I am thinking about these things for my own project.

Interesting way to describe modernity and progress.

Yes, repair and maintenance for our objects. I don't know why Franny Choi and the poem about the waking up the scroll and plug back into the internet comes to mind here, but the idea of these medias taunting us and reminding us of who we were, are, and where we might be going is nicely put by Jackson here.

When I think of bridges I think of was to transport, move, or mobilize something from one area to an area. I began to wonder, this metaphor for bridges -- what does this actually entail in terms of repair (when bridges, too, need repairs/maintenance)? What materials would bridge these methods, ideas, insights, or modes? What does these bridges literally look like outside of language and more in the invisible space that Jackson discusses?

Back in the early 2010s, there were many documentaries on Water Wars and Blue Gold, and how companies/governments were trying to buy up as much water supply as they could. Companies profit off of clean water from third world countries that should otherwise be used for their own people. An example of government would be the state coming in and trying to claim the natural spring on my Uncle's property. All the critters (Uncle is from Georgia) come and drink from it, and by giving to municipality would surely change the landscape for the wildlife and greenery that depend on it.

So, after I got to this point into the article , I began to question what coal fired plants looked like (although remembering learning about them via the Industrial Revolution). I went down a rabbit hole pretty quickly into other sustainable ways for coal creating energy and whether or not New Jersey had coal fired plants.

The answer is yes, and the last one was decommissioned in May 2019 at Marmora. There are not many due to the oil refineries we have. Our state government is now using Waste to Energy plants that take our local waste and burn it in large incinerators in hopes of reducing CH4 (methane gas) in landfills. It also reduces open burning that used to be more common place (depending on EPA regulation). WTE has a preferred list of solid waste to burn as well as reducing 30% of green house emissions -- in attempts of promising reduced, reused, and renewable energy for the rest of us. I just wonder how good this will be in the long run despite the many filters, protocols, and regulations put in place especially as the cloud/internet grows larger and demands more electricity and that in some places -- the internet is powered by trash.

It is an interesting sort of balancing. You use this much energy, so plant these many trees to offset the C02.

I lol'ed at this: Why aren't they planting MORE than what they are emitting into the atmosphere, and trying to reduce carbon footprint as much as possible? Literally doing nothing to improve the environment -- if anything, it keeps it the same.

It's bit of an eye opener when you realize that when companies say they are about to bring paying jobs to your area, especially in areas that are in need of good sustainable incomes, that they still bring in their own people and hire no one. Won't even stimulate/touch the local economy.

I wonder what the Google cloud looks like now, especially after reading "The Art of Waste" by Miller. In 2011, their carbon footprint was 1.5 tonnes annually due to running searches through their cloud.

I am thinking in terms of my project here, but it would be interesting to look at humans as a type of technology (not just a machine but a type of machine). I am playing with this idea about what our machines say about us as a technology and as a dead media, and whether the dead media possesses any of the elements you would see in Haunted Media.

And then -- what constitutes as "live" media or "undead" media?

Playing with this idea with my project. Glad I have some language here to explain it. (:

Very interesting.

This reminds me of how scientists are constantly trying to classify and dissect the material world in order to order the chaos. It will be interesting to see how we will order dematerialized or rematerailized items/creations since we perceive the immaterial world as zero matter. How will we go forth discussing the virtual world after the COVID19 ?

Does the material method touch on postmaterialism?

More questions for research and analysis.

I am interested in how applying taxonomy of understanding something also makes it harder for that to be understood. Does categorizing the electronic as just an electronic limit the understanding as a subject (because in some causes, our electronics can work as both subject and object)?

Wasting time is quite subjective.

I suppose this is similar to the tagging we now do on Twitter, Wordpress, and Instagram so objects can be searchable.

It is interesting that the Internet moved away from a military operative to what is has become. Brunton's explanation about dial-up and file sharing now makes sense (I think I was in middle school when the AOL craze happened).

I appreciate all of the Lord of the Ring references, in this introduction.

I don't know if this an illusion to the War of the Worlds or just H.G.Wells in general; however, it does show how we cannot foresee what will come until it arrives.

I guess the real question is should governments use policy to police companies into over-censoring themselves from the public at risk of violating/high fines? Would we want corporations hide what their doing in fear of these fines? What is termed..."transparent" in this instance?

I can't remember if Marco Rubio was cited as being "in the family". There is an interesting docuseries called "The Family" about politics and religion in Washington. I don't know how credible it is; however, it's an added lens to see our government in.

AOL/Time Warner merger in 2000. Also permits monopolies. Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, Clayton Antitrust of 1914 to consider: (https://cei.org/content/the-case-against-antitrust-law)

My grandather talked about this and how these ideals shifted tremendously, especially by the 80s (grandfather was a WWII vet, participated in CCC/New Deal, and union worker with HVAC/Sheet Metal Industry).

This reminds me of Netflix's House of Cards (dramatized originally on BBC). Career politicians allow for party elites. One way to look at how the party elite represents a constituency is if they vote in favor of what their constituents want or what lobbyists/influencers propose to win votes(or favors) in future elections.

Interesting to think about with Net Neutrality and Copyright laws/violations. These's even argument that we aren't a a true democracy and maybe with that in mind, the internet was always more representative in it's structure than freeing/liberating.

Fascinating.

We have laws against hate speech, but we also learned at the beginning of our class that governmental law cannot always step in to take down inflammatory content. Do they also have "checkers" on GoDaddy and Google that look for this or is it still the responsibility of the user to report it to domains?

That's assuming that large privately owned news networks will follow these set practices. That was one thing the research didn't go further into were the large business organizations who own CBS, NBC, CNN, and FoxNews as well as Washington Post and NYT. Privately own businesses (like network platforms) do not have to adhere to these set practices if they reframe them. They can claim that they do but doesn't necessarily mean that they actually believe or follow them, especially in terms of TV ratings, readership, and marketing for the scoop. We have to believe that they buy into the social contract of 1st Amendment Constitutional Rights, which means these media networks can still provide their opinions along with the facts and, therefore, information isn't truly "detached" or "objective".

This is something not just found in PUA but is inundated in our movies, television, and music. It is something ingrained into society and these texts provide how misogyny persists and is carried throughout time, not just in the Red Pill Society. Reddit just creates a space for it to be voiced. When religions and culture dictate that women need to play a "game" to avoid rape or abuse, it becomes more than an online forum and something more ingrained into "female" conditioning.

These stories about Phaedra were written by white Greek/Roman men. Could it be that the story was created to incite fear and to teach a lesson to Greek/Roman women?Those who wanted to seek retribution?

Cherry-picking to support one's argument.

This is an important concept in psychology -- recognizing what is within one's control versus what is not.

Interesting how knowing information was tiered with inferiority. If you were not land and property-owning white gentry, then you were not guaranteed to knowledge (which in this case, created its own type of elitist echo chamber).

I remember this term being thrown around post undergrad days. Groups of men/boys' clubs getting together doing "manly" things -- ax throwing, smoking cigars, camping, growing out their facial hair.

I believe this is came out around the same time the "13 Reasons Why" book become quite popular in our middle school where I taught. I don't know if the format of the story (in the book -- outdated cassette tapes) as a way to control the story and who was involved as well as responding to outing with outing. And in this case, passing around a story like a private retweet that everyone else who has the cassette tapes has also participated in. To spin on this would be to think about how the series on Netflix changed the story and the format and its delivery about private/public selves.

Isn't this child porn?

So, does this mean, by the definition of the crime, that each of these students took turns raping these characters? Also -- unknown multiple users in the vise of a singular character playing among other unknown multi-user platform. I don't know if it's meta or if it's irony, but I feel there is something to be said here about multiple users playing behind a single user name.

I had to have my husband explain this to me, and it's interesting that these were set-up like online DNDs.

I like how Parikka and Sampson connect spam, porn, and digital viruses to a sort of New Weird Fiction, a digital narrative that is meant to displace the user with the uncanny: how the internet behaves versus how should behave. Mieville defines Weird Fiction as "usually, roughly, conceived of as a rather breathless and generically slippery macabre fiction, a dark fantastic ('horror' plus 'fantasy') often featuring nontraditional alien monsters (thus plus 'science fiction')". With this parallel, it is easy to see how the Internet makes the Weird possible -- a slippery place for horror and fantasy to commiserate in zombiebots,data contagions, and tentacle porn.

I like how spam works outside the maxims of logic the same way that the supernatural works outside the maxims of physical reality. In this way, these objects become subjects that are inserted into the code to disrupt and create space the way that worms eat the material world and leave holes behind. They are there, lying in wait. This space allows for it to expose the limitations in the code, and like most digital RNA, use the code to evolve and change the infrastructure from the inside out.

It also reminds me of Harlan Ellis' " "Repent Harlequin", Said the Ticktockman".

This brought me back to my Angelfire and Geocities pages and experimenting with html tags. It also brought me back to Y2K and tech anxiety, and the fears surrounding this "frictionless" electronic agora --- especially in AOL and AIM chatrooms in spite of the rise in Live (and Dead) Journals. As someone who grew with these early free platforms it's interesting how we have evolved since Web 2.0 and the "virtual realities" that were promised are not at all as they were prophesied to be. I think there is even a Daria episode that discusses the monetization of personal identity and how it intersects the public world with private realities.

Especially in terms of the internet's infrastructure and what it means for biases in code as well as what Blackness would have/could have changed the digital landscape if originally considered. It just shifts the narrative to how people of color operate in online spaces and have agency despite the cultural and social limitations in an already restricting environment.

I believe many users on Twitch (e.g. paymoneywubby) complain about the process often since its quite inconsistent and "unfair". People's content that has been flagged varies across the platform depending on what office worker reads it that day. Jeong speaks to bright-lining rules (creating universally accepted ethos) earlier on to manage this better.

This reminds me of the Zombie Manifesto. Not only are the spam bots mindless, but even the humans making the comments are (e.g. trolls). This can be seen in Freud's "Group Psychology and the Analysis of Ego" when he discusses mob mentality.

It will be interesting when spam wars begin including learning machines with agency (like sentient learning machines) and AI will be considered spam (AI filtering other AI based on biased coding and programming).

I teach high schoolers, and I really found this interesting in regard to First Amendment Rights. Do students/parents/educators really know what they are signing up for certain education companies (Membean, Google Classroom, and ClassDojo)? In addition, school districts paying into proprietary software for classroom technology? Do children/parents really know what their rights are on social media platforms.I think Facebook (or other platforms) defining it's own definition of "hate speech" has me questioning what others things they define in contrast to law.