##Anti-TV pieces from the Zine. The columns are set at 41 because that is what fits on a half sheet of paper turned side-ways. =>gemini://gemlog.blue/users/NetCandide/1634416762.gmi on the Zine The pieces are short and weird. One is on YouTube, the other an important Quiz. Let's talk about da Tube ======================== 1) It's a feed. I once saw an ad (naturally) for an education product that implied it would be good if (and further implying their services would achieve) students feeding their minds instead of minding feeds. Cute. Also, the thing about being hooked up to a feed is that it makes you suck. 2) It's an anti-social media. The whole racket of the digital behavioralist is to engage fight-or-flight responses. They are always trying to piss you off or scare you. The only way out is to have never engaged in politics -- and blessed are those who haven't. 3) Otherwise, it works to make you narrow If da Tube can't drag you into indignation, then it follows the logic of Amazon -- oh, you were looking for a toilet once? You must want nothing but toilets for all of eternity. Open-Universe Quiz ================== (Use your resources!) "When you trust your ___(1)___ What you get is what you got, 'Cause when they own the information, oh, they can ___(2)_____ ." From a song by (3) (1) A.) television B.) loved ones C.) inner Voice D.) all of the above (2) A.) take you to the Mont B.) deal with a blot clot C.) bend it how they want D.) none of the above (3) I) John Mayer II) the universe experiencing itself, subjectively. A.) just I B.) just II C.) I and II D.) none of the above == I'd love to hear from people. My email is the handle minus "net" (so, a work by Voltaire that starts with "c"), at sdf.org. While we're adding boiler plate: this work is in the public domain. Do what you want with it.