Amidst the Trees

Secondly: If you are not doing the Linda Carter spin, then you’re doing it wrong.

James Somerton's social blade

I think there's a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that's all you've used your whole life, you may not know what a "folder" or a "file" is. If you don't know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I'd say it's all but impenetrable for our strawman.

in working with people on this project I'm finding that fear in general is a major generational culture difference. zoomers are terrified of everything. they have a good reason to be, don't get me wrong, but most of them have been taught no coping skills or resiliency whatsoever, they've just been raised to be scared of everything all the time without any lessons on how to do things that scare them and manage risk, and a lot of them only have avoidance as a coping tool.

they especially have not been taught to critically think about supposed threats or research the truth about rumors or stories they've heard, and "researching" anything on Google is now such a dicey proposition I'm not sure you can even really debunk things for yourself anymore unless you've already grown up without Web 3. this isn't their fault, their parents and teachers have done this intentionally, but it really makes me angry that so many young people are being needlessly made to suffer like this.

Having taught a lot of zoomers in undergraduate courses the past few years, honestly, a lot of them just... have not ever been taught how computers work.

I have more than once pulled up task manager on a student’s computer because they said it was slow and thought it was broken, and they thought I was doing some kind of wizardry. They had no idea what a CPU was, or what RAM was, or that the computer had physical limits based on internal components.

The worst case I’ve seen, the student had over 50 instances of Chrome open, over 600 tabs, two separate concurrently running instances of the native Netflix app running different shows that were paused in place, over 40 Word documents, and half a dozen Excel spreadsheets for different classes. Plus dozens of PDFs in Adobe, chat programs, and other things beside.

Their CPU was at 100%, their RAM was at 100%, and their computer temperatures were at “actually melting inside” levels. They thought these things were normal, because they had never been taught what they were.

None of this is their fault! But it is a problem.

Somewhere between my generation going through school in the 90s and 2000s and zoomers going through in the 2000s and 2010s, we just collectively stopped teaching people how shit works.

I think there's a certain technical knowledge gap between people whose first computer was a Windows XP machine and people whose first computer was an iPad. On a mobile device like that, even the filesystem is abstracted away from you, so if that's all you've used your whole life, you may not know what a "folder" or a "file" is. If you don't know what those are, how could you be expected to understand something like torrenting? Then add the layer of a VPN, which is basically a necessity when torrenting lest you get a love letter from your ISP, and I'd say it's all but impenetrable for our strawman.

in working with people on this project I'm finding that fear in general is a major generational culture difference. zoomers are terrified of everything. they have a good reason to be, don't get me wrong, but most of them have been taught no coping skills or resiliency whatsoever, they've just been raised to be scared of everything all the time without any lessons on how to do things that scare them and manage risk, and a lot of them only have avoidance as a coping tool.

they especially have not been taught to critically think about supposed threats or research the truth about rumors or stories they've heard, and "researching" anything on Google is now such a dicey proposition I'm not sure you can even really debunk things for yourself anymore unless you've already grown up without Web 3. this isn't their fault, their parents and teachers have done this intentionally, but it really makes me angry that so many young people are being needlessly made to suffer like this.

This show is great. I watched it in 2017. And i have no idea why there are almost no people talking about it. If you didn't watch it do it.it might be a little slow in the beginning but it's still great. Just. Nice.

There is time travel (from 2077 to 2012), good-to-bad and bad-that-looks-like-good and good-that-is-actually-not, dystopia, subtle details about the future, not subtle details of future, VERY interesting change of view on what is the 'bad' side and what is the 'good' one, and then there are just no sides at all, just people. AND ALSO THE BAD GUY SENDS PEOPLE BACK IN TIME TO FIX THE MESS HE'S DONE. Very cool.

By the way the main character doubting her side. 10000/10. Just watch it.

Created by Simon Barry. Starring: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo, Roger Cross, Lexa Doig, Tony Amendola, Omari Newton, Luvia Petersen, Jennifer Spence, Brian Markinson, Ryan Robbins.

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