Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-19 Thread Gillian Densmore
No. I agree. The way the do their videos is...yeah Max Hedroom 20 minutes into future. CyberPunk meets MadMax. In a documentary about them they use a computer to read a script so as to protect the crew. I totally respect that. Part of that is because how they work is murky legal water. The other

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
st 18, 2017 6:57:45 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump Well said (as usual). >Pedestrian black humor is very irritating. But when it's done right, it carries just the right balance of poignancy and >banality. In contrast, tag clou

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - Thus, it is not a necessarily a good sign when someone that has to make people cooperate takes a direct approach. It may just show that they lack the memory and patience to turn over all the necessary rocks and think about how they relate before taking action. Thus: *"< *Give him

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Well said (as usual). >Pedestrian black humor is very irritating. But when it's done right, it carries just the right balance of poignancy and >banality. In contrast, tag clouds are antiseptic and devoid of any humanity. There is no "there" there. There is only posturing and marketing. So,

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread gⅼеɳ
On 08/18/2017 01:24 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: >> https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ > 15 minutes with this make me painfully aware of how much I'm not in tune with > twitter culture... the tool seems pretty well made, but I found myself having > a hard time drawing

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
Steve writes: < Give him credit or not, he's been willing to take on lots of groups/subcultures fairly head-on (and many more smarmily obliquely... like the LGBT/Latino/Black/??? communities) > Speaking as person who deals with things head-on more than it ever benefits me, I would say that my

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Gil - Thanks for the reference to Anonymous@YouTube. You can tell I'm an old fogey by my irritable reaction to the style of their videos. I felt like it was created by/for Max Headroom! I HAVE watched one or two before (over a year ago?) with the same reaction. I have a natural

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - While I like the idea of his continued self-sabotage, his pronouncements probably keep a part of the base stoked. I do understand that and agree that this channel is a significantly powerful/focused one for his fringe/base. If his accounts were to go away, those folks might not

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - This is interesting if you type in "trump": https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ 15 minutes with this make me painfully aware of how much I'm not in tune with twitter culture... the tool seems pretty well made, but I found myself having a hard time drawing

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Gillian Densmore
Anonymous has been posting videos on youtube sugesting people put aside the petty bickering. Making sugestion what things people can do to empower themselves. Their current call to arms is about (weirdly) love and joy and getting rid of washinton as it currently is and try for something like a

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread Marcus Daniels
“While I feel very nervous about Twitter shutting down theDonald's personal account so cavalierly, I can imagine how devastating it would be to his ego to not be able to blurt out his nonsense at all times of the day or night without benefit of counsel by his (admittedly highly flawed) inner

Re: [FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

2017-08-18 Thread gⅼеɳ
This is interesting if you type in "trump": https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/ Here are some other tools: https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-twitter-tools It irritates me to no end when we call password guessing or phishing "hacking". The concept of hacking is rich and