This morning.
I don’t know if it’s an American thing or a LA thing. Completely MESSED UP cars perfectly parked. This one with front wheels not working and both airbags out.
????
It amuses me because they remind me of drunk people in the metro in Paris. Like, the person knows that they’re wasted, but have to behave in public so they are super quiet and tucking themselves in on a seat, being extra careful about anything, softly smiling all the time.
And they look just like this car. Hammered.
Yup, Reddit on my Nokia with dark “mode” since 2011 lol
The entire /antiwork thing fizzled, didn’t it? It did for a few reasons:
– Reddit and communities pretty much always end up as pyramids with people at the top ripe for corruption, which happened here.
– The bigger an online community is, the stronger “recreational outrage” is. That is, people lash out with memes and extreme points of view, building nothing, not moving the conversation to a more interesting angle, only providing entertainment with a sprinkle of politics and a lot of ego trips.
– The sub should have been called /UBIorGTFO
The future of work is UBI, as I argued about it. From there, so many good things would spawn. For that, you need to channel that frustration and outrage into valid, stable solutions.
Let’s go!
We live in world where people have phones with 16 gigs of ram, 8 CPUs and who will, with this device basically:
– fidget with the interface
– take calls, answer text messages
– let those billions of notifications pill up everywhere.
And that’s mostly it.
I swear as a nerd knowing what’s going on inside those machines, the waste of technology is at an absolute all time high right now. Remember climate change? Consuming less and all that?
I started to add some in my salads a few months ago. I didn’t have any for a few days. I’m not going to say that I was trembling, I’m not going to say that.
But I was trembling.
It’s back to normal now. *pushes avocado off teaspoon*
Is Old Music Killing New Music? – by Ted Gioia (substack.com)
The 200 most popular new tracks now regularly account for less than 5 percent of total streams. That rate was twice as high just three years ago. The mix of songs actually purchased by consumers is even more tilted toward older music. The current list of most-downloaded tracks on iTunes is filled with the names of bands from the previous century, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Police.
There’s good music every decade but it’s true that the 70s/80s/90s are kind of peak quality because it was in those decades that the “music industry” was the most powerful and cared about music, developing artists, sounds, etc.
The industry cared because music in those decades music was like video game skins today: shit was hot and lucrative as hell. They would gamble on a new artist and immediately sold out his/her/their albums.
Now? Music executives have to make up pointless numbers with streams, which are a useless metric. The “industry” doesn’t exist much or let’s just say that music is everywhere and doesn’t really need a strong business arm like before. Artists sell on different platforms, people consume from free to subscription-based to buying vinyls. Whatever.
But yeah, a 4mn song with four chords or more, a bridge, a duet of voices and about 20 different instruments, has a lot more leg than a 2mn beat on a 15s loop with one high pitched chopped voice sample and one auto-tuned line. skrrt.
I can explain, but you might need to sit down for a few hours.
Dear future,
Time doesn’t exist etc. I just try to remember. Last year at the same moment, we didn’t have vaccines. We only knew that scientists were onto something and that it would be ready soon. Maybe.
12 months later and 600 gazillion vaccine doses distributed, uh, it’s still a fucking mess. Infection rates are through the roof and deaths are following.
It’s hard to go from no hope to hope to reality check.
Meanwhile the US government feels like it’s made of NPCs, women might really lose their fundamental abortion rights, France is getting steamrolled by heavy right wing ideologies in an election year and Russia is Russia-ing. WHEW.
I’ll be soaking up the sun outside. Cheers,
The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle.
I went back to using hot water bottles, or hot bottle waters like I used to mess up.
They are the best. I use one with a nice, soft, fluffy fur cover. Knee is sore due to fade away turn around jumpers? 10mn on said knee, while moving it, and it’s back to normal. Neck hurts from typing? Five minutes of hot water bottle rolling between my shoulders and I feel much better. Cold feet? No more cold feet. Cold bed? No, it’s not now. Feel like needing a warm hug in this panny? There it is.
Heated water warms your blood up and said warmed blood circulates all over your body making you warmer naturally without getting forced dry, hot air on your delicate skin.
It’s awesome. Renewable. Cheap. It should be in every single home because it’s perfection.
(not really because I’m eating)
ANYWAY. About technology.
It’s not about centralized VS decentralized. Those things happen, for good and bad reasons and give us good and bad results. They change. They happen.
What matters is INTEROPERABILITY. Interop is needed now, in the past and in the future. Everywhere. And sometimes, often, interop doesn’t exist.
Interop. Focus on interop, my dear software companies.
Phil Jackson the famous Bulls coach, narrates in his books what happens when you win it all, after beating every single team all year long, all the way to the finals (he did it eleven times):
– 24 to 48 hours of partying
– ???
– Go back to practice
I like to remind myself of that when things are hard.
It’s old ass eastern philosophy I guess but it’s still pretty much on point.
The journey is quite important, if not everything.