"Ephemeral experiences": You might never have heard this phrase, but it's a very important concept. These are brief experiences you have online in which content appears briefly and then disappears, leaving no trace. Those are the kinds of experiences we have been preserving in our election monitoring projects. You can't see the search results that Google was showing you last month. They're not stored anywhere, so they leave no paper trail for authorities to trace. Ephemeral experiences are, it turns out, quite a powerful tool of manipulation....
And people are concerned about "big government." This is narrative control taken to a different level and the power lies with big tech. Of course, that can also be used by government.
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Robert Epstein: Big Tech's Greatest ThreatRobert Epstein via The Gatestone Institute
Life is an ephemeral experience.
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ReplyDeleteYeah, “ephemeral” is a Greek word — actually, two words;
“epi” ( the prefix “on”) and “hemera” ( the noun “day”)
The “p” when it precedes a word with a rough breathing ( the “h” in this case) turns into “phi”
You know... no Greek, no Latin; no Latin, no Romance languages.
“"Ephemeral experiences." Ever hear of this?”
ReplyDeleteYeah, “ephemeral” is a Greek word — actually, two words;
“epi” ( the prefix “on”) and “hemera” ( the noun “day”)
The “p” when it precedes a word with a rough breathing ( the “h” in this case) turns into “phi”
You know... no Greek, no Latin; no Latin, no Romance languages.
Insulin from Latin insula, 'island', is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets, also known as the islets of Langerhans, discovered in 1869 by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans. There are about 1 million islets distributed in the form of density routes throughout the pancreas of a healthy adult human, each of which measures an average of about 0.2 mm in diameter.
ReplyDeleteAlso, from the word insula, we get the word 'peninsula', which means 'almost an island'.
Another word is 'insulation'. Also, 'insular', because an 'insular person' is like an island in that they keep to themselves.
Hey Greek more of this etymology... it’s good stuff..,
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