The text of this post, scoring 11% for orality as measured by BERT models on Havelock AI’s web app

A deliberately high orality rewritten version of the text of this post, reading like spoken language and conjoined with many “and”s

Inspired by Havelock AI's Orality Analyzer (havelock.ai/orality): a prompt to reduce 'orality' gist.github.com/lmmx/0f516ff...

Shifts prose from oral to literate register, from additive/formulaic toward subordinate/precise. Reworks stock phrases, 'coordination chains', redundancy, & direct address

Nano Banana, I like your images they are pretty, but your ability to work with specific dimensions needs a lot of work.

AI summarizing Technology and Orality in a Podcast - Who is Nick? Take Ong, Postman, McLuhan - smash them together in NotebookLM and then click Audio Overview. Have a listen and enjoy.

I was just tinkering with my theories of Orality & Aliteracy with NotebookLM and this is the podcast episode it made 🤯.

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Black and white photo of a somber man with a beard. On his upper lip is the white movember moustache logo.

It’s #Movember #Movember2025 again.

I do it for their work on mental health. I struggle; those I love struggle. Please donate, movember.com/m/ethernick

Instead of shock and awe, I shave a bit off every day. It’s fun for me. Follow along with daily posts on the fediverse pixelfed.social/ethernick

We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

We’ve entered a second age of orality. The written word’s influence is fading, replaced by short-form video slop. But if smartphones are to blame, so are the elites: as Noah McCormack argues, the history of literacy is the history of class.

Orality and the Sacral - Who is Nick? This weeks continuation of our oral culture discovery: "Orality, community and the sacral". You only get nervous about things that are important.

You only get nervous about things that are important.

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#Orality #Aliterate #Postliterate

My Verbomotor Kinda Life - Who is Nick? "Verbomotor Lifestyle". Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we're still good with subtitles?

"Verbomotor Lifestyle". Is it why no one wants to talk on the phone anymore? Is this the first twist for aliteracy and why we're still good with subtitles?

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#orality #aliterate #postliterate

On a new host. I'm pretty sure I copied over the DNS _atproto entry fine?

If not, when would I find out I broke things? On login, or when hitting "post"?

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Generative Memorization - Who is Nick? My exploration of Ong's 'Orality and Literacy'. Now "Oral Memorization" or is it "Generative Memorization"? From oral through literate to today, has memorization gone full circle?

75% of the way there. Just a few more of Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality. If I can match all of them... what then?

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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.

Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq

Information Economy: Now with Time - Who is Nick? Today I saw that the Georgia Straight launched an insiders club. It reminded me, why aren't we seeing more traditional publication business models? It's not just the fire-hose or the vault. I've got i...

The things we could do with the publishing business model. Spoiler, it's time.

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This black-and-white studio portrait depicts a young man in his late 20s or early 30s, with neatly combed dark wavy hair that curls slightly at the sides and forehead, a thin mustache, and a serious, contemplative expression as he gazes directly at the camera. He is dressed formally in a dark woolen suit jacket, white collared shirt, and dark tie, against a plain gradient background that fades from light to dark, typical of early 20th-century formal photography.

On this day in 1911, Marshall McLuhan was born in Edmonton. He became a leading philosopher whose work is a cornerstone of media theory. He coined the expression "the medium is the message". He also predicted the World Wide Web three decades before it was invented.

It all looks the same - Who is Nick? Have you noticed nothing seems that new anymore? "Conservative or traditionalist" - The next topic in my exploration of Ong's, Orality and literacy.

Keeping up with Ong and #Orality.

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This industry gives me a headache sometimes.

The past 500 years has proven you can be #Literate and not be the smart.

You can be #Aliterate and smart.

The more we bucket intelligence with literacy, the more we throw fuel on the fire for some to weaponize.

#Orality

We are deep in “it” - Who is Nick? Back to the exploration of Ong's characteristics of an Oral Culture. Focusing on "Empathetic and Participatory Rather than Objectively Distanced

While I’m not a comms prof, I have been mulling on this for a bit, from a bigger perspective. No answers.

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Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? Your brain isn’t what it used to be.

Um… ya. But I fear the intellectual superiority of it all. What will this opinion do to enrage the aliterate?

www.vox.com/politics/414...

Weeknotes 2025-06-27 - Who is Nick? What have I been up to since last I weeknoted? Trying to flex the brain. A bit on Orality, a bit on ActivityPub.

Weeknotes, Weeknotes, makin notey note note 🎶🎵 Weeknotes! 👐👐

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Ha… so not a subtle dig on relationship. Gotcha.

Sing-le ?? 🤨

We are deep in “it” - Who is Nick? Back to the exploration of Ong's characteristics of an Oral Culture. Focusing on "Empathetic and Participatory Rather than Objectively Distanced

2 days; 2 posts exploring Ong #orality #aliterate

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Governance and Orality - Who is Nick? I've been digging into a thought for the past week starring out into the void wondering what to do next. With Decentralized/Federated Social Media, I'm seeing a lot of discussions on how do we want to...

I’ve been mulling much more about #Governance lately.

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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

Design is funny sometimes.

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How did you do that archive post?

Cyberculture 1960s-1990s and the Legacy of Alice Mary Hilton The word 'cyberculture' was coined by Alice Mary Hilton in 1963 and by the mid-90s was in common use. But Hilton never got her due, especially compared to her contemporary Marshall McLuhan.

Alice Mary Hilton is as significant as Marshall McLuhan in the history of cyberculture theory. In fact, she invented the word! Also, her 1960s focus on the practical impacts of computer automation on society is more important than ever in 2025, with the rise of AI. cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu...

Super excited for an actual filing cabinet in the house. The big metal ones. Clunk, filed! 🗄️

More excited than I should be???? It's similar to the day I was actually excited about buying a new vacuum.

I've been going through Ong's Psychodynamics of Orality and comparing to today. Not done, but slowly crossing them off the list and my own little #ADHD way.

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I was going to tweak my "Into the Postliterate" feed to remove refs to McLuhan because, at the time, it seemed like most people who use his name felt off the mark to me. But since the Jan 20, I'm glad I kept it.

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Not all weeknotes are sunshine and rainbows.

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