my mind begins to hum...

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[third person perspective]

hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius redundant name calling),
from the Greek ‘ιπποπόταμος (hippopotamos, hippos meaning "horse"
and potamos meaning "river")














































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[third person perspective]

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[mayavin]

A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining
systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage, drainage, venting,
heating and air-conditioning, or industrial process plant piping.

[mayavin]

The word plumber dates from the Roman Empire. In Roman times, pipes
were made of lead, or plumbum in Latin (hence the periodic table of the
elements symbol of Pb for lead). Thus, a person with expertise in working
with pipes was known as a Plumbumber, which was eventually shortened
to plumber.

Lead poisoning is a medical condition, also known as saturnism, plumbism
or painter's colic, caused by increased blood lead levels.

Lead's easy workability, low melting point and corrosion resistance were
among its attractions.

Lead toxicity was first recognized as early as 2000 BCE.

Julius Caesar's engineer, Vitruvius, who also served his successor Caesar
Augustus, reported, "Water is much more wholesome from earthenware
pipes than from lead pipes. For it seems to be made injurious by lead,
because white lead paint is produced from it; and this is said to be
harmful to the human body."

[mayavin]

groups fruits

[the fire elf]

A blast radius is the area that will be affected when an explosion occurs. A
blast radius is often associated with, but not limited to, bombs and other
weapons. It is generally important to clear the blast radius before the
explosion occurs, unless the bomb is intended to be an anti-personnel
device






build me an ark.

[mayavin]

Media meshing is described simply as using one or more forms of media,
such as a blog or a website, to enhance the experience of another form,
such as news paper article or a fictional television program. It is related
to integrated media and also describes the activity of commercial entities
when they encourage web traffic through non-web media such as
billboards or newspaper stories . However, for the participant, meshing
goes beyond simply Mutually inclusive public relations across media forms
and product placement; broadband technology and diversity of online
services have increased the accessibility and prevalence of simultaneous
media experiences to the point where some would argue there is a new,
more demanding and more inquisitive, incarnation of information
consumers.



Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or
information – the activity of making information available for public view.
In some cases, authors may be their own publishers.

[third person perspective]

Practical limitations to media neutrality include the inability of journalists
to report all available stories and facts, and the requirement that selected
facts be linked into a coherent narrative (Newton 1989). Since it is
impossible to report everything, some bias is inevitable. Government
influence, including overt and covert censorship, biases the media in
some countries. Market forces that can result in a biased presentation
include the ownership of the news source, the selection of staff, the
preferences of an intended audience, or pressure from advertisers.
Political affiliations arise from ideological positions of media owners and
journalists. The space or air time available for reports, as well as
deadlines needed to be met, can lead to incomplete and apparently
biased stories.

[the fire elf]

Political bias has been a feature of the mass media since its birth with the
invention of the printing press. The expense of early printing equipment
restricted media production to a limited number of people. Historians have
found that publishers often served the interests of powerful social groups.

John Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of
Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications
advocating freedom of the press.

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln accused
newspapers in the border states of bias in favor of the Southern cause,
and ordered many newspapers closed.

Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany, in the years leading up to World War
II, accused newspapers of Marxist bias, an accusation echoed by pro-
German media in England and the United States.

In the 1980s, the government of South Africa accused newspapers of
liberal bias and instituted government censorship. In 1989, the newspaper
New Nation was closed by the government for three months for publishing
anti-apartheid propaganda. Other newspapers were not closed, but were
extensively censored. Some published the censored sections blacked out,
to demonstrate the extent of government censorship. In America during
the labor union movement and the civil rights movement, newspapers
supporting liberal social reform were accused by conservative
newspapers of communist bias. Film and television media were accused of
bias in favor of mixing of the races, and many television programs with
racially mixed casts, such as I Spy and Star Trek, were not aired on
Southern stations.

[the fire elf]

Mass media, despite its ability to project worldwide, is limited in its cross-
ethnic compatibility by one simple attribute -- language. Ethnicity, being
largely developed by a divergence in geography, language, culture, genes
and similarly, point of view, has the potential to be countered by a
common source of information. Therefore, language, in the absence of
translation, comprises a barrier to a worldwide community of debate and
opinion, although it is also true that media within any given society may
be split along class, political or regional lines. Furthermore, if the
language is translated, the translator has room to shift a bias by choosing
weighed words for translation.

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

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[third person perspective]

Radical transparency is a management method where nearly all decision
making is carried out publicly.

Radical transparency requires decision making to be transparent right
from the beginning of the decision making process, while accountability is
a process of verifying the quality of decisions or actions after they have
been taken. This difference implies that while accountability generally
implements some sort of punishment mechanism against individuals or
institutions judged to have taken poor quality decisions or actions, after
those decisions have been taken or actions carried out, radical
transparency encourages corrections and improvements to decisions to
be made long before poor quality decisions have the chance to be
enacted. Hence, radical transparency potentially helps avoid the need for
punishment mechanisms.

[the fire elf]

[third person perspective]

An information society is a society in which the creation, distribution,
diffusion, use, and manipulation of information is a significant economic,
political, and cultural activity. The knowledge economy is its economic
counterpart whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation
of understanding.

Specific to this kind of society is the central position information
technology has for production, economy, and society at large. Information
society is seen as the successor to industrial society.

The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source
code from a high level language to a lower level language (e.g., assembly
language or machine language). A program that translates from a low
level language to a higher level one is a decompiler. A program that
translates between high-level languages is usually called a language
translator, source to source translator, or language converter. A language
rewriter is usually a program that translates the form of expressions
without a change of language.

[mayavin]

Systematic bias is a bias resulting from the system, leading on average to
systematic errors, in contrast to random errors, which on average cancel
each other out.

An example of systematic bias would be a thermometer that always reads three degrees colder than the actual temperature because of an incorrect initial calibration or labelling, whereas one that gave random values within five degrees either side of the actual temperature would be considered a random error.

Once detected and quantified, it may be easy to compensate for a
systematic bias. In the example just given, one knows that the
thermometer always reads three degrees below the correct value. Thus,
one can simply make a systematic correction by adding three degrees to
all readings. In other cases, while a systematic bias is suspected or even
detected, no simple correction may be possible because it is impossible to
quantify the error. Random errors can in some cases be reduced by
repeating the experiment several times and considering an average
result; in other cases repetition is not possible.

The existence and causes of systematic bias may be difficult to detect without an independent source of information; the phenomenon of scattered readings resulting from random error calls more attention to itself from repeated estimates of the same quantity than the mutually consistent incorrect results of a biased system.

However, systematic bias can additionally sometimes be used to imply
planned human agency. Systematic bias therefore can also mean that the
system produces bias as a consequence of consistent, deliberate and
planned human interference.



Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce and
government, used by one group to try to undermine the position of a
competitor. It in fact is the act of deception and blatant false statements
to convince someone of an untruth

Unlike traditional propaganda and Big Lie techniques designed to engage
emotional support, disinformation is designed to manipulate the audience
at the rational level by either discrediting conflicting information or
supporting false conclusions.

Another technique of concealing facts, or censorship is also used if the
group can affect such control. When channels of information cannot be
completely closed, they can be rendered useless by filling them with
disinformation, effectively lowering their signal-to-noise ratio.

[mayavin]

Information warfare is the use and management of information in pursuit
of a competitive advantage over an opponent.

Information warfare may involve collection of tactical information,
assurance that one's own information is valid, spreading of propaganda or
disinformation among the enemy, undermining the quality of opposing
force information and denial of information collection opportunities to
opposing forces.

Information about own forces, allied forces and opposing forces has
always been a key feature of military operations, discussed in Sun Tzu's
The Art of War:

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of
a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every
victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

In human communication, in particular, in journalism, gatekeeping is the
process through which ideas and information are filtered for publication.
The internal decision making process of relaying or withholding
information from the media to the masses. The theory was first instituted
by social psychologist Kurt Lewin in 1947 and is still one of the most
important theories studied by students of mass communication and
journalism. Gatekeeping occurs at all levels of the media structure - from
a reporter deciding which sources are chosen to include in a story to
editors deciding which stories are printed, or even covered.

[the fire elf]

Institutional memory is a collective of facts, concepts, experiences and
know-how held by a group of people. As it transcends the individual, it
requires the ongoing transmission of these memories between members
of this group.

Institutional memory may be encouraged to preserve a group's ideology
or way of work. Conversely, institutional memory may be ingrained to the
point that it becomes hard to challenge if something is found to contradict
that which was previously thought to have been correct.

[the fire elf]

Syncretism consists of the attempt to reconcile disparate or contradictory
beliefs, often while melding practices of various schools of thought. The
term may refer to attempts to merge and analogize several originally
discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion,
and thus assert an underlying unity.

Syncretism also occurs commonly in literature, music, the
representational arts and other expressions of culture.

[the fire elf]

syncretismus, drawing on Greek συνκÏ

[mayavin]

shall we have a deluge of remixed information storm?

[mayavin]

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or near the summit ofbeing,
along with crag, one among a mere
handful of Celtic loanfor origin of the word
and the very fact it has survived hints
at the places' special
meaning to the gaelic peoples, often being
and Bodmin -words (Old Welsh twrr, Scots
Gaelic tòrr), primarily of a geographic
or topographical ecause the beach
is framed by a huge outcrop of
carboniferous limestone. The
term isnature, to be borrowed
into vernacular English prior to
the modern era. ThisWales, particularly
on the rocky coastlines such as the Vale of Glamorgan
and the Gower Peninsula; on the Gcentres of ritual a hill. In the South
near Oxwich Bay is called 'Tor Bay' b notable MooEngland, where the
term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves —
particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon ower one of the sandy
beaches type of rock outcrop formed by weathering, usually r in Cornwall.
The word 'tor' is also used in southern and beliefs in the mystic and
spiritual (A belief which in some cases carries on to today).

[the fire elf]

oh, and then next
comes the story
of the one who built a marvel of a temple
with a hatchet

then looked at the hatchet

decided not to condemn it to a lesser fate

and tossed it into a lake

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

covered with loose rocks, known as clitter,
which have provided ready building materials for thousands of years.

[third person perspective]

the cliff-house, which is actually built on levels in the cliff, and
the cavate house, which is dug out, by using natural recesses or
openings.



Some of the most famous of these are the North American cliff-dwellings,
particularly among the canyons of the southwest, in Arizona, New Mexico,
Utah, Colorado and Chihuahua in Mexico, some of which are still used by
Native Americans.