Two more questions that I would love to hear perspectives about (either or both):
1- what do you see as the biggest ways the #Internet potentially contributes to #ClimateChange ?
2- what do you see as the ways the Internet can help address #climate issues or find solutions?
For me I think for 1 it’s the general need for electricity, and specifically power(and water)-hungry data centers. For 2 it’s remote working, and the sharing of ideas, research, sensors.
Conservatives denied climate change theories and attacked scientists who supported them in the 90s, too. I’d say it was an organized scheme backed by petroleum companies.
My impression is a shift happened before that, too. Social media didn’t really get big until the second half of the 2000s, but in the mid 90s, there were changes that made US politics more confrontational: Newt Gingrich and his ilk decided that Republicans should act eternally belligerent towards Democrats, and purveyors of anger and manipulation such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox got a foothold in media. As far as what average people think, it’s hard to tell other than whatever letters to the editor or underground publications existed since the average person didn’t have the chance ti nationally broadcast their opinions in the way they can now.
I do recall a friend who after high school went way out on a conservative bent (she told me in 1996 that I should really listen to rush Limbaugh, “he’s so right!”) recommending junkscience .com and citing that as a reason why climate change was a “hoax”. Some people in the senate were saying the same for years before that.
What was the first movie/TV show that legitimately scared you?
What scared you about it?
How do you do feel about it now?
My experience:
When I was 7, after my parents put me to bed, my parents put on the movie Alien. I snuck out of bed and hid behind the couch, and watched the whole thing, and they never realized I was there. I was completely terrified, but I knew if I told my parents why I would get in big trouble, so after I was sure they fell asleep I took my pillow and blanket and snuck into their room, and slept on the floor, then got up really early before they woke up, and got back into my own bed. I was scared of Aliens for years and most of my childhood nightmares revolved around them. Now I think Alien is a pretty great movie, and Ripley is bad ass, but honestly I'm still terrified of being a lone survivor.
I'd say Dr. Who, like the really old ones. It was on late at night, and sometimes there would be these scenes (from what I recall) which were just the camera looking at one empty area in B&W with eerie music playing. I had no idea what this meant and it seemed spooky.
The end of #Twitter - at least as a brand — appear imminent if tonight’s postings by the platform’s owner are serious. He has just announced: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”