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The Week In Pictures: Whistleblower Edition
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: WHISTLEBLOWER EDITION
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/the-week-in-pictures-whistleblower-edition.php
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I was doing a daily quiz the other day from my Blogger blog and one of the questions was "Who invented the word 'meme'?" From Wiki:
"The word meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene as an attempt to explain the way cultural information spreads; the concept of the Internet meme was first proposed by Mike Godwin in the June 1993 issue of Wired.
In 2013, Dawkins characterized an Internet meme as being a meme deliberately altered by human creativity—distinguished from biological genes and his own pre-Internet concept of a meme, which involved mutation by random change and spreading through accurate replication as in Darwinian selection. Dawkins explained that Internet memes are thus a "hijacking of the original idea", the very idea of a meme having mutated and evolved in this new direction. Furthermore, Internet memes carry an additional property that ordinary memes do not: Internet memes leave a footprint in the media through which they propagate (for example, social networks) that renders them traceable and analyzable."
You may or may not have heard of Godwin, but he's the one who came up with "Godwin's Law" which in essence says that eventually any online discussion will get around to a comparison of the subject to Hitler or the Nazis. I'd say that it definitely is an immutable law, same as the laws of physics....at least it is to the left
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