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Terry Elliott

The Zeitgeist - 1 views

jarche.com/the-zeitgeist

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  • Businesses often want to see the ROI of something before committing to it. This is just a defence mechanism to ensure the status quo. If we keep the investment low enough, we don’t need to worry about the return on it. This allows for wide experimentation; not quick wins but quick losses.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Oct 14
       
      Invite to do, low bar/small incentive, participation/experimentation.
  • The zeitgeist is the need for organizational change.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Oct 14
       
      Tell the story of the zeitgeist.
  • I usually suggest that it does not matter what you do, just do something. Let people safely experiment. I suggested to a school board that they give $100 to every teacher to invest in whatever they wanted, without any direction. Teachers could buy something for their classrooms, or perhaps a number of them could pool their money and make a larger impact. The cost would be low. The impact would be wide. The possibilities would be greater than any central committee could plan.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 12 Oct 14
       
      This is so wise.  And reminds of the work that community organizers do.  
Terry Elliott

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto - Wikisource, the free online library - 2 views

en.wikisource.org/...Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto

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  • Information is power.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Nov 14
       
      Disinformation is power, too.
  • want to keep it for themselves.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Nov 14
       
      Real power is shared information.
  • increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Nov 14
       
      Information everywhere yearns to be free, yet it is in chains.
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  • You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Nov 14
       
      These guys are the tip of the iceberg. What rips out the guts of the ship are below the waterline.
Terry Elliott

To be or not to be cartoon characters. In a Greek tragedy. | Brave New World - 0 views

taniasheko.com/...-characters-in-a-greek-tragedy

ifttt delicious diigo

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  • Cartoon worlds were more colourful, more exciting, funnier
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 15 Nov 14
       
      Cartoon worlds are legible. James Scott's idea of legibility.
  • falling off a cliff and being squashed into a flat pancake upon landing,
  • Mr Hodgson K. qualifies as an honorary cartoon character.
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  • prose is poetry, references labyrinthine, whose playfulness is akin to the Dadaists.
  • four rounds and then you’re out.
  • Boy George F2F (3D)
Terry Elliott

Sean Michael Morris | Contemplative Pedagogue - 1 views

www.seanmichaelmorris.com

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  • a scholarship in the act
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 18 Nov 14
       
      I believe in this kind of scholarship.  In fact, my latest post is an act of this kind of scholarship.
Jeffrey Keefer

Omnifeed - Teaching with Inoreader - 0 views

sites.google.com/...omnifeed

#ccourses

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  • Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14
     
    Omnifeed - Teaching with Inoreader via @OnlineCrsLady #ccourses
Jeffrey Keefer

Teaching with Inoreader - 0 views

sites.google.com/...home

teaching #ccourses

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  • Jeffrey Keefer on 23 Nov 14
     
    via @OnlineCrsLady #ccourses
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: To nobody. - 2 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/...to-nobody.html

shared by Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Dear Nobody,
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Oh friend, how did you know my name?
  • How are you today?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Fine. Fine. No, wait.  I actually feel kind of coarse. I feel like I have first world, white man problems.  Not real.  Maybe I should become a cutter. Have real problems. 
  • I am thinking about you.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      About nothing?  Nothing about nothing? Oh, yes, it is just an idiom. So if you are not thinking about something are you thinking about nothing.  Words in the service of solipsism.  Shallow.  All we have.
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  • writing on the internet
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      I giant whiteboard written upon with a giant white marker, erasing and writing, blips, zerone morse code. 
  • I am writing a letter to you
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Nov 14
       
      Please let it be "omega".  I love it because I have heard that the last shall be first and the first last. 
  • writing on a piece of paper
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      When we write we actually leave behind a trail of something, evidence of ideas gone by, fictive snails since everything we write is utter fiction.  
  • on a stone.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      a headstone? yeah, the most common kind of writing these days.
  • Imagine you
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      Keep thinking Imagine University
  • I am sorry you will never read it.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 27 Nov 14
       
      If you publish a post in the digital forest and you are part of the 61% who have no access to the digital forest, does that mean you didn't feel it fall to the floor of the larger reality?
  • wanted to know how you are?
Terry Elliott

Experimenting with Friends (AKA, Connecting) | RhetCompNow - 2 views

rhetcompnow.com/...ng-with-friends-aka-connecting

ccourses

shared by Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • riffing
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Riffing is a good way to explain it. I "listen" to what he has been doing, move into it and then try to expand that harmony outside of it. Then, he seems to do the same. Here, Terry moves it all in another direction, so interestingly.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      yes I keep coming back to idea of music and theatrical space
  • Explain Everything
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Need to explore that app more ....
  • Slow consideration is often the most efficient consideration.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      And this is something that gets lost often in the fast-paced world of digital media. It's all whizz bang pow .. move along, little doggy ... and I wish I slowed down more often, to absorb the beauty of the media moment.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      Yes slowing down, but on the other hand...
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  • raw practice
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      There's something to be said for the raw experience, though, particularly we grapple with the confines of a tool/app/technology, try to understand the possibilities/limitations, and then push beyond that. I feel like we're always in the battle of agency with technology.
  •  I can do more.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Mantra of the day ....
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      I can do less.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      More or less, less is more. Unless of course it is less.
  • You can spin stuff
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      DJ Terry ... two turntables and a microphone .. that where it's at ...
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      Aha DJ ing - funny how that was what I was playing with yesterday
  • feel closer to the ‘texts’
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      This seems to be the crux of the remix concept, right? As we work with other media, wrangle it into something new, we get closer to the source of inspiration. We're removing some of the barriers between reader/writer, producer/consumer ... in a good way (in my opinion).
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      I am not sure if I feel closer to texts or closer to untexts
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14
       
      That is part of what I am getting at with the rhizoid quote near end. Resonance, wiggling and entangling roots.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 06 Dec 14
       
      And who knows, maybe there is an ur-text we are all worming toward. Disturbing image, yes, but I actually love worms.
  • powerful sense of play
  • I am so thankful to be connected like this.  I think that making might be our salvation.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Yep.
  • I think that connected learning may well be the story that straddles this divide.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
       
      Here another pull-out quote that should be plastered on the virtual walls of our learning spaces.
    • Simon Ensor
      Simon Ensor on 03 Dec 14
       
      GRAFFITI i think that we are tagging virtual walls.
  • Kevin Hodgson on 03 Dec 14
     
    Terry's piece that pulls strands in, expanding them out
  • Terry Elliott on 03 Dec 14
     
    Terry's piece that pulls strands in, expanding them out
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: Goodbye Kafka. - 0 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/...goodbye-kafka.html

ifttt delicious diigo

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  • I drove my girls to school this morning.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Inside to outside.  Views in a frame. Gregor Samsa waking up forever trapped in the box that Kafka made.  
  • looked up
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      O, eyes, incline thee to heaven, away from objects insufficient unto the moment.
  • snow,
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  • pink glint
  • rising sun
  • together gazing up at its beauty
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Not gazing at its beauty, but at it. Not living through it. Living it.
  • We laughed, I don't remember why
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      We laughed in remembrance of the unremembered.
  • mountains are considered sacred places
  • words, numbers, pictures can be considered as a trap
  • talk of technology, I would say that language is a technology
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Talk of tech. Talk is tech. We recede from eternity as if stung.  Words = bees, swarming off the Hive. Not the hive. Servants to the hive.
  • The word is not the thing. Alfred Korsybski
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Korzybski said the word is not the thing, but his words were not the thing.  
  • happy to escape from the spreadsheet experiment
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      so happy to escape the spreedsheet of world framed with words.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Windshield and window and text box and monitor and post-it and page herding us  from the commons into the margins. Gate clangs shut.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      from the commons to the margins past the threshhold and door locked tight. Against our going. Against your coming.
  • all this cell formating lark which made me feel claustrophobic
  • Last night I played around with zeega.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      And we ask because we are driven to escape the bonecage of words:  can we find another way out? 
  • I found the result, paranoia inducing, dark
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Are we worms, are we moles, are we roots rhizomatic and tunneling to escape these locked and formatted cells, paranoids in the dark, driven to Perdition by firebrand angels?
  • had enough black and white
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No.  Remember that roots break through the dark with whip and branch and leaf.  
  • enough of cells, of breaking things down to their bones. 
  • had enough of cells, of breaking things down to their bones. 
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No. We can pile up the borders and frames in the middle and set it all aflame.
  • I am fed up with keyboards, glass screens
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      No more input. No more output. Time to put those those to words away.
  • texture, grass, wind, sunshine, laughter
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Words are changeling kafkas. Pile them in a pyre. Burn them with flint&steel&laugther real.
  • Goodbye Kafka.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Dec 14
       
      Goodbye Ungeziefer. Goodbye Gregor Samsa. God be with you Kafka.
Terry Elliott

touches of sense...: A ramblers guide? - 0 views

tachesdesens.blogspot.com/...a-ramblers-guide.html

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  • A point of view is a lie.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 09 Nov 14
       
      POV=LIE
Tania Sheko

Abbott government to overhaul crowded curriculum - 1 views

www.smh.com.au/...urriculum-20141012-114vrg.html

government curriculum abbott

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  • Overcrowding in the curriculum was the main issue of concern raised by principals, teachers and parents during the review conducted by education consultant Kevin Donnelly and academic Ken Wiltshire.
  • The reviewers said they were not saying there was no place for inquiry-based learning but that caution should be exercised to ensure it did not become the prevailing orthodoxy.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 12 Oct 14
       
      What does that actually mean? Inquiry learning should be exercised with caution? "There will be no inquiry in mathematics!"
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      Well...sounds pretty much like the institutional behavior I see here in the states. The structure determines and in this case the hierarchy trumps the commonest of sense. Sounds very bad for learners.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      In which country does this not happen? (That's not rhetorical).
Terry Elliott

Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi laptop you build yourself! | Indiegogo - 1 views

www.indiegogo.com/...y-pi-laptop-you-build-yourself

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  • Terry Elliott on 21 Oct 14
     
    Anyone using this group?
Kevin Hodgson

K-Log: #CCourses: Thinking Like the Web - 3 views

justywk.blogspot.com/...courses-thinking-like-web.html

ccourses mooc web

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  • There's a lot of information offered by the course, but we don't have to cover all of them during these two weeks.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      "Time" becomes different when you are in an open online space. While we might put time constraints around ideas (this Make Cycle, this Learning Cycle), a true open learning space would allow entry and exit, and re-entry, at any point in time. This doesn't always jive with university criteria (finish this during this semester or you get an incomplete!)
  • sketch
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      love the sketch! The visual element dovetails nicely with the visual element of how we experience and interact with the Web. We don't all see the underlying code. We see the illusion of the graphics.
  • when people connect and realize that a gap in their knowledge can be filled by bits of information
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  • #DailyConnect feature
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Yeah!
  • These led to a bit of conversation which made me feel that the course wasn't static but alive
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      This is so important -- that we are not writing into the wind ... that others are out there, connecting and sharing and asking questions, and pushing us to ask questions, too. When that part of a cMOOC fails, the entire endeavor is pointless. I see a course like CCourses as a place to launch from as much as dive into.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 22 Oct 14
       
      Love your thinking in this piece, Yin.
Tania Sheko

A human OER | doublemirror - 6 views

mdvfunes.com/...a-human-oer

clmooc via:packrati.us ds106 ccourses IFTTT Pocket

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  • the web does ‘make sense of what we are doing and where we individually fit in’.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      HIve mind? Collective unconscious? Zeitgeist?  Not sure there is anything alive that can see more than what we hope is a fractal piece of the "Web".
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      But it is how we pull those fractals together that pushes us to consider/reconsider emerging literacies
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      I think what I mean is that no one sees it all. Just like no one can manage chaos. It doesn't mean that we can't grasp for a piece of the meaning, and maybe it is fractal, by getting a piece we might have access to a quick glimpse of it all. So many unknown unknowns and so many folk claiming to have figured it all out. Unless of course you give the classic Socratic cop-out of "I know that I know nothing." Yeah, that sucks.
  • see pattern
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      humans as pattern makers even where there is none or even where they might be
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Trusting our "gut instinct" about the viability of an online space ... will I belong here or not?
  • They are a marker of belonging as much as a marker of exclusion.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      Boundaries are rigid, permeable, and semi-permeable in nature.  Are they such in our social constructs?  Is this just another pattern seen in a metaphor that extends just far enough to trip us up?  Well...I hope not. I kinda like it.
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  • All of this has felt quite unsatisfactory to me as I reflect on how to engage those people who have not made the transition to working in the open web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There are lots of assumptions packed into the acronym soup, one being that they aren't just another example of the 'rich' getting richer.
  • Who am I in this meditated world that is the open web?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      An essential question for anyone working on the web.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Agreed
  • I want to be part of the larger whole, not just the subset.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      There is a web, whole and entire that subsumes every living being on the planet. In every important way we already are part of the larger whole.  I am drawn once again to James Scott's idea of legibility.  Great summary of idea in one picture on this website: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/
  • a significant part of earth does not have a presence on the web
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 24 Oct 14
       
      About 60% do not have access according to this source: "Key ICT indicators for developed and developing countries and the world (totals and penetration rates)", International Telecommunications Unions (ITU), Geneva, 27 February 2013
  • am full of wonder about the kindness and gentle nature of the people in my network
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Love the poetic ideal here, and I think it is this element that brings us back into a space to connect with others.
    • swatson217
      swatson217 on 27 Oct 14
       
      I have been struck by the same thoughts
  • My ‘hashtag home’
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      This phrase is so interesting to me in a lot of ways ... a hashtag both stands by itself and is connected to other posts/ideas with same hashtag. Is it just Twitter-centric? It hints at the larger architecture of our experiences in online spaces, of lifelines that we throw out to others in hopes that our words/ideas won't stand alone in silence.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      It's interesting that hashtags - similar to the traditional keywords used for online search (markers) - have become communal 'spaces' or 'homes'. When we create a hashtag, are we trying to build 'homes' to invite people in? And if we use a hashtag only understood by few, our invitation is selective.
  • The tension between freedom of speech and member equality plays out in a more or less explicit way always.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      And here we have one of the central points of being in online spaces. Is it a "true space" where things can go awry? (as in real life beyond the screen). Or do we want those with opposing views filtered out from the start?
  • people who I respect do tell me consistently that the language used can feel unwelcoming at the start.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Really? Interesting .... I have not heard that from anyone but I can see how someone might feel like it was an exclusive party of makers and less an inclusive party of "everyone." I guess ... truthfully, I never felt that with DS106.
    • Tania Sheko
      Tania Sheko on 03 Dec 14
       
      All foreign language feels excluding.
  • Norms self-organise as people do, they are implicit. There is no explicit contracting upfront and no consequence for non-compliance that I have found in any of the MOOCs I have joined.
  • What prompted this post was a small realisation that has helped me keep the baby and let the bathwater out. May be we are overlaying the wrong construct on our online lives. May be this is not ‘a classroom’ and I am not ‘a teacher’ or ‘a learner’. May be I am just a human being using a technology to interact with other human beings  for a variety of purposes – one of which can be learning to make art, to knit or to be a good digital citizen.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      I love this realization, and agree with it. Her thoughts help connect beyond the learning itself (no matter the platform) and into the act of being a human whose part of the fabric of the world (not to get too corny about it)
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 26 Oct 14
       
      Yes, doing much the same with my seed sharing project.
  • As a participant I can choose to be part of disturbing and ambiguous spaces.
  • For me this is about sharing ideas, it is about knowing a person not what she/he can do for me, it is about having fun together exploring stuff and not being afraid to disagree with each other and ourselves regularly.
    • Kevin Hodgson
      Kevin Hodgson on 25 Oct 14
       
      Me, too.
  • live life as inquiry
  • Innovation may occur where people are creatively engaged, but it cannot be dictated and it cannot be planned, it must be found from the emergent actions of people who are struggling with a task. “
  • As we struggle with the task we follow a set of norms and learn something off-book – how to live and learn on the open web.
  • This is in the background not the foreground and I think this matters when I compare it with other experiences
  • power dynamics exist in the shadow of groups perhaps too often. These get played out covertly, unspoken and our options when we do not like it are limited. Stay and comply or leave.
  • This sorting process, by definition, includes some people and excludes others.
  • In online learning communities, it seems to me, we are using hashtags as our ‘brand’.
  • It creates a mantra, the chanting of which identifies you as a member. People who are ‘in’ are quite willing to surrender to this higher authority. People who are not ‘in’ are ‘out’ and are subject to various sanctions from the group, including hostility.
  • A reviewer to one of my papers said  ‘that the practice that many share in virtual courses is just studying online and that in less structured communities people just end up talking about their experience of studying.’
  • the task is coming together online and this leads to a bias towards consent not dissent. This is problematic for diversity.
  • You need only scan how people wear their cMOOC attendance as an online resume or badge of honour
  • The hashtags are created to stand for something and as with any collection of individuals who identify with something, the quality of the interaction can ‘go south’ as people find their feet and implicit norms a majority share evolve. This is what happens when a group is left to self-organise.
  • People interact in dysfunctional ways if left to their own devices more often than not. Online it seems a ‘escape clause’ for making any behaviour acceptable  is “it is not real, it is the internet”  and “you can always move on if you don’t like it”.
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