Design Is the New Tobacco, Architecture as Liability | Meta & YouTube Verdicts This week's social media rulings actually established, and why anyone building technology should be paying attention.

Wrote about the legal innovation, the #McLuhan connection, and what it means for anyone building systems that shape behavior: blog.jesparent.com/p/design-is-... #meta #youtube

1966 Marshall #McLuhan - Visionary

— Official Website of Marshall McLuhan: marshallmcluhan.com
— The Marshall McLuhan Understanding [396 pages]: designopendata.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
— The archives of Marshall McLuhan Québec: cap.banq.qc.ca/search/b6578...

#InformationProcessing

Huge radar-looking, antenna-like thingy moved from the top of a building to a borrowed, free stock, desert background.

"All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values."

~ Marshall McLuhan

#photography #composite #media #mcluhan

Can You Hear Me Now?

the medium is my 5 am skeet the message is that I need to fucking lock in before my life goes to shambles
#mcluhan #midd #blessed

ella’s room is always the medium #mcluhan #midd #blessed

that moment when you realize that the message of 6 7 is that there is no message and rather it represents the chaos of online society
#mcluhan #midd #blessed

streameast is the medium having no friends is the message
#mcluhan #midd #blessed

HOW does table shape affect sociality?🧊🎶🥓🍔
#blessed #midd #mcluhan #atwater

The Patriots are the medium, unbridled joy is the message ☀️🌞🥳 #mcluhan #midd #blessed

I wonder how McLuhan would analyze the Boston driving culture #mcluhan #blessed #midd

Soccer is a medium that turns movement into culture and unity
#blessed
#midd
#mcluhan

The car is the medium my happiness is the message #mcluhan #blessed #midd

People thinking that following the food pyramid will provide them will a Healthy and a Happy Meal, yet fail to realize that it is just a medium for the government to promote American farmers’ interest #mcluhan #blessed #midd

The sneakers that I am currently wearing create a numbness towards the ground and fatigue. #mcluhan #midd #blessed

#mcluhan would have loved the sociality of drinking beer in Brazil #midd #blessed

Just went to mass and experienced the pews as a medium! #mcluhan #blessed #midd

Lifting is the medium, the message is being able to fight my older brother for the front seat. #mcluhan #blessed #midd

i want a mcluhan level stream of consciousness #mcluhan #midd #blessed

the Smithsonian is the medium, historical erasure is the message. #mcluhan #midd #blessed⁉️

all these posts about 2016 have me feeling so #nostalgic ... is the medium the pictures/posts or the #glitter #snapchatfilters and #bestmusicever ? ✨🐶🎶 is the message that we should #havemorefun 😄, or #electbetterleaders 🗳️? #mcluhan #midd #blessed

my computer is the medium and minecraft for 3 hours is the message #2weekminecraftphase #mcluhan #blessed #midd

Reading the news and realizing I’m actively partaking in the Global Village. Do I want that? #mcluhan #midd #blessed

If gambling is the medium, faith and fortune is clearly the message there 🤯 #mcluhan #blessed #midd

The medium is a call vs text, the message is I don’t have social anxiety vs I do have social anxiety. Pls only text me. #mcluhan #blessed #midd #anxiousatmidd

if snow the meduim, then is coldness the message?
#blessed #midd #mcluhan

Bluesky’s message to liberals is “welcome home, you will never be challenged here” #McLuhan #blessed #midd

Thinking about clothing as a medium. Different styles serve a status symbols or lifestyle signifiers. 🧊🎶🎶🥓 the media IS the message
#blessed #midd #mcluhan

pasta is the medium, group morale is the message #midd #blessed #mcluhan

The medium is the weather (snow) and whether I stay in my room or go out is the message #mcluhan #blessed #midd

The medium?
hair
The message?
Gay AF
#mcluhan #blessed #midd