Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #977 - Suggested Daily Media Diet
Hi Mom,
I liked this article on the daily media diet, but I decided to add a couple other items.
Quickie because we're preparing to go out of town.
/ / 11:07 AM WED MAR 7, 2018Suggested Media Diet
FROM - https://boingboing.net/2018/03/07/suggested-media-diet.html
'What's the right balance for a healthy mind?"
Faris Yakob of the creative agency Genius/Steals developed a "Media Diet Pyramid" modeled after the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid (which seems to be based on a lot of old, incorrect ideas about nutrition, but I digress).
"The media we eat for 12 hours on average a day constitute the bulk of the ideas we consume," Faris says in his essay. "What’s the right balance for a healthy mind?"
Faris suggests avoiding junk food sites like InfoWars, Goop, and The Daily Mail.
You can safely consume a half hour of social media, online porn, and "rolling news consumption sites" like CNN.
Text, email, and broadcast TV are OK for an hour.
Games and Netflix get two hours.
NPR, NYT, WSJ, NatGeo, SciAM, and hobby interest sites are OK for three hours.
Tabletop games, music, theater, art, books, and conversation are basically the green leafy vegetables at the bottom of the pyramid - you can consume all you want.
As a general guide, I think it's a good start.
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In other news, I wrote another post for SLASHDOT and despite Twitter sends and Facebook posts, this one is not getting enough traffic (YET).
Gimme up votes!
Gimme up votes!
https://slashdot.org/submission/7980469/redmonk-identifies-2018s-most-popular-languages-javascript-still-on-top
Redmonk identifies 2018's Most Popular Languages: Javascript still on top (redmonk.com)
Submitted by the gmrAs always, the consistent performance of our Tier 1 languages – the top ten, more or less – is at once surprising and unsurprising. The relatively static nature of the top ten languages is interesting, certainly, in a technology landscape that is best characterized not by the high level of change but the increasing pace of same. Conversely, however, it’s important to note that the numbers measured are accretive, and as with financial metrics rates of growth are fastest when projects are new and harder and harder to come by over time. New language entrants are behind from the day they are released, in other words, which makes displacing the most popular languages a significant and uphill battle.
However, new languages are making swift progress in the rankings despite this uphill climb. For instance, Go has vaulted into the top twenty faster than most other languages, though in this report it has been leapfrogged one place by Swift and dropped to sixteenth. More surprising is the success of Kotlin, which is second fastest growing language. Microsoft also earns bragging rights for the rise of both Powershell and Typescript. Though Scala dropped two spots, Rust continued its steady climb in popularity, beating out Clojure, Groovy, and Visual Basic, and landing at #23.
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In other other news, I finished watching Star Trek Discovery last night. Hey, don't judge. You may be able to watch things when they're released but I am lucky if I get to watch them at all.
I suspect I will have more thoughts, but here's some quick impressions.
BEWARE SPOILERS!!!!
You have been warned.
In general, I really liked it. It's edgy, dark, and updated for the modern era while retaining many nods to the original series, such as the appearance of Christopher Pike's Enterprise at the end of the finale and the mention of Archer's Enterprise "100 years before."
On the plus side, I liked the the reveal of Captain Lorca's true identity and the killing and "resurrection" of Philippa Georgiou. The Ash Tyler Klingon story was well executed. Burnham's Vulcan upbringing and her humanity was a good conflict but not one well executed in the show.
On the down side, the biggest negative is a failure to establish a strong ensemble. Though Sylvia Tilly and Saru are a good characters the rest of the crew is either left with no personalities at all or those who do receive some development like Stamets seems to be only characterized as being gay and with little else to define him.
Still, the show did enough well that I am excited for the second season, which may premiere in the Fall of 2018, though that date is not confirmed.
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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1803.09 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.
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