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Category: technology

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desperately seeking sounds

April 7, 2021

After nearly two years of working on an audio drama, I’ve come to wonder if I should have spent more time thinking about the audio part and less on the dr...

art/design/technology/work

playhouse

November 24, 2019

Nearly two years ago, for the birthday of our oldest, I made a playhouse. I designed it using Sketchup, which allowed me to adjust the sizing and layout, while ...

ideas/movies & television/technology

A Long View on YouTube

June 26, 2019

Edit Jan 1, 2021: Like the proverbial elephant, YouTube is so big that I was standing in one corner (the arts) and mistaking it for the whole thing. The right m...

art/movies & television/power/technology

War Games, Fail-Safe, Dr. Strangelove

April 7, 2018

In 1998, there were two movies about a natural catastrophe: Armageddon & Deep Impact. In 2006, there were two movies about magicians living outside the real...

ideas/power/technology

a big lie

January 31, 2018

most car commercials are really public road commercials

business/people/power/technology

Facebook is made out of…

January 14, 2018

very good critics point out that Facebook is engineered to be addictive. but they seldom recognize that the pleasure being meted out is OTHER PEOPLE. for exampl...

ideas/people/power/technology

Wheels of fortune

May 19, 2017

Smart people become irrational around technology. We want absolutes, purity and simple answers; whether it’s being anti-GMO or bullish on AI, the impulse ...

business/people/power/technology

Facebook users deserve all their feels.

January 7, 2017

Facebook is software for managing your feelings. It promises to be a tool for strengthening relationships – primarily, as a replacement for email – but it is en...

mental illness/people/power/technology

tired of winning

December 10, 2016

David Segal reviewing Norman Ohler’s Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany: By 1944, the doctor had trouble finding veins to shoot. Then, as the Allies bombed th...

journalism/people/power/technology

China 2016, USA 2020

November 18, 2016

Christina Xu: Contrary to popular sentiment in the US, Chinese readers don’t blindly trust the state-run media. Rather, they distrust it so much that they don’t...

mental illness/power/technology

the hyperreality TV star who became president

November 16, 2016

From a masterful polemic by Brian Phillips: Authoritarianism wants to convince its supporters that nothing is true, that the whole machinery of truth is an into...

business/ideas/journalism/people/power/technology

keeping the hamsters alive: clickbait and the information market

July 9, 2016

google just served me up the following “news” without knowing my full identity: this appears to be their default offering for an English speaker in ...

people/technology

“what’s going on”

June 21, 2016

Virginia Heffernan: Just get back to that time where you were just tripping out in college and wondering what else is out there, before you buttoned up. Because...

power/technology/work

You say Rachel, I say Really?

April 4, 2016

New software, same old problem:

ideas/people/technology

Certainty is a contact sport

February 12, 2016

Nicola Twilley: The LIGO team includes a small group of people whose job is to create blind injections—bogus evidence of a gravitational wave—as a way of keepin...

business/people/power/technology

robots and secrets

January 20, 2016

From an overview of consensus by John Cassidy: Why, then, are the markets so disturbed? One possible explanation has to do with trading algorithms, which encour...

business/people/power/technology

competition

September 29, 2014

An intrepid researcher has mapped some of the microwave towers being used to conduct high-frequency-trading around the world. HFT requires competitors to use cu...

ideas/people/technology

Who let the bots out

April 17, 2014

Today I had occasion to contact roughly two dozen friends via the message or chat tool on Facebook. When first contacted, two of them replied by asking if I was...

art/business/technology/work

The new co-viewing. Same as the old.

June 2, 2012

Television sets often determine the layout of the furniture in communal rooms. Their position in the typical American home is a clear testament to their social ...

art/ideas/technology/work

Scrapbooks made for sharing

April 15, 2012

From the Wikipedia entry on the origins of the scrapbook in the 15th century and their ongoing function as self-portraits: From the standpoint of the psychology...

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