Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will • Hacker News Board

Re: Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

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Post by wan23 » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 10:41 PM UTC

vram22 wrote: post #514

ozmbie wrote: post #343

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I find the watch helps, because you distil your digital interactions down to a small number of important ones. Then go about your life without the constant pull of your phone nearby. The new Series 3 LTE watch has enough battery to get me through the day. The only notifications I have enabled are messages, phone calls, and reminders. I leave my phone at home but I'm still available for the important things.

>The only notifications I have enabled are messages, phone calls, and reminders. >I leave my phone at home but I'm still available for the important things. How do you reply to phone calls then? Via a public phone? Or do you not reply? (I don't know about the capabilities of that watch, and whether you can call back on it.)

The Apple Watch can make and receive calls, though you might not want to talk to your wrist for an extended conversation as it can be kind of uncomfortable.

Re: Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

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Post by timtas » Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 10:17 PM UTC

Ah for the days of 100 million Americans passively accepting Cronkite’s “the way it is” — night after night trusting him to distill the “grand consensus” of the ruling class into a common mythology, a great uniting groupthink. What a comfort it was!

Re: Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

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Post by timtas » Fri, Dec 01, 2017, 10:23 PM UTC

jmcgough wrote: post #302

xster wrote: post #293

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Corporate media like NYT and WashPo etc that writes things like you must be crazy to not believe there are WMDs in Iraq are not serious news sites. Rich != serious. And hegemonic news smearing all sources of independent journalism and grassroot progressive political movements is just about the opposite of the point of this article.

Like them or not, the NYT and WashPo do some of the best, factual investigative journalism in the world. Have they been wrong? Sure. But they have extremely high standards for publishing a story, so you can generally assume that they're accurate. They also are the ones who break a lot of the biggest, most impactful stories. I think a better criticism of them would be wash po turning a blind eye to Bezos and others th…

WaPo and NYT can be counted on to amplify every rush to war and every expansion of the suveylance state. This is where the assumption of accuracy turn insidious.