenny Aitchison and 46 others> 36 comments
> 2 shares
The response on Facebook to the link to the blog post was: > Likes from Jethro Hayes, Jenny Aitchison and 72 others> 27 comments
> 4 shares
And the response to the blog post itself was:I
also posted “then and now” photos in a photo album on Facebook, but one cannot tell much from responses to those because most people responded to the album itself rather than those particular pictures. But it was interesting to see who responded and who didn’t, and to think of what it might have been like without social media. Responses on the blog link on Facebook: * 9 from people we have seen face to face within the last 3 years * 18 from people we have never met, but have only interacted with online
* 5 from close family (2nd cousin or closer) * 9 from extended family (more distant than 2nd cousin) What conclusions can one draw from this? * absence makes the heart grow fonder * familiarity breeds contempt The more you see people and the closer you get to them, the less theylike you.
Of course this has to be balanced against how many people the social media platforms’ algorithms actually showed them to. I have 926 followers on Twitter, of whom 2 responded. I have 591 “friends” on Facebook, with responses as indicated above, and I suppose 315 views of the blog post isn’t a bad response. What it seems to show is what most of us already knew — social media, and the Internet generally enable us to keep in touch with friends, family and acquaintances whom we haven’t seen for a long time and who live far away. Quite a lot of the people who responded were actually at our wedding, though we haven’t seen several of them for 40 years or more. Social media have enabled us to reestablish and maintain contact with them. Facebook seems to do it a lot better than Twitter. In fact Twitter seems to be pretty useless as a social medium. In spite of having nearly twice as many Twitter followers as Facebook friends, the response from Twitter was minimal. But it also leaves a niggling thought — what about the closer family and the people we’ve seen recently who _didn’t_ respond? Is their lack of response due to social media algorithms or because they are offended with us in some way? So social media can bring people can bring people closer together, but can also sow suspicion and mistrust. Steve & Val Hayes, 29 September 1974, Durban North Here, for what it’s worth, are the “then” and “now” photos. The first was on our wedding day 45 years ago, wearing the wedding garments that Val made (they no longer fit). Other observations … Val’s hair was wavy then, perhaps because we were living at the coast, and humidity makes for wavy hair. We’ve been living inland for more than 35 years, and that seems to make forstraighter hair. .
Steve & Val Hayes, 29 September 2019, Kilner Park, Tshwane Now, of course, our hair is also grey. And the cap is in honour of our Subaru station wagon, the best car Iever owned.
And so we carry on, much along the lines of the theme songof the BBC’s New
Tricks TV programme: > It’s all right, it’s OK > Doesn’t really matter if you’re old and grey. > It’s all right, it’s OK > Listen to what I say. > It’s all right, doing fine. > Doesn’t really matter if the sun don’t shine. > It’s all right, it’s OK. > Getting to the end of the day.Posted in culture
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21 Sep 2019
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BAFFLED BY BREXIT
For the last three years a lot of my Brit friends have have been debating the issue of the UK leaving the EU. It’s something that keeps cropping up on social media and in blogs but the more the issue is debated, the more opaque it seems to become to outsiders like me. As far as I’m aware it’s been going on for nearly 60 years. I first became aware of it when the Brits applied to join and General de Gaulle gave a resounding _NON!_ Flanders and Swann made it memorable by writing a song about it : “Eyetie, Benelux, Germany and me, that’s my market recipe.” Eventually the Brits did manage to get in (over de Gaulle’s dead body) and now they want out. But it seems that having decided that they want to go, they want the assurance that they can have their cake and eat it. I don’t have a dog in this particular fight. It’s no skin off my nose whether they stay or leave. But SIXTY YEARS! One blogging friend whose blog I’ve been following for years has just written an article about it in the Church Times, Are the Bishops really listening to Leavers?:
> The bishops write: “The levels of fear, uncertainty and > marginalisation in society, much of which lies behind the vote for > Brexit, but will not be addressed by Brexit . . .” One way in > which power is experienced as abusive is when those with power (such > as a bishop) say to those without power (a normal voter) that the > voter does not know what he or she really wants. To say that there > is something that “lies behind the vote for Brexit” is to > disparage the desire for Brexit in and of itself, and thus is an > exercise in disempowerment.>
> Leavers have become accustomed to being slighted in this way, to > having their understanding and integrity impugned, to being told > that we voted for Brexit only because of X, and, if those in power > solved X, well, we don’t need Brexit any more, do we? This is not > the product of genuine listening: it is the imputation of false > consciousness and a rather un-Anglican attempt to “make windows > into men’s souls”. It is essential that, if there is to be a > reconciliation between the different sides on Brexit, such language> is abandoned.
But I suspect you have to have been following the issue closely for the last 60 years to know what he’s on about.It
seems to me, looking from a distance, that the result of the 2016referendum
was pretty close, and they really should have looked for a 2/3 majority before deciding to change. They should also have specified that there should be at least a 55/45% majority in favour of “leave” in each of the four countries of the UK. As it is, England and Wales wanted to leave, Scotland and Northern Ireland wanted to remain in the EU. But the fact is that the UK government did decide to leave and set the whole leaving process going. One of the difficulties this creates is a land border between the EU and the UK in Northern Ireland. Why this creates a special difficulty is rather puzzling, since there are other land borders between the EU and non-EU countries, 23 of them actually. Why not do whatever they do there, since it is simply a matter of adding a 24thland border?
So my question is, why doesn’t the UK opt for one of the following: * England and Wales leave the EU and the UK simultaneously, while the rump UK (Scotland and Northern Ireland) remains in the EU. * The UK leaves the EU and Scotland and Northern Ireland leave the UK and go their separate ways, applying to rejoin the EU if they wish. * Have another referendum stipulating a clear majority (at least 55%-45%) in each country. Can any of my UK friends explain why the present indecision is better than any of those, or which of those might be better than the presentshilly-shalying?
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STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDStranger
in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 2 of 5 stars I bought this book and had read about two-thirds of this original uncut version when I left it on a bus. I thought of buying another copy to see what happened in the end, but I didn’t think it was all that good, so I left it. Then when I saw a copy in the library I thought it was my chance to find out what happened, so I took it out and re-read it from the beginning because after 27 years I’d forgotten too much to just pick it up where I left off. And having reached the end, my verdict is unchanged. It’s not really worth paying good money for.The first half is OK, and I’d give it 3 stars on the GoodReads Scale. The second half is excruciatingly boring and preachy, and would get 1 star from me, so 2 stars for the whole thing. The story concerns the first manned expedition to Mars, which disappears without trace. The second expedition finds there was a survivor — a child of two of the crew members who was born on Mars and named Michael Alexander Smith, and was brought up by Martians after his parents died. The second expedition brought him, now a young adult, back to earth, where he suffers from culture shock, and is perceived as a threat by vested interests on earth, and so is kept incommunicado by the government. The book was at least partly responsible for starting a New Religious Movement (NRM), the Church of All Worlds, and perhaps the best comment on that comes from Drawing Down the Moonby Diane Adler
:
> The Church of All Worlds has been called everything from ‘a > sub-culture science-fiction Grok-flock’ to ‘a bunch of crazy > hippie freaks.’ But the real origins of CAW lead back to a small > group of friends who, along with untold numbers of middle-class high > school and college students in the late 1950s and early 1960s, > became infatuated with the romantic, heroic, compelling right-wing > ideas of Ayn Rand > . It is a sign > of the peculiarity of North American consciousness that thousands of > young students, at one time or another, have become possessed by her > novels – Atlas shrugged> , The
> Fountainhead
> , and
> Anthem . Jerome> Tucille
> , in
> his witty, tongue-in-cheek tour of the libertarian right, It usually > begins with Ayn Rand> ,
> could not have been more precise in his choice of title. He noted > that Rand’s works were particularly appealing ‘to those in the > process of escaping a regimented religious background.’ Despite > the author’s rigid philosophy of Objectivism, she stirred a > libertarian impulse, and _Atlas shrugged_ became a ‘New Marxism of> the Right’.
And the second half of Stranger in a Strange Land is like nothing so much as John Galt’s speech from Atlas Shrugged, only about
three times as long. It was written in the late 1950s, and is stamped with American culture of that period, including their vision of the future. This included future technology — flying cars, yes, but no personal computers, no cell phones, no digital photography. It is also full of the male chauvinist piggery of the period, though some of the language seems strange for a novel set in the USA — lots of “chaps” and “blokes” around. I didn’t know there were so many of those in the US, either back in the 1950s or now.View all my reviews
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NOVEL WRITING AND GENEALOGY What do novel writing and genealogy have in common? One could think of several links, but now I’m thinking of using genealogy software to keep track of the characters in the novel youare writing.
For about 40 years now genealogists have been using computer software to keep track of their family history. Genealogy is quite a popular pastime, and computers are a good way of keeping track of your relatives, and there are lots of programs available for doing so. But the same software can also be used for keeping track of the characters in a novel. The software allows you to enter basic details of a person — dates of birth, marriage and death. Names of parents, and also siblings children and cousins. It also allows you to enter information about a character: height, weight, colour and texture of skin, hair, eye colour and so on. This is particularly useful if you write several novels involving the same character. Crime novels, for example, often feature detectives whose careers span 30 years or more. It’s embarrassing if you have them talking to a spouse when they were divorced three years earlier, or if their child who was a pop idol three years ago is still at school in the current novel. You mention that your character learnt a certain skill in the British army during the Falklands War, but after a publication a reader points out that the character was only 10 years old at the time. Your characters may be fictional, but the chronology needs to be consistent, even if your plot involves time travel. And it’s not only writing. I’ve even used family history software to keep track of the characters in books I’ve been _reading_. One such book was The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch, where the characters’ relationships were difficult to keep[ track of. So what is this genealogy software and where do you get it? There are at least two genealogy programs for Windows that offer free versions. They are RootsMagic and Legacy Family Tree . Yes, just click on the links and download and install the program. It’s that simple. For keeping track of characters in a novel I prefer RootsMagic, as it loads in about half the time of Legacy Family Tree. Once you’ve tried them, you might also want to use these programs to keep track of your own family tree, but that’s beyond the scope of this article. If you want to know what other programs are available, see here.
Once you’ve downloaded and installed your chosen program, open the program and begin by entering details of your protagonist. Name, nicknames, date of birth, place of birth, spouses and children if any. Parents too. Even if the parents don’t feature in your novel now, they might crop up in another volume. Aunts and uncles too — your character might inherit something from them. Enter events in the life of your protagonist. In RootsMagic this is “Add a fact”. Schools they attended, jobs they held — how much detail is up to you. Most fields allow you to enter notes. In the main person name field, you can include in a note a physical description and a potted biography in as much or as little detail as you like. In notes for the Facts/Events fields you can include, for schools attended, for example, best friend, favourite teacher, worst enemy (who may appear as the principal villain in volume 3 of your trilogy), sporting achievements and so on. Then, when you are writing, you can print an “Individual Summary” for each character in your current chapter, so you’ve got the facts about them at your fingertips. When you are revising your first draft, you can use the same “Individual Summary” sheets for checkingconsistency.
Do be careful what you do and don’t tell the reader. In the first volume of the Harry Potter stories, the reader doesn’t need to know that Ron Weasley will become Harry Potter’s brother-in-law, but the author needs to keep track of such things. On the other hand, do remember that if you’ve recorded such a relationship in a genealogy program, the reader doesn’t know that until you explicitly tellthem.
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