Thursday, June 13, 2024

Starlink

I plead as my excuse that I was quite busy, and not speaking Portuguese or Spanish makes checking sources hard. But the story about a remote tribe getting addicted to social media when Starlink arrived didn't pass the smell test, and I didn't get around to properly vetting it. Social media are text-based/driven; is a remote tribe going to have the literacy rate to get so many caught up in it?

2 comments:

  1. I'm not seeing where you previously told that story. Looks like no harm done.

    But you are correct. When things fit the conventional wisdom to cutely, be wary.

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  2. I should have posted something and didn't. It was so obvious, and nobody seemed to be skeptical.

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