Given changes around Yahoo!, our little coffee clutch, which frequents the Linus Pauling House, has revectored a lot of its conversations to other social media. As a listowner, I've busied myself with downloading the archives, pre shut down. I've been going back over some of the communications, just to assure myself we still have a record.
I randomly opened a deeply buried example, zipped within zips (the downloaded structure is elaborate), and came across a posting by Brian Sharp. He was questioning the ISEPP president's controversial stance, which was par for the course in our subculture (cult). You might think the president of a science organization would hold to mainstream views in academia. On the contrary, his style has been to take a radically unpopular stance and stir up debate. That's kept our discussions peppy.
Fast forward to 2019: here's a link to a similar conversation happening today, but on Facebook instead, and hence with a different audience. Instead of a smattering of other Wanderers, we reach a random audience determined by Facebook's algorithms.
I randomly opened a deeply buried example, zipped within zips (the downloaded structure is elaborate), and came across a posting by Brian Sharp. He was questioning the ISEPP president's controversial stance, which was par for the course in our subculture (cult). You might think the president of a science organization would hold to mainstream views in academia. On the contrary, his style has been to take a radically unpopular stance and stir up debate. That's kept our discussions peppy.
Fast forward to 2019: here's a link to a similar conversation happening today, but on Facebook instead, and hence with a different audience. Instead of a smattering of other Wanderers, we reach a random audience determined by Facebook's algorithms.
