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| Gun Bunny at White Supremacist Gun Rally in Richmond, Virginia, MLK day 2020 |
This woman might not be every man's idea of a 'babe', but by her dress I'm inclined to think she has her head screwed on right, which is more important.
Handwaving Freakoutery has a good post up about internet memes and people's brains. I think this analogy about how society works is pretty good:
We have spoken extensively here about modeling the modern social media engine as a legitimate, verifiable brain, which works in the same manner as an artificial neural network.
We might summarize this idea as follows. People behave on social media in the exact same way as neurons in a brain. Your feed is a series of impulses you gather from your dendrites (connections), you evaluate which of those signals to amplify, and then you like or share a signal, sending it down your axon (repost) to other neurons. This evaluation you make, about whether to share something or not, is performed based on an internal function rooted partially in your biology, but probably rooted largely in your indoctrinations.
Handwaving freakoutery has several interesting articles on his site.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of memes I found what was claimed to be the first published meme in Judge Magazine in 1921.
Thinking about it political cartoons in the papers are memes with much information in a single picture, a lot of it subtle.