“When you take a photo of something, you’re counting on the camera to remember for you,” Prof. Henkel says. “You’re basically saying, ‘Okay, I don’t need to think about this any further. The camera’s captured the experience.’ You don’t engage in any of the elaborative or emotional kinds of processing that really would help you remember those experiences, because you’ve outsourced it to your camera.”

and it goes

This is called the photo taking impairment effect, where my camera functions as a dropbox for my brain.

This, indeed hit us hard, be mindful, remember where we stand, enjoy the moment. and i have to admit, sometimes i don’t remember exactly the experience, i just knew that i was there, but the be present when i was there is kinda hard, and it worst with smartphone in your pocket. to admire, to appriciate what’s in front of you, we need to do that and let our brain capture all of that experieces.

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Dengan munggunakan sedikit keahlian di aplikasi photoshop misalkan, atau hasil ngambil gambar, meme yang bertebaran, membuat informasi tidak benar sangat gampang, diawali dengan kemalasan membaca, memcari kebenaran berita, verifikasi. dan akhirnya informasi makin liar menjadikan opini, kemudian menjadi satu faktor untuk memutuskan sesuatu.

Artikel tersebut memang menggambarkan apa yang terjadi di Amerika, tapi tidak jauh beda dengan apa yang terjadi di Indonesia, dengan sosial media dipenuhi ABG yang sok bicara politik, menyampaikan ide-ide sendiri, dipenuhi dengan kebencian yang tidak ada asalnya, ditambah dengan confirmation bias + cocoklogi menjadikan semakin keruhnya sosial media, ditambah menjelang pemilihan presiden.

As i mentioned before, i love RSS, i consumed quite a lot of rss for news feed, source code feed push, and also i love Podcast, listened to podcast for quite sometime, subscribed to a handful of podcast ‘station’.

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Kita tentu mengenal tokoh yang bisa dibilang bukan asli Indonesia seperti misalnya Laksamana Muda Maeda Takashi, yang membantu Indonesia merdeka. ada beberapa pahlawan lain yang mungkin tidak dikenal dikalangan luas, Yaitu Abdul Wahid Azad, beliau adalah salah satu pahlawan dari Tasik malaya, ikut berjuang untuk kemerdekaan Indonesia, Abdul Wahid Azad kelahiran India, banyak mengikuti perang dikala perang dunia II sebelum menetap di indonesia.

Yang menarik di video dokumenter ini, memang beliau secara teknis tidak lahir di indonesia, tapi sangat mencintai indonesia, menolak dibilang ‘asing’ hanya karena beliau pendatang, bahkan ikut peperangan dalam meraih kemerdekaan indonesia melawan belanda, jepang, nica.

Beliau adalah indonesia.

In a series of tweets on Sunday, Musk said he would produce a video proving his submarine would have been able to reach the children and in a comment directed at Unsworth, added: “Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.”

Totally out of line.

Other news links about this crap from Elon musk

• Elon Musk Calls Diver in Thai Soccer Team Rescue a Pedophile
• Hero Diver Threatens Lawsuit Against Elon Musk for Calling Him a Pedophile