For my money, the most impactful scene in The Great Gatsby is in the denouement where she says โtruly, he was a great gatsbyโ & whatโs-his-name retorts: no, Daisy, he was THE great gatsby.โ
I've just come across the Old English compound word "hord-wynn" (hoard-joy), which refers to treasure that delights.
That's how I'm going to be thinking of my library from now on ๐ฅฐ ๐ #Life#Books#Words#Etymology
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs or wants do you have that would be unmet?
@J12t It's a good question, and well worth asking ourselves. I feel like I addressed some of this last year on the podcast, when we looked at various social media as "meta-topical spaces", as part of the public sphere.
The community answer is a good one too.
But I think it's best answered by seeing how TikTok works, as it really aced the "media" part of social media, above all others.
Social Media is both the content and the community. It's watching a movie together and chatting about it.
@ekknappenberger
"Alright, we got one! Looks like he's a Dresser-Upper!
That's enough for probable cause;
Check his phone, what's he got?"
"looks like we got a lot, Chief: an -ology, an -ory, and a -sophy"
"I knew it: the Woke Trifecta! Take him away!"
[I'm sure she's a good singer/songwriter --though greedy about ticket prices, and she has a polluting private jet, and a wearer of kitschy stage stuff--but damn, do people have to have academic conferences about her]
After this year, weโre all majoring in Taylor Swift
An academic conference about Taylor Swift proves that the pop star is occupying our minds like never before
@johnshirley2024 I felt similarly perhaps 15-20 years ago when a college offered a semester length course on the topic of Lady Gaga, and I was aghast, but then I kinda got out of it.
Taylor Swift is no different in this regard, though I think the Swifties are more of a force than the Monster ever were.
But that's the thing: the fact that both of them have a fanbase large enough to be a) identified by name and b) make an impact beyond the pop music sphere warrants the study.
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@stefan If I'm being at my most charitable, I could see an argument being made for "wait until conditions are met". However, the tiny islands of the #Fediverse Archipelago are not the #EU, in terms of size, scope, or clout, and have nowhere near the ability to enforce terms.
The time to put on your seatbelt is not after the carcrash either.