The Crow's Eye: If You Have Any Doubt About The Wrongness

"...it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red

"In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech." ~ davidly, on how wars get done

"...What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. The gods are not arrayed on either side. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. where his ire might do some good--I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse; it is hardly even a fight. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZ

Apr 23, 2010

If You Have Any Doubt About The Wrongness

...that Facebook represents:

8 comments:

JM said...: I..I have a facebook.. I go to it ocasionally,but it's nice for family and long distance friend commmunication..heh..heh?; April 23, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Jack Crow said...: I guess that's not the point of my criticism. My youngest brother is all over facebook, and I don't think there's anything wrong with him.

Well, other than being a perfect example of merit apathy (even if he really is an earnest, nice young man).

The problem, I think, is that it's a giant data mining operation - and its latest policy changes fit in nicely with all that corporate sponsorship behind the intrepid founder's ugly little head.; April 23, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Jack Crow said...: JM,

See:

http://pezcandy.blogspot.com/2010/04/amber-milgram-interviews-boy-genius.html; April 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM
JM said...: So he's to be hated because he's a rich havard boy? So is Conan Fucking O Brien. Unless you think it's some secret government front for the patriot act. Foxtrot's rather insane anyway: he's paranoid of anyone who doesn't think like him and is also a states rights type of guy. Whenever I try to disagree with him,he thinks I'm a CIA operative. No really.; April 23, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Jack Crow said...: JM,

Not that he's a Harvard boy. That he's pretending to be a social innovator, in order to cover a massive data mining operation.; April 23, 2010 at 3:30 PM
JM said...: So it is a cover for the Patriot Act?; April 23, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Justin said...: Jack: "It is a data mining operation."
JM: "So you are saying it's a patriot act front?"

A perfect example of taking someone's self-evident remark and distorting into a without evidence, conspiracy theory, in order to make it look ridiculous.

Look, FB is not even attempting to hide the data mining aggregation it is providing to marketers. This is a selling point for it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447104575117972284656374.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/business/media/31adco.html?ref=business&pagewanted=print

etc.; April 23, 2010 at 5:13 PM
JM said...: All right, point taken: that coke thing's a fucking stupid idea.; April 23, 2010 at 6:38 PM