Cult of Mark Pesce

Last night, our Dear Leader Mark Pesce, returned to the telly. In the interim, we could hear his hallowed voice on the radio: but to see his image is refreshing for the soul.

Whilst Mark warns us of the evils and perils of 3D Television, I do wonder if the advent of 3D telly could have permitted the transmission of the chicken pox virus to us all. We should not let our master suffer alone!

Apparently Participatory Democracy isn’t sexy – who ya gonna call to sex that mofo up? Yeah, call the Love Guru himself, his Pesceliciousness, add a little Douglas Rushkoff and – oh, baby!

Mark Pesce & Douglas Rushkoff – Making Participatory Democracy Sexy

Climate change, you have been WARNED!

Mark has a new Twitter profile pic. Is it a coincidence that it recalls another great thinker?

The great one has returned to his spiritual home to exact a terrible vengeance on celebrities who have offended Him.

The stripey one reports:

America:  I show up and weird celebrities start dying.  Coincidence?  You decide.

Celebrities running the gamut from Michael Jackson to Farrah Fawcett via Jeff Goldblum are reported dead in the wake of his jet-lag-induced fury.

The great cleansing has begun! Beware his awesome power!

In the early hours of this morning, the Convent of the Little Sisters of Pesce  (uncalced) was rocked by the news that our loving leader intends to retire the much revered Gay Stripey Jumper.  The wailing and gnashing of teeth has reached near fever pitch. Sr Marky Mark de Sade has begun to self flagellate and cannot be dissuaded from her course. Sr Tia Maria, previously engaged in knitting a replica of the Gay Stripey Jumper from the finest of Andean Yak yarn, has become catatonic and is receiving emergency psychiatric attention. Not to put to fine a cap on it, we at the Convent of the Little Sisters of Pesce are falling to pieces at the knowledge that we may never see the Gay Stripey Jumper gracing the Dear Leader’s torso again.

We at the convent know that all the decisions taken by the Dear Leader are for the best and ours is not to question His wisdom. We do, however, urge cult members to gather around us in these trying times.  I am undertaking a novena to discern whether it is the Leader’s will that the Gay Stripey Jumper should be conserved and held at the convent along with the other items of veneration in our collection. Your prayers for divine inspiration and any substantial cash donations will be gratefully received by the Convent.

Remember, only real men wear Gay Stripey Jumpers.

In true humility,

Saint Sarah Tonin of Pesce.

“Thankfully, My employer has an Ancient Shiva Terminal Server in existence.” at about 4m57s in to this marvellous video.

Mark Pesce, a former employee of Shiva, speaks to us through the tones on in the 1964 modem-in-a-wooden box.

In relation to my previous post on His Holiness Mark Pesce being transmitted via Twitter: via a 300 baud modem the timing is as follows:

194.6Mb (one week of Mark Pesce on the telly, ABC1 HD quality, not compressed) would take 5,426,938 seconds to transmit. This is 62.811 days.

Compared to Twitter, a so-called “modern” technology taking 607.5 days, we can see that 1964 technology and Shiva brilliance is nearly an order of magnitude better.

According to wikipedia, Mark was born in 1962.

It is therefore obvious (via QED) that Mark is a child prodigy. And worth of great-leader status.

stephenconroy Dear Social Media Wankers, Twitter is not “the future of television”. The sooner Hale-Bopp returns and you morons mass-suicide, the better.

The mixture of filth, twitter, television and the echo of a Cult of the Past is a siren call to the world. And worthy of analysis from we Cult Members.

We need to do some maths.

A “frame” of TV at high definition digital TV in Australia is about 720p. At 16:9, this is 720 pixels x 405 pixels. At 32 bits per pixel, each pixel is 4 bytes. Each frame takes 1.11Mb, uncompressed.

A cult leader should be transmitted uncompressed. The image of our dear digital revolution cult leader should not be damaged nor altered in any way.

At a frame-rate of 25 frames per second, this results in each minute of TV of our dear leader taking 27.8Mb

It is estimated that the leader is on television for 7 minutes per week. This is 194.6Mb per week.

To transmit the 194.6Mb would take 1,458,000 tweets. As there is an API limit of 100 tweets per hour, a total of 14,580 hours would be required to transmit the data.

This is 607.5 days. Or, 1.66 years.

Q.E.D. Twitter cannot replace, not is Television.

@stephenconroy is correct in a twisted fashion. I wonder if he wants to join the #CultOfMarkPesce. stephen.conroy.pesce, this is your siren call.

The leader recently presented at the ConnectingUp Conference in Sydney and I as a devout follower was lucky enough to witness his genius. For those who weren’t holding the golden ticket, here is the audio of his sermon. His sermon is also available here

The storytelling by the Leader is tres inspiring and his message, in short, was ‘It can’t be controlled’. Leader – you were controlling me for those 30 minutes.  Key phrases I hastily scribbled down included “the rules have changed”, “hyper-intelligence; pooling of learning”, “entire nature of power has changed”, “cloud = hyper-connection”, “the cloud is organic in growth”, “the cloud can become a storm if pushed” and so on.

While his choice of a ‘genius’ brown jacket over casual top was good, I was hoping for a jumper. Perhaps even a stripy jumper. No matter, there’s always next week’s New Inventors…sidetracked, back to his sermon.

Leader’s assertion was that the move from stagnant, one-way control to organic and community-based engagement and empowerment is already here. Organisations and indeed mainstream media outlets holding onto the old ‘tower of power’, who seek to control what is said about them from spokespeople and ‘approved’ message sticks, need to reassess the way they engage. Clouds of hyper-communities with common interests and common goals are fast becoming the balance of power. The Clouds are organically evolving to continually share information and opinion, with influence coming from 360 degrees and not simply from the top. The Cloud is constantly reforming, and one cannot simply ‘remove’ a leader to mitigate agitators as the Cloud will replace the lost voice with 5 or so new members to take their place. And, once the Cloud is empowered with a single-minded proposition, an issue which seeks attention, the Cloud becomes a storm of action….

Phew… best 30 minutes of my trip to Sydney right there.

On many occasions our Dear Leader has called upon us to embrace not only his Pesceness, but also the collective madness of anarcho-syndicalism. Listen to His wise words …

We already have a name for this small-pieces-loosely-joined form of social organization: it’s known as anarcho-syndicalism. Anarcho-Syndicalism emerged from the labor movements that grew in numbers and power toward the end of the 19th century. Its basic idea is simply that people will choose to cooperate more often than they choose to compete, and this cooperation can form the basis for a social, political and economic contract wherein the people manage themselves.

A system with no hierarchy, no bosses, no secrets, no politics. (Well, maybe that last one is asking too much.) Anarcho-syndicalism takes as a given that all men are created equal, and therefore each have a say in what they choose to do.

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