I Was Watching TV News and then I Changed the Channel to my PBS Passport... Since I Donated Money to PBS they Unlocked My Ability to Watch Any PBS Show at any Time...

So I'm watching a tourism show about visiting the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and we're going to some of the buildings I've never been to... You know, All those people on TV news are just going to have to get along without me being informed... Endless horrible stuff is not really a lot of fun. 

Quite often when I'm reading social media on the internet I encounter this concept called "Doom Scrolling" - what they say happens is it you read horrible content on social media and it makes you want to read more and more and more and you are trapped in a nightmare world... In fact, what they are describing is watching television news channels... Not the internet... But it's fun to shout "Danger Danger" about any new technology... Remember when they said that rock music was the work of the devil? (they said that in the 1950s)

For example: the Faceborg algorithm delivers posts that are very likely to agree with your own opinion about everything... They have determined that people who see posts that say: "Gee, I'm Really Smart and Everyone Agrees with Me." Will stay on Faceborg longer... And so they can deliver more advertisements... And make more money... Because the business model is selling eyeballs to advertisers. 

But TV news is based on the belief that in our primitive caveman brain... We still are programmed to pay attention when somebody shouts: Danger Danger!" Because 10,000 years ago, when we were living in caves... The people that woke up and defended themselves whenever the lookout shouted Danger Danger... survived and had children... Darwin... And we are those children... 

This is the fundamental business model of Fox News... And also... CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC... It's not the business model of C-SPAN... Or PBS news... 

I also like to play with the computer art programs... When I'm designing, I can't see the clock... And so I don't know what time of day it is... And I can also put on some music... I go off into another world! Into the zone...

Shadows and highlights processing on a photo of people...